Sie hören regelmäßig auf, Leute abzuholen, weil der Bus voll ist und sie eine Stunde auf den nächsten Bus warten müssen, der möglicherweise auch zu voll ist!
Wenn eine Buslinie die Menschen aufgrund von begrenztem Platz regelmäßig ablehnt, macht es keinen Sinn, dass sie die Reisen zu diesem Zeitpunkt nicht verdoppeln.
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Von alex_cy
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I have been told by the colleague working in the sector that there are not enough bus drivers. And it is not possible to bring more bus drivers from abroad (for example from the EU) because there is an artificial limitation: a group of interest was able to write the regulation, enforcing a „every driver must live for a year in Cyprus before driving buses in Cyprus“. And there is no way to bring a bus driver to Cyprus, working in the office for a year, and then finally moving to drive buses as initially expected.
Hey, I am a traffic planner (not in Cyprus). Usually bus routes are contracted with a certain number of buses and a certain time table. The bus company that ultimatively gets the job then has to fulfill the contract. If the need is higher than thought, you can either a) live with it until the concession for the route ends, b) try and fix it. But for fixing it you need to have enough buses, enough drivers and the government or whoever hired the bus company will most likely have to pay lots of money since they want more from the bus company than in the original contract.
Bus drivers are sparse atm everywhere in Europe. The buses have to be checked upon regularly and so buses or garage personnel can be sparse aswell. Extra fuel has to be bought and paid for. The distribution of buses, their intervals, the rest periods for bus drivers, their spots to have those rest periods, all this has to be re-designed and depending on the size and length of an operation that can be a real hassle. 🙂
Last but not least, ofc this isn’t ideal and you would like to try and fix it. But it’s not that easy that you can do it with a snap of your finger. You CAN fix it though, but it’s an expensive task because the bus company wants a lot more money for having to bring extra services beyond the contract. Which is their absolute right, it’s the fault of whoever calculated the need. So the best and most realistisch chance is to hope that when the current contract ends, in the next iteration the timetables and expected number of bus fares is improved. 🙂 hope that helps!
Not enough bus drivers. No really, we have a serious issue and the government doesn’t give a single fk cause it doesn’t affect them or their friends pockets. Imagine if they came a gave a 2000€ bus driver salary. They would fill up the empty spots in a day.
I actually called Intercity a while ago and spoke with the person responsible for their schedules to let them know of this issue and the fact that there’s no way of knowing that a bus full when waiting in subsequent stops.
He said that they are aware of the issue and that they are thinking of expanding their itinerary. I don’t recall what he said about the informing people in subsequent stops when a bus is full.
I am not a frequent user of the bus, so I don’t know uf they expanded their itinerary but it makes sense that people see this kind of service and get discouraged when it comes to using the bus.
I regret not doing it at the time, but the best course of action is to write a letter to the Ministry of Transportation and Intercity.
As a side note, some of the drivers on these things are insane. We were going from Limassol to Larnaca, people were speaking at a normal volume, and the driver goes „λλιν ησυχία σας παρακαλώ“. When we got to kamares, he messed up at a red light and started shouting and cussing out this woman driver using the most disgusting language you can imagine.
Public transport in Cyprus will be fixed when it stops being an afterthought, how buses went from being one of the most common forms of transports for locals to being barely used in 50 years, which goes against the trend in the rest of the world, really baffles me
Seize the assets of just one Russian oligarch living in Cyprus and build a train along the route of the A1/3/5 and 6.
Bicycles for transport are the way forward
1. Clean air, no co2 ommission
2. Less traffic on roads
3. Exercise, health consciousness
4. Save money 💰
Unfortunately, to be able to cycle, will need cycle trucks
Our government has money to throw on tons of cement in Nicosia CBD but proper cycling paths are non existent