"Check City Bus Routes in Advance"... Incheon City to Revise Routes Starting from the 31st of This Month

Built Route Restructuring Webpage on City Website
Distributed Guidebook to All Households

Incheon City Bus Route Reorganization Service Report Meeting Held in July This Year [Photo provided by Incheon City]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Incheon City is conducting various promotional activities to minimize confusion among citizens ahead of the city bus route reorganization scheduled for the 31st.

First, the revised bus routes can be checked on the 'City Bus Route Reorganization Webpage' established on the city’s official website last June. Detailed information by route, including operation details, route maps, and stops, as well as videos of citizen briefings held so far and submitted citizen opinions, are also available.

The city has also attached stickers inside bus vehicles with information about route maintenance, changes, or discontinuations so that passengers can easily identify whether the route of the vehicle they are using has been reorganized.

At bus stop shelters and signboards, notices have been posted to inform passengers of changes by stopping routes (stopping, newly stopping, or not stopping routes). Citizens can easily access the route reorganization homepage on their smartphones via QR codes on the notices.

For information-vulnerable groups such as elderly people who are not familiar with the internet, route guidebooks divided into seven zones will be distributed to all households within the year.

Additionally, a route guidebook containing all operating routes and all stops throughout Incheon will be produced and distributed to public institutions, welfare facilities, middle and high schools, apartment management offices, large shopping centers, and other multi-use facilities.

From mid-month, promotional banners about the route reorganization will be posted on major city roads and densely populated areas. Banners in English, Chinese, Russian, and Vietnamese will be produced and displayed in areas with a high concentration of foreign residents.

Furthermore, the city plans to focus its promotional efforts on the route reorganization through subway platform electronic displays, local cable TV and radio campaigns, city bus apps, e-Eum card apps, various notices, and call waiting ringbacks in the transportation department.

Meanwhile, starting from the 31st of this month, the Incheon city bus route system will be newly reorganized.

Out of 197 routes, only 90 routes (43.9%) will remain unchanged, 83 routes will be modified, and 24 routes will be discontinued. Additionally, 32 new routes will be established, bringing the total number of routes to 205.

This large-scale route reorganization is the first major overhaul in four and a half years since the full reorganization aligned with the opening of Incheon Subway Line 2 in July 2016.

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