The route of bus number 525, which transported passengers from the centre of the capital to the Masazir settlement and vice versa, was in flagrant violation of passenger transport regulations.
Oku.Az reports that the related video was shared on the social network.
In the video you can see that the bus was being driven with the right side completely tilted towards the ground due to the load.
on the subject Oku.AzThe head of the transport line, who made a statement to Rovshan Salmanov It was stated that there were no passengers on the bus at the time.
“That bus is a spare bus. It is not a bus that runs on the daily route. Due to the start of school on September 16, we had to leave a spare bus on the route because we had to work in enhanced mode. When the bus passed through Masazir territory, it fell into a hole and had a breakdown. When the video was taken, the bus was not on the route and the passenger. The driver and mechanic’s assistant were not on it. I took it to the garage because of the breakdown that occurred when the bus overturned,” the transporter said.
It should be noted that social media users consider leaving public transport vehicles in such a sorry state, whether empty or full of passengers, to be unacceptable and a direct threat to passenger safety. They call on relevant institutions to seriously address this problem and take immediate measures to improve public transport.
It should be noted that the vast majority of complaints received by our editorial office about public transport in Baku were related to technical failures of buses.
Transport experts say a radical overhaul and modernisation of the capital’s public transport system is needed.
Aziza Ismayilova
