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SHANGHAI has added 100 long-haul buses to serve this year's Spring Festival travel peak. The city's urban transport authority kicked off the plan yesterday and ordered several major local long-haul bus companies to initiate the service.
The extra 100 buses yesterday carried passengers bound for Hubei, Shandong, Jiangxi, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. The routes from Shanghai to those places are the busiest during the travel peak and the capacity rarely fits the demand.
The 100 buses set out from three of the city's major long-haul bus stations — Shanghai Long Distance Bus Station, Shanghai long distance bus south station and Shanghai Bashi Long Distance Hutai Road Station.
The city's transport authority also prepared another 50 long-haul buses for the possible travel peak today, since the 100 added buses left the city yesterday to transport passengers to other provinces.
The city's long-distance bus stations have been offering 3,800 shuttles a day on average to transport passengers out of the city during the first 10 days of the Spring Festival travel peak, which began on February 3.
The city has sold more than 400,000 bus tickets from Monday. Tickets for trips heading to Hubei, Shandong and Anhui provinces, for this Saturday are almost all sold out.
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