BUSES PURCHASE * UK - Stagecoach confirms £50M orders for new vehicles
Transport group buys around 340 state-of-the-art buses and coaches
London,EN,UK -Breaking Travel News -9 Aug 2010: -- Stagecoach Group today confirmed details of orders for around 340 buses and coaches worth nearly £50million... The latest orders by the Perth-based transport group take its total investment in new vehicles for the UK for the 2010-11 financial year to around £65 million... It follows the launch by Stagecoach of Britain’s biggest single investment in green hybrid bus technology with 30% less carbon emissions than standard vehicles. The first of the £16m investment in 56 state-of-the-art electric-hybrid buses for Oxford and Manchester went into service last month, part-funded by a £5million support package from the Department for Transport’s Green Bus Fund... Details of the new orders are:* 100 Scania Enviro 400 double-deckers
* 63 Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 double-deckers
* 70 Alexander Dennis Enviro 300 single-deckers
* 76 Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 midi-buses
* 16 Volvo Plaxton Elite coaches
* 3 Optare Versa midi-buses
* 9 Optare Solo mini-buses
* 1 Volvo Plaxton Panther coach
* Ghana - 50% of Brazilian buses for persons with disabilities
Accra,Ghana -GNA -August 11, 2010: -- Government Vice President, John Dramani Mahama, on Wednesday announced that 50 per cent of buses expected from Brazil would be friendly to persons with disabilities... He said out of the 200 Brazilian buses expected in October this year, 100 of them would be fitted with disability facility to make them accessible to physically challenged persons...
* India - Ashok Leyland to ship out 1,000 buses to Sri Lanka
New Delhi,India -Sify Finance -11 Aug 2010: -- Commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland has bagged an order worth $26 million to export 1,000 buses to Sri Lanka by March 2011... The order is for Viking buses with seating capacity varying from 42 and 58. The buses will be supplied to People Leasing Company, which in turn will sell these to the private sector there, said Ashok Leyland... Ashok Leyland has a joint venture, Lanka Ashok Leyland, with the island nation's government... The company has sold over 8,000 buses in Sri Lanka so far. The new order is part funded by the Asian Development Bank...
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