Oman transport: Mwasalat bus routes to Muscat hospitals soon

Muscat: Major Muscat hospitals will soon be connected to bus routes in the city, according to the Sultanate’s public transport provider, Mwasalat.
“We are already serving Al Nahdha hospital and next year, we plan to connect with Royal Hospital and Khoula Hospital,” Ahmed Albulushi, CEO, Mwasalat, said in an online statement.
A Mwasalat spokesman said these hospitals will be added as a part of route network extensions. “It will be not a dedicated service but some routes will be extended to cater to these hospitals,” the official said. With a growth rate of 48.5 per cent, Mwasalat transported more than 2.2 million passengers in the first half of 2017.
The analytics provided are for the period of January 1 to June 30, 2017, and pegged the number of daily passengers at 12,000 a day.
In 2016, during the same period, more than 1.4 million passengers were transported via the interior and exterior routes.
Last year, 8,000 passengers were estimated to have taken the bus on a daily basis, compared with 12,000 this year. Mwasalat transported more than 24,000 passengers on the first day of Eid, which breaks the company’s record on highest number of passengers in one day. The route from Ruwi to Al Mabela topped more than 790,000 passengers, followed by the route Ruwi to Wadi Kabir more than 360,000 passengers.
Ruwi to Amerat had 340,000 passengers, with Al Khoud to SQU plying more than 240,000 passengers.