PURCHASE BUSES' PROSPECT
* USA - Purchase of new buses is OK'd - Board discusses Parent Involvement Committee
Belleville,MI,USA -The Belleville View, by Austen Smith -Oct 26, 2006: -- Van Buren School Board members approved the purchase of 30 new school buses for the district at a total cost of $2,097,210 at their Oct. 23 meeting... Presented by Sharon Boike, transportation supervisor, and Nick Armelagos, finance director, the bus purchase coincides with the district's 10-year-plan for replacing buses. The outgoing buses were bought in 1996...
* USA - $25 extra a year for more buses?
Seattle,WASH,USA -The Seattle Post Intelligencer, by LARRY LANGE -Oct 27, 2006: -- For the second time in six years, King County officials are asking taxpayers to pay more sales tax to support another planned bus service expansion... Backers say there's strong support for the measure, which would cost a typical county household another $25 a year in sales tax... The ballot measure, if passed, would pay for 175 new buses, as much as 700,000 new hours of service annually and buses every 10 minutes on five highly traveled corridors... It's also designed to expand service on 35 of the other most heavily used existing routes...
* New Zealand - Loans for more buses and trains - "It's incredibly hard to get people on public transport and incredibly easy to lose them"
Wellington,NZ -Australasian Bus and Coach (Australia) -30 Oct 2006: -- Regional councils could be allowed to apply for loans to buy more buses and trains to cope with the increasing demand for public transport. A report prepared by the Bus and Coach Association of NZ (BCANZ) says transport operators are struggling to cope with rising demand because of high fuel prices and urgent action was needed to increase capacity... Demand for peak-time bus, train and ferry services in Wellington has increased 11 percent over the past year, while rail passenger journeys in Auckland jumped 32 percent... Further delays in increasing capacity would see commuters who had switched to public transport return to their cars because of overcrowding, BCANZ Executive Director John Collyns says...
* India - 347 new buses for city
Andhra Pradesh,Hyderabad,India -The Hindu (Chennai,India) -27 Oct 2006: -- The city region of APSRTC will soon add 347 new buses to its fleet. The corporation has sanctioned the buses for the financial year 2006-07, according to Regional Manager C. Panduranga Murthy...
* India - All for public transport: 50 low-floor buses to hit roads soon
Chandigarh,India -The Chandigarh Newsline/Express News Service -Oct 29, 2006: -- The UT Administration is all set to introduce 50 new low-floor buses on the city roads soon. These would be in addition to the 120 such buses already on the roads... Taking the number of the low-floor buses to 170, the senior officials in the administration feel that it would a step in improving and popularising the public transport system in the city, which finds few takers...
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