[sustran] Re: Depreciation periods for buses in Singapore

[Jains]

Alan,

Maximum bus age of 18 years is not mandatory but part of an agreement
reached between TD and franchised bus companies. So if a bus company would
like to push it through on a legality, they still can.
Hope this clarifies.
Alok

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Howes, Alan P
<Alan.Howes at atkinsglobal.com>wrote:

>  Not sure I follow this, Alok -
>
> Item 3, "TD does not specify a maximum bus age for franchised buses ...",
> seems at variance with items 1 and 4 which specify an 18-year maximum life.
>
> Regards, Alan
> Atkins Transport Planning
> (writing from Kuwait)
>
>
> --- In sustran-discuss at yahoogroups.com, Jains <alok.priyanka at ...> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Mike,
> >
> > To add to an excellent summary of bus regulations in Hong Kong, I have
> > the following extracted from a past paper that I wrote on a similar
> issue:
> >
> > 1. Public Bus Services Ordinance (PBSO) requires a Certificate of
> > Fitness
> > (COF) examination with frame check when a bus reaches 17 years of age
> > should the bus companies wish to extend the license for 1 more year,
> > which is understood to be the maximum age permitted by Transport
> > Department (TD) since 1998. The normal practice of the franchised bus
> > companies is to retire their buses when they reach the age of 17 years
> > as the cost of COF examination does not generally justify a 1-year life
> extension.
> >
> > 2. Buses need to pass an annual examination before they can be
> > re-licensed every year. At year 17, TD requires an inspection to be
> > carried out on the structural frame condition of the bus frame (i.e.
> > COF inspection), which requires extensive dismantling of the body parts.
> >
> > 3. TD does not specify a maximum bus age for franchised buses and
> > would normally allow re-licensing of buses if they pass the annual
> > vehicle examinations (with COF inspection at age 17 and every three
> > years onwards, i.e. at age 20 and 23 etc);
> >
> > 4. By mutual agreement, TD and franchised bus operators decided that
> > franchised buses should be subject to mandatory retirement when they
> > reach the 18th anniversary of their date of 1st registration.
> >
> > 5. For non-franchised buses (NFB), as long as they are able to pass
> > the COF or COR there is no agreement on a mandatory age for
> > retirement. However, the average age of NFBs are 6.7 years and they
> > normally retire at about 10 - 12 years of age.
> >
> > 6. In his policy address the Chief Executive indicated that the
> > Government would spend $3.2 billion to provide an incentive for the
> > early replacement of 74,000 pre-Euro and Euro I diesel commercial
> > vehicles with new vehicles meeting Euro IV exhaust emission standards.
> > The Government would allow pre-Euro vehicle owners 18 months and Euro
> > I vehicle owners three years to take up the offer.
> > If you wish to discuss this further, contact me off-list.
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Alok
>
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