Citybus (formerly known as Citybus) was founded by Mr. Li Rixin on 1979 (the former managing director of CMB and Citybus retired at the end of February 2006). At first, only non-franchised routes were operated, including the shuttle bus service at the China-Hong Kong Ferry Terminal. Then, at 198 1, a British country bus line 62R was operated, running between City One in Sha Tin and Kowloon Tong MTR Station. Soon, we cooperated with Ocean Park to operate a shuttle bus service to and from Ocean Park. In the mid-1980s, the passenger flow between China and Hong Kong increased greatly, and Citybus launched a direct bus service between China and China and Hong Kong. This service was suspended to 200 1 because it was lost to the successor. 1985, Citybus bought a new air-conditioned Leland Olympian bus from England for direct bus service between China and Hongkong. This will lay a good foundation for the popularization of air-conditioned buses in China and Hongkong in the future. Citybus also provides contract and private bus rental services, including the service of picking up employees for China Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Company Limited. As the service level of CMB, the bus company on Hong Kong Island, was declining, Citybus immediately focused its business on Hong Kong Island, and launched a British country bus route when CMB went on strike, thus consolidating the foundation of its business on Hong Kong Island. At the same time, Citybus discussed with the Hong Kong Government to enter the franchised bus market. Finally, at 199 1, the Hong Kong government awarded Citybus a bus route of 12A, which has been cancelled by CMB for several years, and runs in the mid-levels of Hong Kong Island in China. This has transformed Citybus from a minibus company into one of the franchised bus companies in China and Hongkong in a short period of 10. After Citybus won this intermediate bus route, it immediately dispatched a new air-conditioned bus to run the route. When the Hong Kong Government decided to open tender for 26 CMB routes with 1993, Citybus successfully won the franchise. 1995, the hong kong government further reduced 14 CMB routes to allow citybus to operate directly. Since then, Citybus has officially entered Hong Kong Island, China, and expanded greatly in a few years, buying a large number of air-conditioned buses to seize a large number of original customers of CMB, and the overall passenger traffic of CMB has been shrinking. 1 September 19981When the franchise of China Bus ended, the Hong Kong Government awarded another 12 routes to Citybus, and the management rights of the remaining routes were owned by New World First Bus. Apart from providing services on Hong Kong Island, Citybus also operates bus services in other areas. For example, 1997 successfully won the right to operate more than 10 airports and bus routes in North Lantau. Nevertheless, Hong Kong Island is still the main service area of Citybus. 1999, Citybus was acquired by Stagecoach, the second largest bus company in Britain. However, on June 9th, 2003, Stage Coach did not intend to continue investing in China and Hong Kong due to the SARS epidemic in 2003 and the railway-oriented policy between China and Hong Kong, and announced that it would be resold to NWS Group, which made NWS own both NWFB and Citybus, and the fierce competition for Hong Kong Island buses came to an end at the same time. Later, the two bus companies introduced route reorganization and Octopus interchange concessions. , and carried out logistics staffing, management and resource merger to save resources. In 2000, Citybus cooperated with Luxun, a subsidiary of Kowloon Bus, to install LCD TV screens on hundreds of buses and broadcast pre-recorded programs. Citybus and New World First Bus launched the Octopus same-day re-entry permit scheme on June 1 2005. At the same time, they also introduced the Octopus Interchange Scheme between Citybus and First World Bus, so that Octopus card holders can transfer to the other party's specific routes at preferential prices when taking Citybus or First World bus routes. Citybus is also the first bus company to provide automatic stop announcement by using GPS, which has been used on the buses of Citybus Airport Express since 1998. Since 2006, Citybus has been experimenting with a new generation of global positioning system (GPS) automatic station reporting system. Among them, the system of Citybus Airport Express Line A 10, which was introduced in mid-2006, plans to let passengers send short messages to Citybus through mobile phones, and then predict the arrival time. On June 5438+1October, 2007, another system also began to be tried out on MAN single-decker buses on routes 1 1, 12, 5 1 1. On July 1 2007, when the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Western Corridor is officially opened, Citybus will also operate two franchised bus routes from Tuen Mun to Shenzhen Bay Port public transport interchange, namely B3 to Tuen Mun Pier and B3X to Tuen Mun downtown. This symbolizes that after Citybus withdrew from the through train market in China and Hong Kong on 200 1 6 years ago, the bus line entered Shenzhen again. At the beginning of 1998, New World First Bus Service Co., Ltd. (First Bus) was formally established. New World Development Co., Ltd. is a joint venture with First Group, the largest ground transportation organization in the UK. New World Development Co., Ltd. (now called New Creation Group Co., Ltd.) holds 74% of the shares, and the First Group holds the remaining 26%. At that time, China Motor Bus Company Limited (CMB), which operated bus services on Hong Kong Island, was not renewed. * * * So 88 lines were put out for public bidding, and finally the first bus with no traffic operation experience won the franchise. According to * * at that time, NWFB was able to obtain the franchise because it did not operate any public transport services between China and Hong Kong, which was in line with * * *' s tendency to introduce new operators. At the same time, NWFB also put forward one of the most important commitments: to receive all the former CMB employees, solve the problem of whether the former CMB employees will stay or not, and purchase the original CMB fleet. After this bidding, CMB withdrew from the franchised bus market and entered the real estate industry in an all-round way. After taking over 88 bus lines, it only took more than one year to get on the track, including adding new buses, improving the management system and employee welfare, and strengthening the frequency of bus lines. As for the purchase of new buses, NWFB specially purchased low-floor buses, including "Dennis Trident" double-decker air-conditioned bus and "Dennis Darts" single-decker air-conditioned bus. At first, these new buses could not be delivered in time. First Bus only temporarily purchased the old bus services of CMB, but these old buses were eventually retained by air-conditioned buses and were renovated one after another. As for the non-air-conditioned buses, all of them will be eliminated in the next four years, and only one Dennis condor (team number: DM6) will be converted into an open-top bus and take the peak cable car connection route 15C. The first world bus began to install the Octopus toll collector on March 1999, and it was completely completed on February 5438+0, 2006. At the end of 2000, First Group sold 26% of the shares of First Bus to New World Development Co., Ltd. 200 1, and NWFB launched the Octopus exchange plan. By implementing it on different routes, NWFB can use this scheme to cancel some routes that passengers are dissatisfied with and reorganize its bus network to save resources. At first, NWFB's service scope was limited to Hong Kong Island in China. It was not until July 1999 that bus routes in Tin Shui Wai North and Tseung Kwan O South were invited for public bidding. First Bus successfully won the bid for seven routes in Tseung Kwan O South. 200 1, NWFB won the bus line franchise in west kowloon new district and successfully extended its service to kowloon and the new territories. In the initial stage of operation, NWFB constantly emphasized its image and often posted its own advertisements on buses to show its enterprising spirit. However, due to the lack of local traffic operation experience before, its operation ability is often questioned. According to the 2003 Annual Report of the China-Hong Kong Transport Complaints Unit [1](PDF), the complaint rate of First Bus ranks first among the three franchised bus companies.
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