Bus No.104 on Cong Hoa street, HCM City. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - HCM City has added 12 new bus routescomprising four minibus, ‘high-quality’ inner city and inter-provincialservices each.
The minibuses will run 14-19.5km on narrow streets to improve last-mileconnectivity to public transport.
They include between Ap 5 Phong Phu Residential Area in Binh Chanh district andDistrict 7, T30 Residential Area in Binh Chanh and the University of Financeand Marketing in District 7 and the Binh An Waterbus Station and Lien Phuong streetin Thu Duc city and Sai Gon Bus Station in District 1.
The high-quality services, 11-22km long, will be along the Vo Van Kiet - MaiChi Tho Highway corridor.
Three of the four inter-provincial routes will be between the Tan Phu BusStation and Tay Ninh, Tien Giang and Dong Nai provinces.
The other will run from the An Suong Bus Station to Bien Hoa city in Dong Naiprovince. These routes are not subsidised.
According to the city Department of Transport, the aim is to make publictransportation meet 15% of public travel demand by 2025 and 25% by 2030.
As many as 50-60 new routes would be started by 2025, increasing to around 75by 2030, and the number of buses would double in the next 10 years, it said.
The city now has 128 routes, including 91 subsidised ones, and nearly 2,100buses.
Every year it provides subsidies of around 1 trillion VND (43 million USD) tobus companies./.
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Bus No.104 on Cong Hoa street, HCM City. (Photo: VNA) 
