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Tbilisi Mayor Kaladze: ‘Tbilisi City Hall is going to purchase 380 new buses in 2022’

Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze said that old buses and minibuses will be totally replaced, and the municipal transport problem will finally be solved. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.

Agenda.ge, 16 Dec 2021 - 15:34, Tbilisi,Georgia

Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze said Tbilisi City Hall is going to purchase 380 new buses in 2022.

Kaladze also noted that old buses and minibuses will be totally replaced, and the municipal transport problem will finally be solved next year.

Tbilisi City Hall will purchase 180 units of 8-meter buses and 200 18-meter buses. New blue minibuses will be imported to Georgia by the end of this year, which means that the old yellow minibuses will be completely replaced in the first quarter of 2022,” Kaladze said.

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