BUSES WORLD NEWS - Condenseds
* Seatbelt plea for all buses used by kids
Belfast,N.I., United Kingdom -Belfast Telegraph, by Michael McHugh -6 Jan 2006: There were calls for a fleet of buses solely for school children yesterday as the controversy about kids standing on buses took another twist...
* Service with a smile on the buses lands Mo top award
Scotland,United Kingdom -Scotsman, by ALAN RODEN -6 Jan 2005: A Bus driver who provides tips to tourists on where to eat and says hello to every passenger has been named the best public transport worker in Scotland... Mo Phillips, who drives the number 31 service for Lothian Buses, was praised as an "ambassador" for Edinburgh at a national awards ceremony... The 41-year-old from Prestonfield, one of only 55 female drivers with Lothian Buses, specialises in talking to her passengers - in contrast with stereotypical grumpy bus drivers...
* Now welcome aboard buses without barriers
NEW DELHI,Chennai,India -The Hindu, by Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar -7 Jan 2006: A visually-impaired man about 30 feet from a bus terminal in the Capital strains his ears and starts walking towards a speaker installed at the bus stop which beckons him with a recorded announcement, "Welcome to Hauz Khas bus terminal... ." The man soon finds bright yellow guiding and warning tiles beneath his feet that guide him to the bus shelter which also has a ramp for easy movement... Then as a bus approaches the stand, speaker on board announcing, "This bus is plying on route 620 and going to Shivaji Stadium... ." With the height of the stand being 38 cm, the man is able to simply walk into the bus and take a reserved seat...
* Hybrid buses enter transit mix
EDMONTON,ALB,Canada -The Edmonton Journal, by Keith Gerein -Jan 07, 2006: With eye on replacing older vehicles, ETS will begin tests on three models... Edmonton Transit customers can take a ride into the future this year when the city test drives three types of hybrid diesel-electric buses that could one day become the mainstay of the city's fleet...
* With MnDOT help, public buses may run in OTC
Fergus Falls, Minnesota The Fergus Falls Journal, by Sarah Horner -Jan 7, 2006: Otter Tail is one of the few counties in Minnesota that doesn't provide public transportation for its residents, but maybe not for long... the DOT might finally have enough money to help fund such a project... The county initially applied for a $875,000 grant three years ago to fund countywide public transit, and operation costs have likely climbed since then. MnDOT's recent financial commitment to Skauge was for $250,000 to $500,000...
* 4,000 new buses, shorter routes
Bangkok, Thailand -The Bangkok Post -8 Jan 2006: The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) will start revamping bus routesthis month and deploy 4,000 new air-conditioned buses in a major exercise to provide ...
* Bikes on buses? Tracked by deficits - Advances vowed, but some skeptical
ROXBURY,Boston,Conn,USA -The Boston Globe, by Jennifer Schwartz -Jan 8, 2006: MBTA buses emerge from their garage during her daily commute to work. Some of the buses on three cross-town routes, lack bike racks, which have been touted by the T as available ''to be used at all times" since 2000... The T says that the temporary absence of racks owes to bus maintenance, and further, that it plans to outfit 250 more buses with bike racks this spring, with the possibility of adding more in the future. But cyclists, says she doubts the commitment to the expansion...
* Banish rickety buses, Govt is ready with new rules: safe, comfortable and disabled friendly
NEW DELHI,India -Indian Express, by KANDULA SUBRAMANIAM -Jan 8, 2006: City and inter-state buses, run by private operators and state-owned companies across the country, would soon have to meet minimum safety and comfort standards before getting a permit to hit the road...
* MTA takes over fifth private bus line
NEW YORK,NY,USA -AP -Jan 8, 2006: A fifth private bus line has been brought under the operation of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority... Four other lines have already been transferred to the MTA, and the remaining two lines, Jamaica and Triboro, are expected to be taken over by the MTA this winter, Bloomberg said...
* Fiat, Suzuki hitch local rides
New Delhi,India -Business Standard -Jan 14, 2006: Italian, Japanese majors to sell cars, bikes through Tata, Maruti dealers... The second day of the Auto Expo saw back-to-back announcements about two multinationals — Italy’s Fiat and Suzuki Motors of Japan — looking to leverage their more established partners’ networks in the country...
* Leyland heads for Dubai, lines up Rs 550 cr plan
New Delhi,India -Business Standard -Jan 14, 2006: Flagship company of the Hindujas, Ashok Leyland, today said that it would invest Rs 550 crore in the next two years on capacity expansion for all its commercial vehicles... This will include setting up of a unit in Dubai to build bodies of buses, a bus manufacturing factory in North India and a unit to manufacture gears for export...
* Pact with Fiat our window to the world: Tata
New Delhi,India -Business Standard -Jan 14, 2006: Says Tata Motors will be able to access Fiat’s technology and its vast marketing network in Europe... Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata today described the deal with Italy’s Fiat Group under which Tata dealers will sell Fiat cars and "evolving relationship with no barriers or boundaries"...
* Anger grows over plan to halt buses
Melbourne,Victoria,Australia -The Age, by Dan Silkstone -Jan 10, 2006: Saturday night and Sunday bus services in Dandenong and Springvale will halt next month because the State Government is refusing to fund them... The Government says its transport priorities are improving bus services in outer Melbourne and lifting public transport capacity in the fast-growing Dandenong corridor. But two bus routes —which meet both of those goals and have carried 900,000 people in the past year— have been axed because the Government does not want to pay for them... In last May's state budget the Government committed $45 million over four years for outer suburban bus services, including $1 million for the Dandenong area. Experts say that is only a fraction of what is needed...
* New buses for Yarmouth route
Norfolk,England,UK -Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, by TOM SMITHARD -9 Jan 2006: Passengers along the East Coast will find their bus travel just the ticket from Tuesday as £600,000 of investment is rolled out along their route... First Eastern Counties has bought three new single-decker buses for route eight - from Caister to the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston via Yarmouth - and spent £100,000 upgrading six double-deckers...
* Over-speeding buses a menace on our roads
Gaberones,Botswana -Mmegi -10 Jan 2006: We always feared something bad was going to happen. But like everybody else, we believed that good sense would somehow prevail to avert catastrophic consequences... The A1 road (in particular Gaborone-Francistown road) has a lot of traffic congestion... The long distance buses that ply this route everyday are either driven by speed maniacs or they have been constructed in such a way that they have difficulty keeping to the speed limit of 120 kilometres per hour. They whiz past bemused motorists at supersonic speed. For bus operators, this road has been turned into a race-course for their latest double-deck acquisitions and sleek state of the art Marcopollos, Volvos and Man...
* Bee-Line Buses Will Soon Accept MetroCards
New York,NY,USA -NY1 News -Jan 10, 2006: Riders of Westchester's bee-line buses who also use city buses and subways will soon be able to use their MetroCards for travel north of the city...
* Trams 'won't drive buses away'
Scotland,United Kingdom -Scotsman, by JANE BRADLEY -13 Jan 2006: Transport leader Andrew Burns has insisted Edinburgh's proposed trams network will not affect the city's bus companies... Union leaders fear the network will spell disaster for Lothian Buses by luring passengers off buses, instead of drivers out of their cars... But Councillor Burns told a public meeting held by the Edinburgh Traffic Forum (ETF) last night that trams may even increase the number of bus passengers...
* Council to control buses?
London,UK -Bucks Free Press -13 Jan 2006: Greater council control of bus routes may help tackle High Wycombe's "unreliable" bus services... Buckinghamshire County Council has said it is considering getting more involved in running services, the week after Arriva upped its bus fares again and slashed child discount...
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