Lee, Myung-Bak, the mayor of Seoul said about the confusion following reorganization of a mass transport system that “ the main problem was lack of citizen’s studying. It’s an irresponsible saying in imputing the mayor’s mistake to citizens. It resulted from lack of city government’s preparation. It was city authorities that didn’t calculate how many buses gathered into central line for bus exclusive use and prepare for it.
The unexpected adoption of subway commutation ticket is the way that an isolated man pushes. Seoul subway is linked to national rail way. So to adopt a commutation ticket, beforehand discussion with Korean national railway is absolutely needed. In spite of it, Seoul municipal authority published rashly, and KNR announced to refuse this idea.
That is to say, a confusion will be aggravated on mixed line between Seoul subway and National rail way.
The reorganization of mass transport system was not well verified. Even a few days before operation, it happened that ticket system’s terminal in subway was out of order.
Seoul city authority doesn’t try to patch this matter up in putting out a fire. They have to check if the number of bus user increases and the office-going hour and closing hour are shortened and to improve new system. They have to hurry a discussion with Kyunggi province in order to introduce Kyunggi bus, which operates across limit of Seoul in free transfer system. They must improve error rate of bad working amounted to 2 % of transport ticket.