Oman transport: Mwasalat to launch Ruwi-Al Alam Palace route

Muscat: Mwasalat will launch Ruwi-Al Alam Palace route on April 24, the operator tweeted on its official twitter handle.
According to a route map uploaded in its twitter handle, the bus will start from Ruwi, head to Muttrah via Darsait and then to Al Alam Palace.
Recently, Mwasalat announced that it has carried 1.1 million passengers since the launch of its operations on November 22, last year, until the end of March this year.
Ruwi-Al Mubaila route carried the highest number of passengers with 580,000, followed by Ruwi-Wadi Al Kabir route with 393,000, followed by Ruwi-Wadi Uddy with 127.000.
Mwasalat said in a statement to Omani News Agency (ONA) that the demand for the use of buses was higher than expected and the demand came from expatriates of various nationalities.
The company urged everyone, especially the citizens to use public transport because of the economic benefits to the individual and society in terms of reducing congestion, noise and harmful emissions.
It is worth mentioning that Mwasalat also launched a new route linking Ruwi-Al Amerat.