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With the acquisition of multi-axle buses, the State Express Transport Corporation (SETC) is hoping to vie with backstage autobus operators successful presumption of rider comfortableness and safety. The SETC volition soon beryllium operating its archetypal multi-axle buses, purchased from Volvo.
A elder authoritative of the SETC said the multi-axle buses, expected to ply successful the State by December this year, would acceptable a benchmark successful presumption of rider comfortableness and driving ergonomics.
A full of 20 buses would beryllium operational successful the archetypal phase, the authoritative added.
Transport Minister S.S. Sivasankar, on with Transport Secretary Shunchonngam Jatak Chiru and elder officials of the SETC, inspected the buses being readied astatine the Volvo manufacturing installation successful Bengaluru connected Wednesday.
The elder SETC authoritative said the Volvo buses operated by the Metropolitan Transport Corporation in the metropolis were azygous axle buses, whereas the multi-axle buses purchased for the SETC are bigger successful size (15 metres against the mean 12 metres), and person further abstraction and comfort.
