The Keelung City Government today (23rd) invited national highway passenger transport operators to hold a "bento meeting" to discuss the feasibility of adding national highway passenger services to solve the problem of long waiting times for commuters. Keelung Mayor Xie Guoliang (back row right) emphasized that the city The government and the passenger transport industry must work together to solve the problem of commuters.

(Photo by reporter Yu Zhaofu)

[Reporter Yu Zhaofu/Report from Keelung] Today (23rd) the Keelung City Government invited national highway passenger transport operators to hold a "bento meeting" to discuss the feasibility of adding national highway passenger services to solve the problem of long waiting times for commuters. Keelung Mayor Xie Guoliang emphasized He emphasized that he personally called the director of the General Administration of Highways to ask for permission to allow the city government to propose flexible transportation plans such as renting tour vehicles for citizens to go home.

Today Xie Guoliang, accompanied by Director of Transportation Wang Zhenhong, discussed the current situation of people waiting for buses on national highways and the complaints from the public, and had face-to-face discussions with passenger transport operators such as Metropolitan, Capital, Fuhe, Guoguang, and Keelung. The transportation routes, the difficulties faced and the municipal government exchanged views with each other.

In the Nangang Exhibition Hall, the operators also promised to open additional trains to alleviate the problem of people waiting in line for too long.

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Xie Guoliang said that the purpose of the city government to invite the national highway passenger transport operators to discuss and discuss is to solve the problem of commuters waiting in long queues during rush hour. He felt anxious to go to the waiting scene these days.

Now for the hot stop signs on the route 1815 and 9026, additional shifts will be opened, but this still requires permission from the General Administration of Highways. He will ask the director of the General Administration of Highways to allow the city government's flexible transportation plan.

Xie Binghan, deputy general manager of Fuhe Passenger Transport, pointed out that from tomorrow (24th), from 7:00 am to 7:30 am, additional buses will be added on a regular basis, instead of departing from the starting point, they will instead depart from the Maternity and Children's Center, Leli Sanjiekou, and Changgeng There are three major hospital stop signs with a large number of commuters, and two empty cars are dispatched to evacuate them to strengthen the evacuation of people and reduce the waiting time of the public.

As for the bus station sign of Fujingtianxia Community, some seats will be reserved to transport passengers waiting to get on the bus; in addition, the last bus at Nangang Transfer Station will be extended to 8:55, so that people who get off work can rest assured to have dinner before taking the bus back Home.

Now we are striving for all route 9026 to enter the Nangang transfer station. Once the General Administration of Highway permits, 9026 and 9023A will all enter the Nangang transfer station.

Xie Guoliang said that the city government rented tour buses to take citizens home on the grounds of "emergency evacuation".

Legislator Cai Yingshi said that the city government plans to rent tour buses to take citizens from Taipei back to Keelung. This may violate the law and is difficult to promote.