Indian TATA won the tender of 8,000 buses for Karachi city

[Bushroda]

yaar seriously, the Daewoo buses in Pakistan are way better than TATA. heck even the Pindi - Karachi air conditiones local buses are better.

You are comparing inter-city delux buses with city transport buses. These kinda delux & semi-delux buses operate in India too.

http://www.southdelhitravel.com/manali-hotels.html

On a separate note, most of the transport buses on the streets of delhia are not DTC buses but private ones, which are in an awful condition. i seriously think indian govt shud think of replacing those buses with something better.

DTC along with BlueLine Transport Corporation accounts for 97% of bus traffic in Delhi. Moreover, any private operator has to get permit from Delhi's State Transport Authority before it can start the service. State Transport Authority has already issued directive to all the operators to change their buses to low-floor high capacity buses which has been challenged in Supreme court at the moment.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/17/stories/2007051711810400.htm

DTC is planning to replace all its buses with low floor high capacity Tata buses by 2010 before the start of Commonwealth games.

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[Contrarian]

On a separate note, most of the transport buses on the streets of delhia are not DTC buses but private ones, which are in an awful condition. i seriously think indian govt shud think of replacing those buses with something better.

Its mostly DTC buses now, Metro has changed a lot on the transport scene in Delhi.

 

[Skull-Buster]

Its mostly DTC buses now, Metro has changed a lot on the transport scene in Delhi.

yaar i was in delhi last december, and the majority of buses on the streets were the private owned ones (green on top and yellow at the bottom). the new DTC buses have started to come in, they are quite good, but it will take time to replace the old fleet. but slowly buses will be less important in delhi as the metro is spreading to alot of parts of the city.

 

[Skull-Buster]

You are comparing inter-city delux buses with city transport buses. These kinda delux & semi-delux buses operate in India too.

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no i was comparing the air conditioned transport buses of Karachi with the new TATA buses.

i have been on the deluxe inter city buses in india too, from delhi to amritsar.

 

[Bushroda]

no i was comparing the air conditioned transport buses of Karachi with the new TATA buses.

Thats a different play altogether. Most of public transport buses would be non-AC. DTC is in the process of introducing 25 AC buses in the first phase. This is the model of the Tata's AC bus.

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[HAIDER]

Adux zindabad......lolzz
Let's see what TATA send Karachi...

 

[Awesome]

For god sakes they are busses! One dabba is like the other dabba. It should have ACs in them and the seats should be comfortable, leg room.

 

[Bushroda]

Even at a conservative rate of Rs.1million per Bus($25000). 8000 buses would cost around over $200 million. Damn good business TATA made

 

[Contrarian]

yaar i was in delhi last december, and the majority of buses on the streets were the private owned ones (green on top and yellow at the bottom). the new DTC buses have started to come in, they are quite good, but it will take time to replace the old fleet. but slowly buses will be less important in delhi as the metro is spreading to alot of parts of the city.

Yeah, the old buses are being phased out, plus in most of the routes that Metro plies, the number of buses operating on that route drops down drastically. Most of the buses on those routes stop generating enough revenue.

And now the Metro is going to Gurgaon, Noida, etc, etc. Apart from covering almost all of Delhi.
All will be done in time for the Commonwealth Games.

 

[Bull]

I aint a fan of TATA buses, they are cheap cost wise and quality wise.

 

[Bull]

For god sakes they are busses! One dabba is like the other dabba. It should have ACs in them and the seats should be comfortable, leg room.

And who will pay for the services? Its for basic transport, meant for jampacking people. Just for taking people from one point to another point. TATA can provide only that. Anything more than that best Indian bet is Ashok Leyland not the TATAs.

 

[Shehz]

The Pakistani brand of 'Bedford' is British Leyland.
The investor's in Pakistan are permitted to keep their original name.

Back to TATA buses, Rs. 10 Lacs for an airconditioned bus, that's a heck of a deal.
Even the Suzuki car (Maruti) costs more than that.

Hope TATA does a decent job, that'll ensure more TATA's plying in other cities as well.

 

[MirBadshah]

Shehz,

Suzuki APV costs 10,65000 in Pakistan this buss will be cheaper the Suzuki, but question is thats crude technology decades old and emission level from such technology is quite high, on one side we are converting our transport on CNG and Pakistani manufecturers are producing CNG busses on otherside we are buying TATA, this whole thing dont make much sense, I think there must be a study of enviornmental impect of these busses.

Espacially if the elevated express way project in Karachi is materialise these busses will become a health hazerd, price is secondry thing, government have to make sure that they dont buy substanderd stuff with public funds only because its cheap.

 

[Shehz]

We are thinking 10 Lacs per bus my friend, and that's why it's Karachi specific only.
Once internal rail network, and metro has been completed, Karachi mayor will either retire the busses, or donate them: evenly distributed throughout urban Sindh.

Mir, it's only a short term plan (untill Hino starts mass production of the CNG buses) to cover the shortfall. After all, Karachi is the 8th largest city on the globe, Karachiites need transportation.

 

[BATMAN]

8000 buses would cost around over $200 million

What is wrong with Mayor of Karachi.
Two years ago, I have seen under the hood of small TATA car, it appeard to me a prototype built in some garage.