Future uncertain for BM and Dyna buses within new bus program

While the rest of the city is adapting to the new bus system that affects some 3700 ‘official’ buses, the futures of the older Dyna and BM vehicles that are technically still in service are now up in the air.

Due to a delay in the announcement of their new bus routes, the city’s Dyna and BM buses are unable to join their newer counterparts in servicing the city today. Instead, they’ve been left in bus limbo.

“We still don’t know what they want us to do. We don’t know the routes. There are rumors that we’ll get the suburbs, but we don’t have any specifics. They said they’d let us operate but they haven’t told us where we can operate so we don’t know if the officials have gone back on their word. We’re in a really tough situation,” one BM owner told 7Day.

However, Yangon Region authorities claim that they have set up routes for these vehicles and that bus owners who are complaining must just not be aware of the new plans. 

But a lack of information is not the only complaint that these vehicle owners have — some are having trouble convincing their drivers and conductors to operate in desolate areas at the edges of the city, not to mention that the scarcity of passengers in these areas are making it tough to produce any profits.

Right now, there are roughly between 1500 and 2000 older model Dyna and BM buses in Yangon that weren’t allowed to partake in the new bus system.

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