BUSES' PURCHASE PROSPECTS
* Thailand - Priority buses the commute of the future
Bangkok,Thailand -The Nation Multimedia, by Kamol Sukin -7 Jan 2007: -- After years of talk Bangkok is building a new mass-transport system - the Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT... It will be built in the city centre first before expanding to the outer suburbs if pilots are a success... The Cabinet this week approved the first BRT project to be built by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). It will be a 16.5-kilometre route from the Silom Bangkok Transit System station to Krungthep Bridge... Every kilometre of BRT route costs Bt100 million. Compare that with the Bt2.2 billion to Bt3.5 billion for a kilometre of subway and the Bt1.5 billion to 2.5 billion for the Skytrain, and the cost advantages are obvious...
* Qatar - Mowasalat to ply 300 more school buses
Qatar,UAE - The Peninsula -Jan 7, 2007: -- The Public Transport Company (Mowasalat) will add 300 more buses to its fleet of schools buses from today... In the beginning of the current academic year, Mowasalat had provided 700 buses to various schools. And it had promised another 300, after the Asian Games... Till now, the schools have been depending on hired buses from private contractors. Most of these buses were of poor condition... It was against this backdrop, the ministry of education decided to seek the co-operation of Mowasalat...
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