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15.4.16

CITY's POLLUTION * Mexico: Buses baned

* DF - Smog-alert car ban jams metro, buses in Mexico City

... Under new regulations imposed after the capital recently experienced its worst air-quality crisis in over a decade, 40 percent of cars were ordered off the road after smog levels hit 1½ times acceptable limits Tuesday... Pollution levels went down somewhat Wednesday, and the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis said only about half that amount of vehicles would be kept off the streets Thursday... With 2 million of the capital’s cars ordered out of circulation Wednesday, fares were temporarily waved for some public transportation. Buses crawling along the central Reforma boulevard were crowded during the morning rush hour... Martin Colin, a 53-year-old taxi driver, pointing to a bus jammed front-to-back with standing commuters. “They look like little sardines. The buses are full, full”... The vehicle ban does not apply to public or private buses — something that has drawn criticism since many privately operated minibuses are notorious for belching thick black smoke...
(Photo by Dario Lopez-Mills/Associated Press - A man rides his bicycle along Reforma Avenue in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 6, 2016. City authorities have barred millions of vehicles from the streets due to a pollution alert) -- Mexico City, DF, MEX - AP/The Washington Post, by Peter Orsi - April 6, 2016

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27.3.10

BAN BUSES * Philippines - City ban on provincial buses

City buses are not allowed to ply provincial routes; provincial buses should be treated the same way

Manila,Philippines -The Philippine Daily Inquirer, by Neal Cruz -21 March 2010: -- Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, he has banned the entry of provincial buses in Manila because of the traffic and pollution that they bring with them. Now if only all the Metro Manila mayors will follow his example, maybe sanity and health will return to the streets of the metropolis... The Department of Public Works and Highways spent billions of pesos to build these flyovers to make traffic above and below them move more smoothly. So what did the MMDA do?... It blocked through-traffic under the flyovers, made vehicles go around U-turns, then turned the spaces under the flyovers into loading/unloading bays of provincial buses, parking lots, junkyards for MMDA’s steel junk, and air-conditioned offices for MMDA personnel. Instead of the flyovers easing traffic, therefore, they contributed to more traffic congestion aside from creating ugly sights. All those billions of pesos of taxpayers’ money were wasted... The reason the MMDA was set up was to give the cities and municipalities of the megalopolis uniform policies. This ban on provincial buses that Mayor Lim has started can be a beginning with the MMDA as the facilitator. After all, why should provincial buses be allowed to choke the already clogged city streets? City buses are not allowed to ply provincial routes; provincial buses should be treated the same way... (Image from images3.wikia.nocookie: Overloaded Philippines' provincial bus)

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7.9.07

Unruly students * New Zealand - Face buses ban

School students are being warned they could be kicked off Christchurch's buses for two years if they misbehave

Wellington,New Zealand -Stuff.co.nz/The Press, by ARWEN HANN -6 September 2007: -- ... Under the Trespass Act 1980, the city's bus companies have the power to issue trespass notices to anyone behaving badly and can ban them from using some or all buses, which are considered private property... (Picture by KIRK HARGREAVES/The Press - LONG WALK HOME: School students are being warned they could be kicked off Christchurch's buses for two years if they misbehave)

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