Lanzhou New Area will hold a hearing on urban public transportation price adjustment: a loss of 5.38 yuan per person | adjustment | operation | hearing | new area | ticket price | city | Lanzhou New Area
The Economic Development Bureau of Lanzhou New Area in Gansu Province recently announced that a hearing on the adjustment of urban bus fares in Lanzhou New Area will be held on July 28th, involving two bus fare increase plans.
On July 14th, the Lanzhou New Area portal website released a notice on holding a hearing on the adjustment of urban bus fares in Lanzhou New Area and soliciting social opinions and suggestions. The hearing on the adjustment of urban bus fares in Lanzhou New Area will be held at 9:30 am on July 28th in Room 249 of Office Building 3, Zhongchuan Business Center. If citizens have any opinions or suggestions on the adjustment of bus fares, they can contact the Price Management Department of Lanzhou New Area Economic Development Bureau, the Transportation Management Department of New Area Urban Rural Construction and Transportation Management Bureau, or the Public Transport Company of New Area Municipal Group.
The announcement disclosed the operating costs of urban public transportation in Lanzhou New Area: According to relevant data on cost supervision and audit work of the New Area Public Transportation Company from 2020 to 2022, the average annual operating cost is 57.09 million yuan, and the total annual passenger transportation is 6.27 million people; The operating cost for a single transaction is 9.10 yuan, minus a single transaction income of 2.01 yuan and a single transaction government subsidy of 1.71 yuan, resulting in a single transaction loss of 5.38 yuan.
The official hearing plan proposed in this regard is: due to factors such as long urban bus routes, low occupancy rates, low ticket prices, and large investment in various supporting facilities in Lanzhou New Area, bus operating enterprises have suffered losses for consecutive years. In order to maintain the basic operation of bus enterprises in the new area, in accordance with the principles of "public welfare can be reflected, enterprises can bear it, the people can bear it, and sustainable operation", referring to the bus ticket prices in other domestic cities, and combining with the actual development of the new area, the ticket prices of bus regional lines and urban-rural lines in the new area are now adjusted reasonably. The specific plan is as follows:
Option 1: Adjust the regional line from a 1 yuan per ticket system to a 2 yuan per ticket system; The urban-rural line has been adjusted from a 2-yuan per ticket system to a 3-yuan per ticket system.
Option 2: Adjust the regional line from a 1 yuan per ticket system to a 2 yuan per ticket system; The urban and rural line has been adjusted from a 2-yuan per ticket system to segmented billing, with a starting price of 2 yuan. For distances up to 15km, a 2-yuan per ticket system will be implemented, and for distances over 15km, the fare will increase by 1 yuan for every 5km increase.
The announcement shows that the three hearing witnesses attending this hearing are Zhang Yunbo, Deputy Researcher of Lanzhou New Area Economic Development Bureau, Tan Rong, Head of Price Management Department of Lanzhou New Area Economic Development Bureau, and Wang Jing, Head of Transportation Management Department of Lanzhou New Area Urban Construction and Transportation Bureau, as well as 24 hearing participants and 5 observers.
Lanzhou New Area is the fifth national level new area approved by the State Council in August 2012, and the first national level new area in the northwest. It is endowed with the strategic positioning of "an important economic growth pole in the northwest region, a national important industrial base, an important strategic platform for opening up to the west, and a demonstration zone for undertaking industrial transfer". The total area is 1744 square kilometers, and it is currently managed by four towns with a permanent population of 550000.
According to public data, Lanzhou New Area Urban Public Transport Co., Ltd. was founded on July 19, 2017, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lanzhou New Area Municipal Investment Management Group Co., Ltd. with a registered capital of 50 million yuan and fixed assets investment of about 300 million yuan. The company's main business operations include urban public transportation, urban-rural public transportation, taxi transportation, and automobile maintenance.