BUSES' PURCHASES WORLDWIDE
* India - Luxurious buses may not include Volvos
Pune,India -Pune Newsline -June 15, 2006: -- Municipal Commissioner Nitin Kareer sought to clarify that the Pune Municipal Corporation had passed the proposal for luxurious buses and not ‘Volvo per se’... Kareer’s clarification came after corporators had demanded scrapping of the proposal for purchasing 25 Volvos... But Kareer was quick to add that the decision for the purchase of luxurious buses which would also include low-floor or no-step buses would be taken by the PMT. The PMT would soon call for tenders for purchasing the same. The transport body would take a loan of Rs 30 crore for the buses...
* India - Mini buses in more unserved areas
Tamil Nadu,Chennai,India -The Hindu -16 June 2006: -- Transport Minister K.N. Nehru said that mini bus scheme would be extended to more areas unserved by existing bus routes... Right now, there were about 4,000 mini buses operating in the State. There was a proposal to increase this by another 3,000...
* USA - City gets $250,000 grant for bus fleet
Columbia,MO,USA -Columbia Daily Tribune -June 17, 2006: -- A $250,000 grant is on its way to Columbia to help expand the city’s bus fleet. The grant from the Federal Transit Administration was announced... The Columbia City Council will determine how the money will be used... New vans cost about $52,000, and the 40-foot buses cost about $345,000...
* Germany - DaimlerChrysler gets order from Dubai for 80 buses
FRANKFURT,Germany -MarketWatch -Jun 19, 2006: -- DaimlerChrysler AG, said it received an order from the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority, or RTA, for a total of 80 buses... Out of the 80 buses, 68 will be low-floor Mercedes-Benz Citaro models, to be produced at Mercedes-Benz' Mannheim plant with deliveries scheduled for April 2007. The remaining 12 express buses will be manufactured at its Brazilian plant...
* USA - State orders 630 new school buses
COLUMBIA, S.C.,USA -AP/Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington,NC) -20 June 2006: -- State Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum signed an order for 630 new school buses Tuesday... The $36 million dollar order is the state's largest school bus purchase since 1995... The order will allow the state to replace buses that are 22 and 23 years old. The new buses will be delivered in November, Tenenbaum said...
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