A total of one thousand new buses will be delivered to Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent from China before May. Reportedly, seven hundred vehicles will be gas-powered, and another three hundred will be electric buses. Currently, the French company is designing the feasibility study of the tram line from the North Station to the New Uzbekistan Park, media reports.
Ikrom Shodiev, an expert on marketing projects and the foreign economic relations department of Toshshahartranshizmat, said that thousands of new buses are expected to arrive in Uzbekistan in April.
'In a bid to reduce the volume of harmful substances emitted into the air by public transport, as part of the renewal program, it was decided to purchase a thousand new modern buses in the first quarter of the current year, Ikrom Shodiev said, stressing that of these one thousand buses, seven hundred will run on compressed natural gas. Three hundred will run entirely on electricity.
Contracts for the purchase of buses have been inked with Chinese companies King Long and Yutong. Under the agreements, the buses are scheduled to be delivered at the end of February.
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