Buses World News

Green Bus * Thailand - Spending 45 million baht on its new bus route Chiang Mai – Phuket

Chiang Mai,Thailand -PhuketIndex -30 Oct 2010: -- Thaipatanakit Transportation Chiangmai Co. Ltd or Green Bus, a transportation company in the upper northern area, got the authorization to provide transportation between Chiang Mai and Phuket from the Department of Land Transportation on the route number 799 which was 1,500 kilometers long... The company had ordered 5 thirty-seated VIP buses, each 15 metres long, which are worth 45 million baht from China to use on this route. The buses would be delivered to the company in February 2011. As a result the service would be ready in March or April 2011... The target group would be Thai and foreign tourists, especially the backpackers, the students, and working people in the south and north of Thailand... Somchai added that the company also planned to open a new bus route to Kunming, China via Laos. Now, it was under the negotiation with Thai and other countries’ governments...

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* USA - The old dog is getting a new look.

New buses, terminals for Greyhound - Company aims at youth, Latinos

Dallas,TX,USA -AP/The Detroit Free Press, by DAVID KOENIG -December 16, 2007: -- Greyhound Lines Inc. says it has spent $60 million over the past three years to freshen up its fleet of 1,250 buses and its largest terminals... Next, the company plans an advertising campaign designed to bring back former customers and attract new riders, especially Hispanics and those between 18 and 24... Greyhound officials say the makeover is part of an upgrade that began in 2004, when the company eliminated many small-town stops and routes to speed up service between larger cities... Patty Herbeck, Greyhound's director of marketing, said the company has refurbished more than 900 buses with new seats and paint jobs and spruced up 125 of its roughly 940 terminals by repainting, renovating restrooms and adding plasma-screen televisions in waiting areas...

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Passengers' Service * Dubai - Travelling in buses to become hassle-free

Dubai,United Arab Emirates -Gulf News, by Ashfaq Ahmed -November 26, 2007: -- Travelling in public buses will be hassle-free in the near future as a new computerised passenger information system and journey planner will be launched, which will help in planning a trip... Khalid Hashim, Director of Planning and Business Development at the Public Transport Agency of the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), said that the new computerised information system would provide real time information to passengers about bus timings at bus stops and inside buses... (Picture: Commuters will be able to plan a trip by using the Real Time Information System for public transport buses)

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* UK - All change for bus passengers

Bus routes are to change as a station is shut down to make way for a new concourse of shops

Sunderland,UK -The Sunderland Echo -9 Nov 2007: -- ... Services in Seaham town centre will use the new interchange on South Crescent from Monday as the new £18million Byron Place shopping centre opens... It will be the end for the ageing bus station, which has become an eyesore and magnet for troublemakers and the homeless... The land is to be used as part the St John's Square development, a £15million project which will see shops, houses, council services, a library, public open space and car parking created on the site... Go North East is making minor alterations to routes, with ticket prices to be simplified... (Image from www.easington.gov.uk: Shopping mall, "Byron Place")

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