PURCHASE PROSPECTS WORLDWIDE
* Canada - City to lease 10 new busesPeterborough,Ontario,Canada -Lindsay This Week, by Lance Anderson -26 Sept 2006: -- Ten used buses will be leased from a United States company to allow the City to continue with the next phase of its transit overhaul... At Committee of the Whole on Monday night, city council voted to allow the transit department to lease 10 40-foot MCI buses... But... "New buses are part of out transit study. We have enough to buy 10 to 11 buses outright. There's more than enough [money] in or capital budget for 2005," said Councillor Len Vass, chair of the City transit committee... Vass noted the additional buses are needed for the transit facelift. Extended hours and new routes require more buses, he explained... (Photo: Peterborough Centennial Museum)
* Ireland - 260 new buses for Bus Eireann and Dublin Bus
Dublin,Ireland -The Ireland Online -28 Sept 2006: -- Bus Éireann is getting €50m from the Department of Transport to buy 160 new buses for services outside Dublin, it was announced this afternoon... Dublin Bus will be getting a hundred new buses in the next year, thanks to government funding of €30m...
* Uzbekistan - Tashkent city administration to buy new trams, buses
Tashkent,Uzbekistan -UzReport.com -2 Oct 2006: -- Tashkent city administration plans to purchase 30 trams and 300 buses innear future, Deputy Governor of Tashkent city and chairman of Tashshahartranshizmat...
* Canada - TransLink buys 126 new diesel buses
Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada -NEWS1130/Vancouver Sun, by Treena Wood -Oct 06, 2006: -- In the battle between diesel and natural gas, diesel has won out at TransLink... It's spending just over $50 million to buy 126 new diesel buses, even after fierce lobbying by the compressed natural gas industry... TransLink argues the buses are cleaner-burning than the old diesel models, and cheaper than ones burning other types of fuel... The new low floor, wheelchair accessible buses will be delivered next summer and fall...
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