[sustran] Re: fwd: Delhi bans old buses

[Wendell Cox]

Does anyone have any idea on what basis the tenders would be issued? Service
quality, service expansion, least subsidy? Etc?

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Subject: [sustran] fwd: Delhi bans old buses


> Hmmm. I guess a lot of people in Delhi will need to ride bicycles on
Monday
> if they can, even though Delhi in April is starting to get very hot!
>
>
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> BBC World News
> Saturday, 1 April, 2000, 18:20 GMT 19:20 UK
> Delhi bans old buses
>
> The Delhi authorities have complied with an order to withdraw from service
> thousands of buses over eight years old - half the city's fleet - despite
a
> plea from transport operators. The old buses, which run on unrefined
> diesel, are seen as a major source of pollution.
>
> They are to be replaced by vehicles using more environmentally-friendly
> compressed natural gas.
>
> The order also affects taxis and auto-rickshaws of a similar age.
> A last-minute bid by the city's transport corporation to extend the
> deadline for scrapping the ageing vehicles was rejected by the Supreme
Court.
>
> New measures
>
> The Delhi transport commissioner, Parvez Hashmi, said measures would be
> introduced within a few days to help counter inconvenience to commuters.
>
> The ruling also affects ageing taxis and auto-rickshaws
>
> These would include diverting about 1,000 buses from inter-state services
> to serve the city, and issuing tenders to run some 1,500 buses to private
> operators.
> In its application to the court on Friday, Delhi's transport corporation
> had requested until 2005 to implement the ruling, issued two years ago.
>
> But the court said it had given fair warning, and told the corporation
that
> it could not afford to let it continue to pollute the city's air.
>
> copyright BBC
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