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8.11.10

NEW BUSES FLEET * WORLDWIDE

* Gibraltar - New City buses for the upper town

Gibraltar -The Gibraltar Chronicle, by Alice Mascarenhas -8 Nov 2010: -- Three new small city buses have been purchased and are already servicing Route 2 into the Upper Town areas operated by the Gibraltar Bus Company. The buses are user friendly with wheelchair access and fully air conditioned. Certain that frequent users of this route would welcome the improved comfort of these new vehicles. They represented a significant improvement over the vehicles used up till now to service this route allowing for greater passenger carrying capacity able to carry 20 passengers, of which 14 will be seated and six standing... Minister Holliday, spoke of the ongoing changes being introduced for the local bus service which will see some 75 new bus shelters, and new bus lay-bys throughout the Rock... The buses have cost £63,000 each with 40% of the total cost of £114,000 paid for through EU Funding... (Photo: Transport Minister Joe Holliday pictured with Gibraltar Bus Company Directors Andrew Perera and Brian Delaney, Depot Superintendent Paul Costa, and Gibraltar Senior Citizens Association president Manolo Ruiz)


* Malaysia - More buses useless without better info delivery

Putrajaya,Malaysia -Malaysia Kini, by Moaz Yusuf Ahmad -Nov 4, 10: -- The members of the Association for the Improvement of Mass Transit (Transit) note the recent announcement of 25 additional buses for the Nadi Putra service, to increase the size of the fleet from the current 150 buses...   According to the article, the buses are smaller, and they will be used for a "feeder bus" role, going deeper into the housing estates to pick up passengers...   The Nadi Putra service and the Putrajaya Corporation which owns the service, is also going to invest in an awareness campaign to encourage more people to take the bus...   They are also promising that drivers will stick to the schedule in order to ensure that the service is reliable...  The problem is not really that of the supply, but more of information, communication and attitude...   Information about Nadi Putra bus services is currently poor and the awareness campaign (which will probably be little more than banners on light poles for car drivers to read) are simply not going to be enough to get more people to use the service... (Photo from mama.nuraina: Nadi Putra buses' terminal)

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