BUSES' TROUBLES * Australia - Cracks appear in NSW gas bus fleet
Sydney,Australia -The Australasian Bus and Coach -12 November 2007: -- State Transit acting chief executive Peter Rowley is in public relations overdrive at the moment as he assures the public that the 0405NH gas buses in the State Transit fleet are safe to operate without restriction... Cracks were first identified on one of the gas buses during routine maintenance and this has led to a further inspection of other gas buses in the fleet... I want to assure all our commuters that there is no way the buses would continue to operate if we had any safety concerns... State Transit has informed the Independent Transport Safety and Reliability Regulator and the Ministry of Transport about the repair program... The bus chassis’ and frames were designed at the DaimlerChrysler factory in Germany and shipped to Australia as driveable units... Ninety buses were inspected and 75 of them were found to have some cracking. Once the assessment is complete and ITSRR is satisfied, the RTA will be asked to sign off on the repair scheme... "State Transit has contracted to purchase 255 new gas buses for its fleet. The bus frames will be built in Australia. The new design has been subjected to detailed analysis, and they will not be rolled out across the fleet until we are assured of their design integrity," Rowley says...* Regs to manage engine brake noise approved by ministers
Sydney,Australia -The Australasian Bus and Coach -13 November 2007: -- An in-service standard to manage engine brake noise has been approved unanimously by state and federal transport ministers... The regulations will for the first time monitor and identify heavy vehicles with worn, defective or inferior mufflers... National Transport Commission (NTC) General Manager Safety & Environment, Tim Eaton, says the development of a national regulation and enforcement technology has been a collaborative effort involving government and industry... New South Wales developed technology to pick out the characteristic ‘bark’ of an engine brake from the traffic stream and measure it. South Australia led development of ‘noise camera’ technology to enforce the regulation, while Victoria has also been involved in trialing the technology...
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