[sustran] Re: Depreciation periods for buses in Singapore

[Howes, Alan P]

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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