New Buses
*Dubai/United Arab Emirates - Boost Public Transport
The first of Dubai’s newly built public buses reported for duty today with more accessible doorways, wider aisles and larger capacityDubai,Dubai,United Arab Emirates -XPRESS, by Derek Baldwin -June 28, 2007: -- The first new stretch bus measuring 18 meters long can carry up to 120 passengers, twice that of the traditional 12 metre bus, said Abdulla Yousef Al Ali, director of Public Buses Department... “We are receiving three to four new buses every day,” he said, toward an eventual complement of 1,200 public RTA buses by 2008 to cut down on growing traffic gridlock in the city... Yeo told reporters that the Mercedes bus model was tested in a heat tunnel in Germany for temperatures up to 50 C. A humidifier was put inside the bus model to simulate passengers and then the air conditioning was turned on... The test brought the temperature down to 24 C, a comfortable traveling zone for passengers... In each bus, Yeo said Mercedes has also installed air conditioner fan units over each access door to create a “cold-air curtain” to prevent heat from the outside from invading the bus on each stop... In addition to new buses, the RTA has pledged to have 1,500 air conditioned bus stops by 2009...
* Jamaica - JUTC acquires new high end buses
Jamaica -Radio Jamaica - Jun 27, 2007: -- Members of the commuting public should now have access to additional transportation following Wednesday morning's handing over of new buses to the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC)... The cash strapped bus company was expected to receive 50 new buses to boost the fleet and improve the service to commuters...
Jamaica -Radio Jamaica - Jun 27, 2007: -- Members of the commuting public should now have access to additional transportation following Wednesday morning's handing over of new buses to the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC)... The cash strapped bus company was expected to receive 50 new buses to boost the fleet and improve the service to commuters...
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