"Get on the bus when you go out, it's convenient to go anywhere, and the car is free, so why not relax!" At 9:41 a.m. on February 8 (the eighth day of the first lunar month), Xu Junjiang, who lives in the upstream community of Suci Street in Dongpo District, and his wife Yang Shurong took the No. 66 bus at the entrance of the community to go to relatives' homes to visit the New Year, and the old two chatted while enjoying the scenery along the way, 4 kilometers away, 7 stops, 14 minutes, and soon arrived at the destination.
On January 30, the day before the Chinese New Year's Eve, the Municipal Transportation Bureau issued a notice to the public that from 0:00 on January 31 to 24:00 on February 15, 60 bus lines operating in the downtown area of our city (Dongpo District, Pengshan District) and Meishan Tianfu New District will be free of charge to the public.
The people's livelihood is no small matter, and the branches and leaves are always concerned. This small "one yuan" is free, but it brings a full sense of gain to the citizens, and it is also a vivid footnote of the city's practice of "everything for the good of Meishan" to "everything for the good of the people of Meishan".
Citizen: Surprise! Spring Festival free car to go to the New Year
"In previous years, driving to the New Year, often encountered traffic jams, looking for parking spaces is also very troublesome, this year simply take the bus, anyway the time is almost the same, did not expect to encounter free, it is a surprise!" Xu Junjiang said.
It is reported that since the opening of operation at the end of November last year, the No. 66 bus has narrowed the spatial distance between Dongpeng and Peng, and this year it has become the preferred means of transportation for residents of the two places to visit relatives and friends during the Spring Festival.
Passenger Xu Junjiang Yang Shurong and his wife
"We go to the relatives' homes in Pengshan District to pay respects to the New Year, and it is most convenient to take The 66 Road." At 10:17 a.m. on the same day, Wang Guoping, a villager in Sanjiang Village, Taihe Town, Dongpo District, and his wife sat on the bus with gifts and got off at Fengming Park Station 10 minutes later.
"Before, we didn't have a bus there, so we had to walk two kilometers to Zhenjiang to take the No. 17 bus to Meishan, and we could only drive to Pengshan." Wang Guoping said that now that the bus is connected, it is very convenient to go out and walk a few steps to take the car, "I did not expect that the first time I took the bus, I met it for free, although the benefits were small, but it gave us full of touch, and we must give the government praise." ”
Mr. and Mrs. Wang Guoping
According to statistics, thanks to this initiative to benefit the people, this year's Spring Festival 7-day holiday, a total of more than 600,000 Meishan people travel by bus, "do not drive in the New Year, take the bus in the New Year" has become a new trend for Meishan people to spend the Spring Festival.
Driver: Warm! The bus is full of warmth
"During the Spring Festival, the bus is free, no need to swipe the card!" Recently, this is the 66 bus driver Liu Yonghao most often said a sentence, "The first day of free said the most, almost every time I go to a station, I have to remind the passengers on the bus, many people will be surprised to say 'Wow, there are so good things', this feeling is very good, a small dollar free, so that the atmosphere in the whole bus is warm and melting." ”
Liu Yonghao, bus driver of No. 66
At 10:38 a.m., the bus arrived at the terminal station Pengshan North Station, and Liu Yonghao reminded the passengers as usual: "It is raining, the road is a little slippery, please pay attention to safety when you get off the bus!" Subsequently, he took advantage of the interval between shifts to eat an "early" lunch, and at 11 o'clock, he drove the bus to Penglai Square in Dongpo District on time, and he had to run 3 or 4 times a day.
Passengers at Pengshan Passenger Transport Center prepare to board the bus
"This year is the fourth Spring Festival I spent on the bus after I came to Meishan, during the Spring Festival, many passengers will say 'Happy New Year' to me when they get on the bus!" Compared with previous years, this Spring Festival has made me feel more warm because of the 'free bus'. Liu Yonghao, 31 years old this year, is a Zigong person, and in 2018, Meishan was recruited to become a bus driver, in his view, although he could not go home for the New Year, he could exchange his post for everyone's safe travel, which was worth it.
Department: Benefiting the people! Everything concerns thousands of households
According to statistics, in the seven days of the Spring Festival, the bus passenger flow in Dongpo District, Pengshan District and Meishan Tianfu New Area totaled about 688,000 passengers, an increase of about 20% over the same period in 2021. Since the free bus ride period will last until February 15, it is expected that during the free ride period, the average daily passenger flow will exceed 100,000 people, effectively enhancing the enthusiasm of citizens to travel by bus, and also playing a good role in promoting green and low-carbon travel.
Meishan East Station Bus Station
In fact, the free bus during the Spring Festival is just a vivid practice of our city adhering to the principle of "everything for the good of Meishan", concentrating on quality and building a high-quality emerging city in the Chengdu metropolitan area.
The second session of the Fifth Municipal People's Congress held on January 11 proposed that the city should grasp ten major events in 2022: start the construction of the S5 line of the urban railway; start the construction of the Meishan Campus of Sichuan University; start the three-year action of urban transformation and upgrading, promote the organic renewal of the city, and continue to increase the transformation of old residential areas; do a good job of "one old and one small" work, improve the quality of basic old-age services at home and in the community, and do a good job in infant and child care services for children under three years old; build 20 new (continued) public schools, create 1 third-class hospital, 2 Three B Hospitals... This piece of, a pile of people's livelihood improvement of the big and small things, related to the life of every Meishan person, they can see, touch, experience, I believe that under the steady advancement of these facts, the sense of gain and happiness of the citizens will be further improved.
Meishan Daily all-media reporter Yang Peng Chen Wenjun
Cartography | Meishan Daily all-media reporter Li Yan
【Source: Meishan Daily】