Clean, state-of-the-art buses hit Hanoi streets
VOV.VN - The first of 20 next generation buses rolled out of the BRT depots in Hanoi on December 30-31.
On December 31, Nguyen Duc Chung, chair of the Hanoi People’s Committee, is one of the first riders on a new bus departing Kim Ma Station. |
Chung says the City borrowed US$41 million from the World Bank to acquire the buses. Above, other riders aboard the bus on its maiden voyage from the Kim Ma Station. |
Chung says he has high expectations the new buses will change the face of public transport in Hanoi. |
The remaining buses will roll out at select times on January 1. Today we are reimaging the face of public transport to meet the needs of the next generation of Hanoians, says Chung. |