A Vietnamese-Japanese joint venture inaugurated a Japanese-style environmental-friendly bus route in the southern province of Binh Duong on Thursday. The bus route, called “Kaze Shuttle”, was set up and is operated by Becamex Tokyu Co., Ltd, a joint venture between Japan’s Tokyu Corporation and Vietnam’s Becamex IDC Corp located in Binh Duong. The route uses buses running on compressed natural gas (CNG) that is not harmful to the environment. The interior part of the bus is very convenient and has five cameras to monitor the driver, passengers and the vehicle’s itinerary.   The route is 22.1 km long, running from the building of Becamex to the centralized administrative center in Binh Duong New City, an urban-industry-service complex in the province. Nakata Yasuyuki, general director of Becamex Tokyu, said, “Kaze means ‘wind’ in Japanese. We hope that the bus system, which is based on Japanese technology, will operate like a soft breath of wind that can travel anywhere and become a public means of transport that is loved by Vietnamese people.”

The company charges VND5,000 (US$0.23) per ticket for students and VND10,000 ($0.46) for other passengers.

The route, which links Thu Dau Mot City and Binh Duong New City, will be a convenient means of public transport for civil servants and local residents, local authorities said.    

In order to encourage public servants to go to work by means of public transport, the provincial authorities have bought 3,000 tickets and given them to civil servants.

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