How far is Nansha from Tianhe?

1999, 12 vehicles; March 20051vehicle; In 2008, 6 1 vehicle; At 20 10, 1 14 vehicles; 20 1 1 year, 160 vehicles. In the past 12 years, the number of buses in Nansha has increased by more than ten times.

"The core issue is loss," said a traffic manager who asked not to be named. Nansha bus has been at a loss since its operation.

As for waterways, it is understood that Nansha Passenger Port, which was operated in the 1990s due to the development of "Little Nansha" (Nansha Economic and Technological Development Zone), only retained two direct flights to Hong Kong, and the remaining three voyages merged with Lianhua Port. "Last year, we lost tens of millions," said an insider of Nansha Shipping. So is the subway.

The direct reason for the loss of public transport enterprises is the lack of people flow.

In contrast, in March this year, Nansha was included in the national "Twelfth Five-Year Plan". This puts forward new requirements for the traffic pattern of this small town on the Lingdingyang River with an area of 527.65 square kilometers and a permanent population of 270,000.

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Public transport: loss

Nansha driver: "The last bus at Haizhu Bus Terminal 19: 30 leaves, and it is empty until Wanqingsha."

Why does it take three hours to get to Guangzhou from Nansha?

On February 24th this year, during the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress, representatives of Nansha Municipal People's Congress directly talked to Xian Xiongwei, director of the Municipal Communications Commission, and public transportation was directly put on the agenda of government departments. On March 3 1 day, one month after the question meeting, Nansha announced the Work Plan for Improving the Traffic Environment in Nansha District, and the total number of inter-regional traffic and buses was significantly improved compared with before.

Four times a day * * * carrying passengers 1 1 person.

At present, there are three bus lines from Nansha to Guangzhou, which idle all the year round except holidays, and only one or two passengers on the bus are normal.

"The last bus at Haizhu Bus Terminal leaves at 19: 30. When it is my turn to drive this car, it is always empty. " Master Zhang, the bus driver, said that he had run a lot of empty buses since the Haizhu Bus Terminal, Nansha Wanqingsha, opened a cross-regional passenger bus in March.

This line began with the promulgation of the Work Plan for Improving the Traffic and Travel Environment in Nansha. At the same time, another newly opened line is Jiaomen subway station-Guangzhou South Station Line. Together with the line from Yuexiu South Station to Million Kwai Garden, which has been in operation since 2006, there are three bus lines from Nansha to Guangzhou, which run every hour. Fares range from 12 yuan to 25 yuan.

From the afternoon of May 16 to the evening, our reporter took two newly opened urban special lines respectively, and found that there was only one reporter when there were the least passengers.

At 4 pm that day, 15, Guangzhou South Railway Station-Jiaomen bus stop sign line. When I got on the bus, in addition to the Southern Reporter, there was a passenger who went from Jiangmen to Nansha to visit his son. At 5 pm that day, the reporter got on the bus from Jiaomen Bus Station and returned to Guangzhou. There are only 1 passengers on the bus.

In the afternoon, another group of reporters tried to take the Wanqingsha Line, namely Haizhu Bus Terminal. At 4: 30 in the afternoon, I got on the bus from Haizhu Bus Terminal, and there were six passengers on the bus. At 6 o'clock in the evening, Du Nan reporter got on the bus from Wanqingsha Park and returned to Guangzhou. There are only two passengers in the whole journey.

In other words, these two buses run between Guangzhou and Nansha four times a day, totaling 1 1 person-time.

This year's bus subsidy is the highest in history.

Fu Shuo, the driver of Wanqingsha Line, always has an empty train in the morning and evening shifts on weekdays. He drives twice a day. At most, there are thirty or forty passengers a day, and there are relatively more passengers on holidays.

According to the data of Haizhu Bus Terminal, there are 635 people boarding Nansha Line from Haizhu Bus Terminal since April, 740 people since May, and 337 people last week alone. The main reason for the increase in the number of students compared with last month is that the line implemented a "half-price discount" for students after May Day.

Master Zhang, the driver of Wanqingsha Line, said that the line is equipped with four cars, eight trips a day on weekdays and three trips to and from each car on holidays, with a one-way trip of 67 kilometers. The round-trip gas fare is 250 yuan. Drivers have a day off every two days and take vacations in shifts. The proportion of people and vehicles is 2 vehicles and 3 drivers, and this line is equipped with 6 drivers. Master Zhang's monthly income is about 4,000 yuan, which is calculated according to working hours, mileage, shifts and overtime hours, and is not linked to income.

A person familiar with the bus operation in Nansha District said that the finance of Nansha District subsidized 22 million yuan for Nansha bus this year, but according to the current density of 24 bus lines, 50 taxis and 3 inter-regional passenger lines in Nansha, the loss was at least 35 million yuan. He said that at least 20 passengers per class can basically guarantee the cost recovery. At present, the operating conditions are worrying.

The head of Nansha Bus Company, a transportation group interviewed by the media, said that in order to vigorously develop Nansha Bus, Nansha Bus is expected to lose 40 million yuan this year, while the government financial subsidy is only 22 million yuan. The person in charge said that of the 22 million, 570,000 were put into taxis, 3.5 million were put into inter-regional special lines, and 1.793 million were supplemented by buses in the region. The subsidy is seriously insufficient, and the actual loss is greater than last year.

People familiar with the bus operation in Nansha District said that Nansha Bus received a subsidy of 5 million yuan the year before, and last year 1 1 10,000 yuan. This year, the bus subsidy is the highest in history, reaching 22 million yuan. However, in recent years, subsidies can not completely fill the gap of losses. The loss this year is at least130,000 yuan.

Nevertheless, the relevant person of Nansha District Transportation Bureau said that the District Transportation Bureau decided to halve the weekend ticket price of students at Haizhu Bus Terminal-Wanqingsha Line, hoping to attract passengers through "price reduction" to minimize operating losses.

The financial subsidy is 22 million.

Taxi 570 thousand

Cross-regional special line 3.5 million

There are 6,543,800+079,300 buses in the jurisdiction.

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Shuttle: robbing passengers

White-collar workers in Nansha: "The buses are irregular and the interval is long. There is not even a bus shelter in front of the company. Who wants to sit in the sun and get wet? "

Ms. Chen, who often travels between Nansha Company and Guangzhou City, doesn't care much about the development of public transportation in Nansha. She works in a large enterprise in Huangge Motor City. "The company has a complete shuttle bus. If you want to go home or shop in the city, you can take the shuttle bus after work. " In addition to working days, the company also has overtime buses for holidays. During commuting hours, the company will also arrange for CMB to pick up employees at the subway station.

There are shuttle buses for industrial workers to and from work.

According to the work plan of improving the traffic environment in Nansha, Haizhu Bus Terminal-Nansha Line is a special line for visiting relatives at work, and South Station-Wanqingsha Line is a bus express line for taking high-speed rail and rail transit. Judging from the current operation, there seems to be a big gap between the simulation preset and the actual demand.

Nansha currently has a permanent population of 270,000, of which 6.5438+0.5 million are local residents of Nansha. The main population includes three categories: locals, industrial workers and tourists. According to the simulation presupposition, the groups most in need of transportation between Nansha and Guangzhou should be tourists and industrial workers. However, the Southern Reporter's investigation found that Toyota, Longxuedao Shipyard and other worker-intensive industrial units have special shuttle bus teams to pick up and drop off employees to and from work.

Take this large enterprise where Ms. Chen is located as an example. According to the relevant person in charge, at present, the company has about 7,000 employees, 95% of whom commute from the company, and the shuttle bus runs about 180 times a day, of which 50% commute to Nansha and the company, 10% commute to Panyu and the company, and 40% commute to Guangzhou and the company.

On May 18, Nandu reporter observed on the spot that the enterprise has about 60 bus lines, and each line uses 45 or more buses. The shuttle bus goes from Nansha to all districts in the city. There are several lines in each district, and each line has one or three stopovers. For example, Tianhe District has many routes leading to the Olympic Sports Center, the sports center Baifu Square, Tangxia and so on.

There are also civil servants working in Nansha who need to rely on shuttle buses to travel. According to the data, the Nansha district government purchased the commuter bus service twice last year, and the annual expenditure reached 6.3 million yuan.

The subway has passed and the bus operation has shrunk.

Ms. Huang (anonymous) also doesn't want to travel by bus. She is the manager of an enterprise in Huangge, who lives in Panyu. "Although she spends a week in 300 yuan and drives through different exits, the daily round-trip fare varies from 6 yuan to 10 yuan", she still chooses to drive a private car to work every day. Irregular, long interval, the station at the gate of the company doesn't even have a bus shelter. "Who wants to take a bus in the sun and rain?"

In 2007, Metro Line 4 entered Nansha, which filled another gap in public transportation in Nansha. When it was opened, the passenger flow was about 40,000-50,000. At present, the average daily passenger flow is about 1.85 million. The staff of a bus system enterprise said that after the opening of the subway, some bus lines shrank seriously and eventually disappeared.

On June 16, Ms. Li, a resident of Wanqingsha, copied the bus time in front of the new stop sign of Wanqingsha Park. "Not many people know this route," Ms. Li said. Residents of Wanqingsha used to take the bus to Panyu Shiqiao and then transfer to the urban area by subway.

Shuttle bus, subway and travel inertia make a large number of people not choose public transportation as a means of transportation between Nansha and Guangzhou. It is almost foreseeable that the newly opened two cross-regional bus lines will be given a cold shoulder.

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Ferry: passing passengers

Port driver: "The attendance rate is less than half on weekdays, and we have been losing money."

According to Mr. Huang, a Hong Kong businessman, except for the newly built subway, the traffic in Nansha has not changed much compared with five years ago. Five years ago, he started to run a jewelry factory in Panyu. At that time, ferries to and from Nansha and Hong Kong were all direct flights. In recent years, they merged with Lianhuashan Port, leaving only two direct flights. "In fact, Nansha Port has reduced the number of flights."

Hong Kong lowers ferry prices to improve competitiveness

Nansha Passenger Port has been in operation since 1992. At present, it takes about 90 minutes from Nansha to China Port City Pier and Hong Kong Island Pier, and there are 10 flights every day, while there is only one flight from Nansha Port to Hong Kong Airport every day. Since last year, Nansha Passenger Port has increased flights to Macau, with one flight every day on Saturday and Sunday, and the one-way driving time is 80 minutes.

However, the staff said that there are very few passengers on the flight to Macao, and it is often the case that a ship has only a few passengers. Flights will be temporarily grounded this Saturday and Sunday, and the company may apply for grounding flights to Macau.

A person familiar with Nansha Passenger Port said that the Nansha Port Line has been in a state of loss since the operation of 1992. When it first sailed, there were only a few hundred thousand passengers a year. By 1998, the passenger flow reached 890,000, and then it kept shrinking. 20 10, the passenger flow is only 360,000. The source said that the Nansha-Macao route was opened in May last year, and the Hong Kong-Macao line lost tens of millions of yuan last year. The passenger flow is mainly from Hong Kong to Panyu for business. "Now, many passengers are transferred to buses, such as buses in Clifford and Country Garden." The person said that the bus price is 70 yuan and the ferry fare is 140 yuan, so there is no advantage in price.

On May 22nd, Southern Reporter took the ferry 1 1 from Nansha to China Port City Wharf, with about eighty or ninety passengers on board. Mr. Yuan, the flight attendant, said that the most frequent holidays are May Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day and so on. One trip can carry 300 people, and the attendance rate is 890%. On weekdays, the passenger volume is about 100, and the attendance rate is less than half. He said that in the early years, there were more people by boat than now, and now there are more long-distance buses, which has increased the pressure of ferry competition, so it merged with Lianhuashan Port Ferry to carry passengers.

"In order to improve competitiveness, the ferry fare from Lianhuashan Port to Hong Kong has dropped by tens of yuan compared with the past. Now the fare is lower than that of 200 yuan, and the fare from Nansha Port to Hongkong is temporarily maintained at 140 yuan. Mr. Yuan said that a ship must have at least 200 passengers to recover the fuel cost. We have been losing money. "

I would rather be in a hurry than spend the night in Nansha.

"Nansha can't even keep tourists who come to play golf." A member of Nansha Golf Club said. Nansha Golf Club, completed on 1999, is located in the center of Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao Triangle, only 5 minutes' drive from Nansha Port. However, this person said that many golfers usually stay in Nansha for about five hours and then leave. The general itinerary of golfers who come to Nansha Passenger Port by ferry from Hong Kong Island is: Hong Kong and Macao Passenger Terminal-Nansha Passenger Port-Golf Club Shuttle-Lunch-Playing-Leaving.

"There is no entertainment in Nansha, foreigners in food stalls can't get used to it, the level of entertainment venues can't keep up, and foreigners feel unsafe." He said that after playing golf, these people would rather go to Shenzhen, Zhuhai or return to Hong Kong than spend the night in Nansha.

This person also said that at present, Nansha Waterway is mainly Humen Ferry and Nansha Passenger Port, Humen Ferry is mainly freight, and Nansha Passenger Port is mainly Hong Kong and Macao passengers, but both of them are basically losing money.

A person familiar with the situation of Humen Ferry said that Humen Ferry has 1 1 ferry with an average daily load of12,000 trucks, which runs between Nansha and Humen, Dongguan. "1993 You can still pass the bus at the beginning of sailing, and then you can only pass the truck." But at present, because there is no passenger ship between Nansha and Humen, about 200 individual passengers come to take the freighter every day. Ferry charges only 1 yuan for individual passengers, but "there are hidden dangers in the mixed loading of passengers and goods". This person suggested that the government can provide some subsidies to open a "passenger ship" to meet the demand of passenger ferries.

As for crossing Dongguan and Nansha by road through Humen Bridge, the cost is relatively high. Humen Bridge charges 40 yuan for private cars, and the bus is likely to rise to 60-80 yuan. One-way calculation, a bus can carry about 50 people at most. Even if everyone charges 5 yuan, after deducting fuel, road and bridge fees and drivers' salaries, it is almost inevitable to lose money.

"Humen Ferry has narrowed the distance between Nansha and Shenzhen," the source said. In the 1990s, when Nansha was still full of beaches, this waterway was once very important. But nowadays, even if there are huge individual travelers on holidays, most of them are industrial workers in Shatian District of Dongguan. They take the Humen ferry to Nansha, and then take the bus to the subway station. The destination is generally Guangzhou.

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Highway: expensive price

Brother Nansha: "Taking a taxi from Nansha to the surrounding cities is similar to starting from the urban area, but it is more than ten yuan more expensive than the urban area."

In the past week, 1 130 people went to Taiping via Nansha Bus Terminal, 865 people went to Luohu and 1 people went to Xinyi. Although there are shuttle buses to Nanyang and Pingnan, there were no passengers last week. According to the data of Nansha Bus Terminal, the only routes in the province starting from this station are Taiping and Luohu.

How far is Nansha, located in the geometric center of the Pearl River Delta, from the Pearl River Delta?

Drivers are willing to drive to sell tickets.

In addition to the two flights to Guangzhou, data from Nansha Bus Terminal show that there are three flights to Panyu or Luoxi, and there are shuttle buses to Taiping in Dongguan or Luohu and Huanggang in Shenzhen. There are less than ten shuttle buses from Nansha to the Pearl River Delta region, including Guangzhou, and the daily passenger flow is only two or three hundred people. Buses outside the province only go to Nanyang, Pingnan, Daoxian, Luoyang and Langzhong, and these lines do not leave every day. Passengers need to call the passenger station in advance and wait for the passenger station to contact the bus driver. If drivers are willing to drive, bus tickets outside the province can be sold.

Many Nansha residents believe that the location of the new passenger station is too south, and most of their destinations are north. If you go to Nansha Bus Terminal by car, it is equivalent to going south first and then going north, which is a long way. Therefore, they would rather take the bus to Panyu or Shiqiao Passenger Station first, and then transfer to destinations inside and outside the province. The new passenger station seems to make Nansha and the Pearl River Delta farther away.

In terms of railways, Nansha will complete the construction of Nansha Port-Shugang freight railway in 20 12. The railway starts from Heshan and ends at Longxue Island, connecting Nansha, Longxue Island and Wanqingsha Island, which will bring Panyu in Nansha closer to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and other cities. However, according to the Southern Reporter, the railway has not yet started.

Expressway, Nansha Port is the fastest way for Guangzhou to travel between Zhuhai and Zhongshan. If you drive from Guangzhou to Nansha, you will pass the 13 toll station. First-class car (car) full toll in 40 yuan (one way, the same below), second-class car in 60 yuan, third-class car in 80 yuan.

Local citizens' travel habits turned to Panyu.

Behind the lack of public transportation between Nansha and the Pearl River Delta, there is only geographical proximity between Nansha and the Pearl River Delta cities, but there is no psychological proximity to travel.

Li Shifu, a local taxi driver in Nansha, said that driving to various cities in eastern Guangdong, starting from the urban area and Nansha, is almost the same distance, but it is more than ten yuan more expensive than the urban area. The main reason is the high toll of Humen Bridge. One-way 40 yuan makes the toll from Nansha to Dongguan as high as 55 yuan, from Humen to Huanggang Port in Shenzhen, 80 yuan, and from downtown to Shenzhen, it only takes 65-70 yuan.

In the Pearl River Delta cities in the west, such as Zhongshan, the road and bridge fees only need 35 yuan, but not 20 yuan in Guangzhou. However, it is more than 30 kilometers to go to the Pearl River Delta cities in the west than to leave from Guangzhou. Generally, the fuel cost of taxis is around 0.7 yuan, and it costs 20 more to go to 30 yuan than to leave from Guangzhou.

Li Shifu said that there are generally two roads to Panyu Bridge. One is via Panyu Avenue and Shawan Bridge, and the toll is 7 yuan. Second, Nansha Port is fast, which can save half an hour. The one-way fare is generally 20 yuan.

But the current situation is that most of the land, waterways and tracks passing through Nansha are "passers-by". From a small town on the edge of Lingdingyang to a beautiful family with international temperament, Nansha must consider the next step: how to retain popularity? Only in this way can "every village has access to highways" highlight its significance, and only in this way can "public transportation" be as active as Guangzhou City one day.