New buses for Tbilisi transport fleet, housing for families in City Hall’s 2023 plans
Kaladze said on Wednesday his office would purchase the previously announced 18-metre-long buses to add to the public transport fleet in the city, and would also build a bus depot to ensure maintenance for the vehicles. Photo: tbilisi.gov.ge
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New buses will join the municipal transport fleet in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi this year while socially underprivileged families will receive accommodation, Mayor Kakha Kaladze said in comments on the City Hall’s plans for the year.
Kaladze said on Wednesday his office would purchase the previously announced 18-metre-long buses to add to the public transport fleet in the city, and would also build a bus depot to ensure maintenance for the vehicles.
He also noted city authorities had plans to add 200 new buses to municipal transport routes “over the next few years”.
About 80 homeless families will receive municipal accommodation throughout the year, with Kaladze saying the City Hall wanted to ensure there was “no homeless person [left] in the capital”.
The Mayor also announced socially vulnerable pensioners would again receive ₾500 ($187) vouchers for purchasing prescribed medications, in a social support programme from city authorities.
The City Hall's plans also include demolishing 25 dilapidated residential buildings and providing the families in the blocks with new housing.
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Fifty-five families living in Vake and Saburtalo districts of the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi have received ownership documents of their flats, which they could not register for years, announces Tbilisi City Hall.
Acting Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has announced that socially vulnerable pensioners will receive 500 GEL vouchers to purchase various prescribed medications. At the municipal government session held earlier today, Kaladze said the new program will cost 20 million GEL and have 40,000 beneficiaries.
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has presented 40 new ISUZU buses which will serve passengers in the capital starting January 23, stating Tbilisi City Hall has plans to purchase 200, new 18-meter-long buses “in the near future.”
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Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze on Wednesday said his office would purchase 160 new 18-metre-long buses “in the first stage” of the latest push to update and expand the public transport fleet in the Georgian capital.
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze on Wednesday said his office would introduce 160 new buses for the Georgian capital, with the fleet expected to begin running in the city starting in April 2024.
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze on Tuesday said 50 out of the 160 18-metre-long MAN buses newly purchased by his office would be introduced to the public transport fleet in the Georgian capital next month.