Current fleet of Tbilisi yellow minibuses to be replaced this year
Tbilisi City Hall has reduced the number of minibuses operating in Tbilisi from 3,000 to only 1,000; Kaladze says that the rest of the routes will be served by eight-meter buses. Photo: 1TV.
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Current fleet of yellow minibuses (marshrutkas) in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi will be fully replaced with new minibuses by the end of 2021, announces Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze.
In addition Tbilisi City Hall has reduced the number of minibuses operating in Tbilisi from 3,000 to only 1,000; Kaladze says that the rest of the routes will be served by eight-meter buses.
The negotiations with the Tbilisi Minibus Company [which has been operating a yellow minibus fleet in Tbilisi since 2011] have almost been completed. The company will attract finances to purchase 300 minibuses procured by us. In addition it will purchase another 400 minibuses", said Kaladze.
Kaladze added that Tbilisi City Hall plans to purchase an additional 180 new eight-meter buses and 200 eighteen-meter buses as well.
Tbilisi City Hall will open the tender in the coming days, Kaladze added.
A total of 180 new minibuses will start serving passengers in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi starting Monday, February 22, announces Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze. Kaladze said that the plan is to replace the current outdated fleet of yellow minibuses (marshrutkas) in Tbilisi with 300 new Ford minibuses.
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126 new 12-meter buses produced by Turkish company BMC will start serving passengers of Georgian capital city of Tbilisi starting tomorrow, announced Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze today.
The current outdated fleet of yellow minibuses (marshrutkas) in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi will soon be replaced by 300 new Ford minibuses that will appear in the city step-by-step six months, announces Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze.
A new integrated public transport system will be launched in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi starting April 1, which will enable passengers to travel by metro, buses and minibuses for an hour and a half with a one-time ticket, announces deputy Tbilisi Mayor Irakli Khmaladze in his interview with the local media outlet Interpressnews.
After the full introduction of the new transport network in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi, the waiting time for public transport will be reduced to four minutes on average, while the capacity of buses increases 2.5 times, says deputy Tbilisi Mayor Irakli Khmaladze.
Tbilisi City Hall announced today that one-time fare for public transport will be 1 GEL instead of 50 tetri starting next year, noting that if individuals buy one-year card for 250 GEL, they will spend about 20 GEL in the public transport monthly.
Current fleet of yellow minibuses in Georgia's capital of Tbilisi will be fully replaced with new blue minibuses in February, Tbilisi Transport and Urban Development Agency reported earlier today.