Second Indian LoC: 1100 BRTC buses, trucks ready to roll tomorrow

[Black_cats]

Second Indian LoC
1100 BRTC buses, trucks ready to roll tomorrow
Munima Sultana | Published: March 10, 2019 09:20:09 | Updated: March 10, 2019 13:14:58

The Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) has added 600 more Indian air-conditioned (AC), non-AC and double-decker buses and 500 trucks to its fleet.

The state transport entity got the commuter and freight vehicles under the country's second line of credit (LoC) facility from its next-door neighbour.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will launch the new BRTC service from Gonobhaban tomorrow (Monday) after talking with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi through videoconferencing.

Official sources said the premiers would be connected through a video call around 01:00 pm for the roll-out.

The BRTC Motijheel Bus Depot will simultaneously be hooked up to Gonobhaban to show the imported buses.

On the occasion, three more India-aided projects-11 water treatment plants at Bhandaria, 36 community clinics in five districts and extension of national knowledge network-will also be launched.

Of the total imported buses and trucks, BRTC officials said, nearly 100 buses and 100 trucks have already reached Bangladesh and are kept at different depots.

BRTC chairman Farid Ahmed Bhuiyan said the buses would run as both city service and intercity service.

Some buses would also ply long routes, he said, adding that new double-deckers would run in Dhaka city only.

Under the second LoC, the BRTC signed an agreement to procure 100 single-decker AC city, 100 single-decker AC intercity and 300 double-decker buses from Indian automaker Ashok Leyland.

Tata Motors will supply 100 single-decker non-AC and 150 trucks of 10.2 tonnes.

Another 350 trucks with 16.2-tonne capacity will also be procured under the Indian credit.

The total cost of the BRTC bus and truck purchase projects was Tk 6.83 billion. Of the money, Tk 4.66 billion comes under the LoC.

Currently, the state-owned bus operator has 920 buses and 85 trucks in operation.

Mr Bhuiyan said the trucks are usually used for the transportation of state goods.

smunima@yahoo.com

 

[Gandh brandi]

Are the buses low-floor models? Even the airport shuttle buses aren't low-floor last I saw.

 

[Bilal9]

Are the buses low-floor models? Even the airport shuttle buses aren't low-floor last I saw.

Low floor or High floor, these aren't even the best city buses offered by Indian Manufacturers, not to mention commuter buses. Any bus built on a proper bus platform (and not a truck chassis) will automatically be lower floor. Now some low floor buses can kneel (local city buses in Los Angeles) and even take in folks in wheelchairs. I am 100% sure these don't have that capability. By the way most city buses in the US are now at least hybrid (and some fully electric meaning non combustion variety).

Tata has JV with Spanish bus custom body manufacturers (Marco Polo or Irizar?) and the latter can make some state of the art commuter bus examples rolling on wheels. Take a gander....yes the first one is a four axle double decker commuter model called Paradiso.

In use in Brazil...

I don't think these four axle ones have been imported to India, but India does have some three-axle double deckers like our market. These are MAN double deckers used by Green Line.

In any case city bus situation is different. So far we have received mostly Ashok Leyland (AL) buses known for spontaneous self-combustion of the wrong variety (granted some of it due to BRTC b*st*rds not maintaining them properly).

http://www.daily-sun.com/post/236456/BRTC-doubledecker-bus-catches-fire-in-Savar

@Shimz bhai was one of our bus experts - but haven't seen him around lately.

In any case AL and Tata city buses are (to put it mildly) 'disposable'.

Maximum life two years in our environment. They don't last too much longer in India either.

This is the latest AL model delivered last year (2018 model? and a rather low floor)

and previous model from 2013...not so low floor looks like)

 

[Sugarcane]

Till now only Pakistanis were calling Bangladesh satellite state of India, Are you now acknowledging it by calling International border Line of Control?

 

[Sheena1980]

Any close relation or development happens in BD or trade between India & BD, Pak will soon brand it as sattelite/slave, etc. Jealousy showing full face.

They don't realize they are the real satellite & slave state of china. All the major Gov.t buildings are pledged with the Chinese. Pakistan's major economic bet for a major economic turnaround is CPEC. China gave loans & still has a free pass to use Pakistan's roads & port. You pay interest & ownership to your master.

Pakistan can do nothing on its own. Even if it has to compare India's might, it will show Chinese military arsenal. Pakistan has to bend down with the Saudis & Arabs to get aid, free oil & jobs. Only capability Pakistan has shown & proven to the world is, how to play victim card or boot polish to impress its masters & then exploit them claiming as partners or portraying itself as the flag-bearer of Islam. As though Pakistan is the birth place of Islam.

Atleast BD has developed & overtaken Pakistan from their hardwork. They don't go running around world with a begging bowl. They are giving equal rights to women, educating them & bringing them to the mainstream.

The ideal BD which suits Pakistan is turmoil, to have hatred, border clashes & terrorism with India. If that was the case, then BD would be the best country. According to Pakistan, Muslims cannot have friendly relations with Hindus first, then Jews, then Christians followed by rest. Pakistan has a major stake & role in spoiling the name of Islam in the world.

 

[Bilal9]

Guys - can we keep politics off of this thread please?

It has almost nothing to do with South Asian politics.

A bus or a truck does not have religious props or stigma attached to it....it is simply judged for the price that was paid and the utility, reliability (and comfort) it offers compared to the price.

 

[Gandh brandi]

ITT: One dumbass misunderstands LoC as Line of Control instead of Line of Credit and starts firing about sub-continental geo-politics.

Sometimes I hate that Internet is so cheap these days. All the numb-nuts are coming out of the woods.

 

[Bilal9]

ITT: One dumbass misunderstands LoC as Line of Control instead of Line of Credit and starts firing about sub-continental geo-politics.

Sometimes I hate that Internet is so cheap these days. All the numb-nuts are coming out of the woods.

Some nuts are overloaded and marriage is an urgent need.