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23.3.16

OVERCROWDED BUSES * India

* Tamil Nadu - Chennai buses most crowded in the country

-- The stance is slanting and the demeanour decrepit. The very appearance of the buses of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) in Chennai can be telling in many respects. The slant has become the natural pose after years of carrying passengers on the footboards... Overcrowded buses are not new to Chennaiites but the numbers make it official. With 1,300 passengers travelling per bus per day, MTC has the most crowded buses in the country, a Union ministry report said... Across the state, the government rolled out 7,153 buses from 2011-12 to 2014-15. However, the fleet sized increased only by 1,574 - from 19,110 to 20,684. Experts say the core issue of both over-crowding and high number of accidents is due to poor planning of routes. Several of the routes in the corporation are very long and are not utilised effectively... Overcrowded buses are not only dangerous but also uncomfortable for passengers, especially with the summer approaching... With the summer approaching, commuters are not looking forward to using MTC buses...
Chennai, TN, India - Times of India, by Karthikeyan Hemalatha - Mar 22, 2016

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7.7.08

OVERCROWDED BUSES * Australia - Over the Hills on

..."Since first year it has been getting slower and slower" ...

Sydney,Australia -The Sydney Mornig Herald, by Linton Besser -30 June 2008: -- In February 2005, Vijay Bhatia climbed aboard the Hillsbus 610X from Castle Hill to the city for his first day at university. Since then, the 21-year-old nanotechnology student has taken the bright yellow bus to Central more than 1000 times... "It was pretty good back then," he said. "But since first year it has been getting slower and slower.".. The veteran commuter has watched demand for the service explode - and the peak-hour travel time double in length... Since 2001 the population in the north-west has ballooned, thanks to a series of land releases that offer Sydney perhaps its final glimpse of the big backyard that was once the suburban staple. More than 19,000 new residents flocked to the Baulkham Hills local government area in the five years to 2006... With more than 157,000 residents, it has swollen by 14 per cent - more than triple the rate of growth across the rest of the city... It is one of the few major housing catchments in Sydney without a rail link. With the region booming, buses have had to carry out the long-haul transport task normally required of an express train. But, while a CityRail line can carry up to 20,000 people an hour, to carry the same number by bus would require 250 buses anhour... In September 2005, patronage in the morning peak was about 170,000 a month. That figure has now topped 300,000, with growth between 15 and 30 per cent occurring over the past two years... In the past two years the State Government has bought 60 additional buses for the company under a standard bus operating contract that was implemented in Sydney several years ago - and most have been put on the M2 service into the city... (Photo by Brendan Esposito/ - Hard trip . . . waiting for a bus in Castle Hill. North-western Sydney's population has grown rapidly, but there is no rail line)

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8.2.08

Extra 20 school buses * Australia - Added to Darwin services

Darwin,NT,Australia -ABC News -Feb 6, 2008: -- Northern Territory Transport Minister Delia Lawrie says an extra 20 school buses have been added to Darwin school services to cope with issues of overcrowding on school buses... Ms Lawrie says packed buses meant some students were left behind at the Palmerston interchange this week... But she denies claims from the Opposition Leader that nine-year-olds were kicked off their bus... "Kids aren't ever kicked off a bus," she said... The Opposition says there has been an influx of students heading into Darwin because Palmerston's middle school did not open as planned this term...

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