While the Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) is planning to transform the urban mobility scenario with a fleet of new buses, on Thursday the transport company’s Board of Directors decided to refurbish the old fleet of buses so that the old vehicles would don a new look.
It was decided to refurbish and make 89 buses from its old fleet look again new and colourful. In fact, CRUT currently has 110 old buses running on the road.
A senior CRUT official said out of the 89 old buses, there would be 59 standard buses with sitting capacity of 43 passengers and 30 mini buses with sitting capacity of 28 passengers respectively.
Sources also said that while CRUT is going to run city buses through two different packages, Package-I and Package-II, the refurbishing of 89 buses from its old fleet of buses would be called as Package-III. The refurbishing of old buses will be done in phases within six months time from the commencement of work.
A senior CRUT official said, “By Friday the manufacturer is likely to provide additional 56 new buses so that the new fleet will have 85 buses. As the entire city is going to have around 200 buses, 100 will be provided by Ashok Leyland the rest 100 will be provided by another leading bus manufacturer Tata Motors.”
The city bus service project with the new buses will become operational before World Cup Hockey.