* North Ireland / UK - Belfast could get bendy buses
Belfast,N.Ireland/UK -alaninbesfast -April 08, 2008: -- The Department for Regional Development & Efficient Movement of People has employed consultants Atkins & KPMG to investigate the possibilities for a rapid transit system in Belfast... The report has been published today and concludes that Belfast needs bendy buses rather than a light rail system... Setting up a light rail system (£590m) would cost four times as much as a bus-based system (£147m), and the annual operating costs for rail (£6.78m) would dwarf those for buses (£1.44m)... The report recommends that the running of the new public transport service should be put out to tender, though Translink would be free to apply. The pilot route proposals could later be augmented if the scheme proved successful... Regional Development Minister, Conor Murphy, was enthusiastic as he launched the report... (Video from YouTube, by stuartmoss -April 16, 2007: "Belfast - views from an open top bus tour". Features sites around the City Centre as well as the loyalist and nationalist areas of the city)
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