
Commuters complained that they had to wait for more than half an hour and were unable to get on the bus when it was full. The Tao City Transportation Bureau responded that it would adjust the frequency and increase the number of buses.
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Longtan Transfer Station officially opened on September 30, aiming to improve local transportation convenience and divert national highway passenger transport and urban buses.
Taoyuan City's Longtan Transfer Station officially opened on September 30. DPP Taoyuan mayoral candidate Huang Shijie visited the site at 6:30 a.m. to listen to complaints from commuters about not being able to wait for buses. He said that Mayor Zhang Shanzheng claimed that the transfer station would "improve Longtan's transportation convenience." However, after it was opened, problems such as peak congestion and inconvenient waiting and transfers occurred one after another. "The transfer station is not just a success if it is built well, but the key is to allow citizens to reach their destinations faster and more conveniently."
Freshmen medical students who were about to take the bus complained that they "waited for more than half an hour." A female teacher from the same school also said that she couldn't wait for the bus the day before and was afraid of being late, so she had to take a taxi instead. Citizens who wanted to take the 709 bus said that the bus was full of regular passengers and passengers queuing at the transfer station could not get on the bus. Huang Shijie requested that the city government should immediately review the routes and frequency of the 709 bus. In addition, long-distance passenger transport such as the 1820 bus should also coordinate with the operators to reserve seats at the transfer station so that the transfer function of the transfer station can be fully utilized.
"Building a transfer station only makes commuters wait longer and even make it impossible for them to get on. What kind of traffic upgrade is this?" Huang Shijie questioned that the transfer station information was also incorrect. For example, during his field survey, he found that the time information displayed on the platform was about an hour late; there was a lack of complete parking and pick-up areas and signs around the transfer station, insufficient parking space for people to pick up and drop off, and the interaction between the entry and exit of cars and motorcycles and the movement of buses, etc., all need to be improved.
Huang Shijie believes that the traffic around the transfer station has also been affected and congested. He said that the city government knew that about 700 buses enter and exit the transfer station every day. It should have made a complete plan for buses, cars, pick-up and drop-off, and pedestrian routes before it was opened, instead of asking citizens to accompany the city government in a "rolling review" after it was put into operation.
The Transportation Bureau responded that the transfer station will divert long-distance national highway passenger transport and short-distance urban bus routes, which is expected to alleviate congestion on urban arterial roads. It will continue to conduct rolling reviews to strengthen the effectiveness; starting from tomorrow (2nd), the 709 bus routes and frequency will be reconfigured, and some 709 bus frequency will be moved to 709B bus that passes through Longtan Sports Park Station and will not pass through. At Longtan Transfer Station, buses 709A and 709B will provide 55 services on weekdays; starting from the 5th, 2 tour buses will be rented during the morning peak period for transportation. The traveling route is Longtan Transfer Station-Zhongzheng Road Station-Sports Park Station-Dachang Road-Longtan Interchange-Yongning Transfer Station, increasing the transportation capacity from Longtan to Yongning Transfer Station.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The Transportation Bureau will reconfigure the 709 bus routes and frequency starting from the 2nd
Very likely · Within days
Starting from the morning of the 5th, 2 tour buses will be rented for transportation during peak hours.
Very likely · Within days

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