Unfortunately,
the recent trend indicated that the bus patronage has been decreasing because the
number of riders divert from travel by buses to private cars, as seen from the statistics
that the 5-year increase in private vehicle transport was 13.8% and 15.9% in 1984-1989
and 1989-1994 respectively, compared with the increase in bus transport of 6.4% and
7.5% respectively in the same period