60 new Isuzu buses to serve passengers in Tbilisi
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze said that the remaining 160 buses will gradually enter Tbilisi before the end of the year. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall press office.
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Sixty new Isuzu buses, purchased by Tbilisi Transport Company, have been presented by Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze earlier today, saying that remaining 160 buses will enter the capital city before the end of the year to replace outdated public transport.
Our goal is to replace the yellow bus fleet as soon as possible. They are outdated, uncomfortable and are polluting the environment,” Kaladze said.
The Euro 6 standard, diesel buses have been produced by Turkish Anadolu Group.
The buses are eight-meter-long. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall press office.
The total cost of the project [of all 220 buses] is about 22 million USD.
Each bus has 21 seats for 53 passengers and is adapted for people with disabilities.
Buses are equipped with wireless Internet and modern heating and conditioning systems, as well as cameras.
The buses are fully adapted for the people with disabilities. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall press office.
Passengers will be able to charge their phones while travelling.
The 60 buses will start taking passengers starting tomorrow.
Ninety green buses will gradually appear in the Georgian capital Tbilisi starting tomorrow and serve passengers, Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze stated in a live video from Poland today, where he visited the MAN factory.
Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi will be the first in the country to serve passengers with electric buses, as per an agreement signed between Batumi City Hall and the Belarussian electric car manufacturer Belkommunmash.
Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is continuing to modernise its public bus fleet by introducing 90 brand new, 10-meter long diesel operated buses.
Georgia is introducing new buses to operate routes between the country’s central airport to downtown Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital.
Tbilisi City Hall will purchase 100 more new buses in 2020, Mayor Kakha Kaladze said at a Tbilisi city government session today.
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze says that the current fleet of mini-buses (marshutkas) in the capital must be replaced staring in 2020 and has instructed Deputy Mayor Irakli Khmaladze to start negotiations with Tbilisi Minibus, a private company operating the marshutkas, for the process to begin as soon as possible.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will allocate €80 million to help Georgia purchase compressed natural gas (CNG) buses for Tbilisi, of which €65 million will be used for purchasing buses and €15 million for building a bus depot.
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has presented 54 new buses for the capital, as Tbilisi City Hall has plans to completely replace the outdated bus fleet by the beginning of next year. 38 of the new vehicles are ISUZU, eight-meter buses, while the remaining 16 are MAN, 10-meter buses.The diesel buses are of Euro 6 standard which are equipped with wireless Internet, modern heating and conditioning systems, cameras, phone chargers and are fully adapted for people with disabilities.
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has stated that an agreement has been made with Tbilisi Minibus Company through which the outdated fleet will be replaced starting next year without an increase in fare.