BUSES PURCHASE PROSPECTS * India - Tamil Nadu to buy 3,500 new buses
Chennai,Tamil Nandu,India -Sify News -24 June 2009: -- Tamil Nadu's seven state transport undertakings (STUs) will purchase 3,500 buses this fiscal with funding assistance from Tamil Nadu Transport Development Finance Corp and the central government... Some 1,600 buses will be bought under the central government's Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission - an initiative to promote planned development of cities, according to a policy note of the state transport department submitted in the assembly by Transport Minister, K.N. Nehru... These buses will replace the existing fleets in Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai... Last fiscal, the STUs bought 3,182 new buses - 2,541 as replacement and 641 for augmentation - with a Rs.352-crore funding assistance by the Tamil Nadu government... (Photo from wikimedia: MTC new bus)* Dubai - RTA buys 518 buses for Dubai Metro passengers
Jebel Ali ,Dubai -Kipp Report -Jun 30, 2009: -- The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has purchased 518 buses from VDL, a Holland-based company, for AED1.9 billion to transport passengers to and from the Dubai Metro... The RTA hopes over 30 percent of the emirate’s population will use the metro... The metro’s red line, running from Jebel Ali to Rashidiya, will be completed in September 2009... (Photo from wikimedia.org: Arriva VDL Wright Commander)Labels: buses purchase prospects
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