Introduction

With the National League for Democracy’s (NLD) landslide victory in the 2015 general election, the expectations of the people have increased greatly. It is obvious that, in comparison with other regional countries, the overall political and living conditions of the Burmese people were explicitly left behind for over 60 years due to the rule of the military-backed dictatorship. Since the country’s 2010 transition to democracy, the desire and passion of the citizens to develop and catch up to international trends has only grown, reaching a peak around time of the NLD’s election triumph in 2015.
   The strong will of the people to achieve higher national development and make progress in raising the country’s socioeconomic status was observed in the case of the reform of the Public Transportation System initiated by the Yangon Regional government in early 2016. People were largely dissatisfied with the performance of the old system (Ma Hta Tha), and their desperation for something better allowed them to be swept away by the spreading news of the impending Yangon Bus System at that time.
   However, since its introduction, the newly established (YBS) system has revealed some of innate structural weaknesses, especially in terms of the bus schedules and route maps. In spite of that, people were quite willing to endure these initial hardships as they remembered the struggles of the previous system held out hope that the reform had the potential to improve the situation. Yangon School of Political Science (YSPS) conducted a public opinion poll on the recently established Yangon Bus System. And we were able to come with the optimism of its users and willingness to contributing to proceeding further reform measures such as national development and cities development by the users and the people.

 

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The Yangon School of Political Science(YSPS) is an academic institution which will be delivering knowledge to transform Burma into Free, Just and Tolerant society with informed, liberated and empowered citizenry. YSPS is a leading front in liberal philosophical movement and research, as part of the global movement towards the same end.