NEW BUSES WORLDWIDE

* India - MTC replaces 75 buses

Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India -The Hindu -12 August 2007: -- Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) on Friday replaced 75 buses and recruited 90 new fleet employees at a function held in the city... Local Administration Minister M. K. Stalin also flagged off 75 new vehicles for the MTC, including 25 new vestibule buses, 3 low-floor buses and 47 Bharat Stage III buses. These vehicles will replace the old vehicles in the MTC fleet... (Image from wikipedia.org: MRTS station from Luz Corner)

* South Africa - 140 to be added to Durban routes

Garden View,Eastern Cape,South Africa -Engineering News (press release), by Irma Venter -10 Aug 2007: -- In a deal worth more than R100-million, Mercedes-Benz Commercial Vehicles is supplying 140 new buses to Remant Alton Land Transport, which operates the Durban bus transport system for the Ethekwini Municipality... (Picture by DCSA - BUS FAIR Durban's public bus service is to receive 140 new buses. These are some of the vehicles already delivered as part of the deal)