Singapore will defer its mid-year review of bus and subway train fares till the fourth quarter of the year, delaying what will likely have resulted in higher cost of public transport, the Straits Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Singapore’s public transport fare review mechanism takes into account inflation and average wage changes in the preceding year, meaning operators SMRT (SMRT.SI) and ComfortDelgro (CMDG.SI) would have gotten the greenlight to raise fares at the next review.
Fifteen people were killed and 11 injured Monday in a huge explosion in a passenger bus in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A police official said the blast was caused as the CNG fuel tank burst after an accident. The blast took place in Kohat town in the bus that was coming from Hangu. The injured [...]
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Twenty-two tourists, including 13 children and four women, were killed when their bus overturned and fell into a ditch on the outskirts of this Uttarakhand capital, police said Thursday. Twelve passengers were seriously wounded and 10 got minor injuries in the accident Wednesday night near the Shiv Mandir village, seven kilometres from here. The bus [...]
Unknown hooligans, most likely Dinamo Zagreb FC fans, have attacked and burned a Greek bus. The bus was used by the visiting supporters of Greece’s PAOK FC.
A bus carrying Partizan Belgrade basketball players has been attacked with stones in Croatia.
The incident happened on Sunday night, in the wake of the NLB league match in the Croatian town of Zadar.
A roadside bomb attack killed at least eight people Thursday in Southeast Turkey. Eight people were killed and three others, including a baby, were injured in the explosion.
Thousands of people rallied in Hong Kong Sunday, demanding justice for eight locals killed in a bus hijacking in the Philippines. Demonstrators voiced their anger over the Philippine government’s handling of the siege in the heart of Manila Monday.
Just when you think you have pretty much seen and heard everything on the problems of and solutions to chronic road congestion in urban areas…
There’s something called the ‘straddling bus’ concept in China that is apparently being seriously proposed over there.
It looks like a cross between a RoRo ferry, catamaran, tram and a bendy bus on steroids. The promotional video is well worth a look. Is it serious? They do have appalling traffic congestion in Chinese cities – vehicle parc growing all the time with 10% pa GDP growth and a humungous auto industry now present - and air pollution is something they are very concerned about.
Maybe it could work on selective busy dual carriageways, no turning for cars. Can’t quite see it on the Euston Road.
Would you drive under one? Watch the video and try and keep a straight face.
In the northern Philippines, at least 41 people have died after a bus lost control and plunged into a 50 metre ravine. It’s believed the vehicle had mechanical problems with the driver unable to change gear. Some 47 people were on board.
Three people were killed and 14 injured after a head-on collision between a truck and a tourist bus on the old highway between Veria and Thessaloniki.
A bus driver, a priest who was accompanying the children on the bus, and a truck driver lost their lives, Greek media have reported.
Three people have been killed and nine others wounded in a blast near a bus transporting soldiers in Istanbul, Turkish media have reported. One of the three victims was a child, says the BBC’s Jonathan Head in Istanbul. Some of the soldiers had family members on the bus.
A bus full of Czech citizens swerved off the road near Novigrad in Croatia. About 20 passengers suffered slight injuries. According to initial information from the scene, the Czech driver lost control of the bus, which landed in a four-meter deep ditch and flipped onto its side.
Sir Paul McCartney was reportedly left shaken after his tour bus was attacked by a group of thugs in Mexico on Friday night.
The Beatles legend performed at the Foro Sol arena in Mexico City on Thursday and Friday to huge crowds of fans.
But things took an ugly turn after the tour bus entered an impoverished [...]
Pussycat Dolls popstar Nicole Scherzinger flashed her Dancing With The Stars trophy on an open-top bus parade in New York.
The 31-year-old singer, after reaching New York, went to Manhattan with Derek Hough, her partner on the show, to celebrate their victory.
Scherzinger also posted pictures of the bus trip on her Twitter page, reports The [...]
ComfortDelgro (C52.SG) is off 0.7% at $1.48 in thin trade as mild 1Q10 profit growth not enough to draw buyers, according to Dow Jones.
“We believe the upcoming revamp of the bus networks in Singapore will squeeze margins (while) the company’s various overseas investments will bring additional forex risks which are not compensated by stronger earnings growth prospects,” says Royal Bank of Scotland, which has a Sell call with $1.35 target.
Afghan officials say NATO troops opened fire on a bus in southern Afghanistan Monday, killing at least four people and wounding 18 others. A spokesman for Kandahar province says the shooting happened Monday morning as the bus was heading from Kandahar to the western city of Herat. A woman and a child were among the four killed.
A bus in which 28 of the 37 passengers were children caught fire on the Belgrade-Zagreb highway near the village of Brodski Stupnik. The children were returning from a taekwondo competition in Serbia.
