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19.1.08
PREVENTION * Canada - N.B. restricts use of 15-passenger vans
Bathurst,NB,Canada - CTV.ca News -Jan. 18 2008: --The New Brunswick government has suspended the use of 15-seat passenger vans to transfer students to and from schoolfollowing a horrific crash that killed seven students and a teacher from Bathurst, N.B., last week... Education Minister Kelly Lamrocksaid Friday that use of the vans will be suspended for the remainder of the 2007-2008 school year; however, he added there is no evidence to suggest the type of vehicle used played a role in the tragic accident, which involved a boy's basketball team returning from a game in Moncton... (Photo by Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS - The van that was carrying the Bathurst High School boys' basketball team rests on a flatbed truck in Bathurst, N.B.)
I fond theSharma Transportpeople to be unfriendly, uncaring about their customers and plain out liars.Do not use their bus service
Pondicherry,Bangalore -Rajshekhar.net, by Raj Shekhar/lunatechian -January 8, 2008: -- On 21st December, I had made a trip to Pondicherry.I had booked a ticket in the Sharma Transports (Bangalore) bus for this journey.When the bus reached, we saw that the bus is a derelict piece of junk.Some of the seats were missing, there were holes in the roof and there were rats in the luggage cabinet.The passengers who were there in the bus told us that the driver was extremely rude.When one of the passengers had complained about the seats and the rats, the driver told him that the passenger was quite welcome to leave the bus... All the passengers refused to board the bus and we called a policeman to theSharma Transport's office.After around 2 hours of arguing, they arranged a different bus for us...It looks like this is their common mode of operation.They oversell their buses and hope that the passengers would not create a fuss. If you are planning a trip, avoidSharma Transport at all cost... (Video from YouTube, by alnero -December 18, 2007: "Trânsito em Bangalore" Isso sim é diversão!)