PURCHASES WORLDWIDE
* USA - CDTA board approves funds for 16 new buses
Albany,NY,USA -Albany Business Review, by Eric Durr -March 30, 2006: -- The Capital District Transportation Authority Board approved a $61.5 million 2006-2007 operating budget Wednesday during it's regular monthly meeting... The spending plan includes a capital outlay of $11.2 million, most of which will go to fund the acquisition of 16 new buses as part of CDTA's new fleet renewal strategy. The plan also calls for buying six hybrid buses, which are expected to be purchased with state transportation bond act money... The new plan calls for replacing a few buses every year, resulting in more regular expenditures on maintenance and new buses. The goal, Basile explained, is to replace about 10 percent of the fleet annually over the next ten years...
* India - Three more buses to be added to "Bangalore Rounds" fleet
Karnataka - Bangalore Chennai,India -The Hindu -1st Apr 2006: -- Enthused by the response to its "Bangalore Rounds," the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is planning to add at least three more buses to the Bangalore Rounds fleet... Known as "Curitiba" model bus, the air-conditioned Bangalore Rounds bus with plush interiors is fast becoming popular with visitors to the city. In view of this, three more buses would be added to the fleet in a few months, BMTC Chief Traffic Manager Dastagir Sharief told...
* Australia 1 - $250m to put 505 new buses on roads
Sydney,New South Wales,Australia -Sydney Morning Herald, by Alex Mitchell -Apr 2, 2006: -- A $250 MILLION plan to replace more than a quarter of State Transit's bus fleet - the biggest investment in buses in NSW history - will be unveiled today... The 505-bus contract with Smithfield-based Custom Coaches is also the biggest single capital investment by a single operator in Australian history...
* Australia 2 - Buses to run on gas in $250m deal
Sydney,New South Wales,Australia -Sydney Morning Herald, by Anne Davies State -Apr 3, 2006: -- ALMOST half of Sydney's buses will be powered by natural gas in five years, and clean diesel buses using new technology will progressively replace older models in a $250 million program...
* USA - School system asking county to buy 17 more buses to replace aging ones
Clarksville,TN,USA -The Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, by MELISSA TYNDALL -2 Apr 2006: -- The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System will ask the County Commission to borrow $1.5 million to replace 13 retiring buses — not necessarily because the buses are in disrepair, but because state law requires it... The schools want the county to buy 17 buses... Paul Blackwell, the vehicle shop supervisor at the school system's operations complex, said Tennessee requires schools to stop using buses that have been on the road 15 years or for 150,000 miles...
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