Tag: bus

LTFRB releases special bus permits

QUEZON City, Philippines – The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board released 500 special bus permits in order to accommodate the rush of passengers this holiday season. The special permits are in effect starting today December 23 until January 3, with Northern Luzon, Bicol region and Visayas routes having the most number of permits released. https://youtu.be/sifY0UclrC0    

18 killed in central China bus accident

CHINA (Reuters) –Eighteen people got killed early on Friday when a mini-bus carrying 20 veered off road into a lake in central China’s Hubei Province, according to local authorities. All the deceased were reportedly in their sixties and seventies. The two survivors including the mini-bus driver are receiving hospital treatment. Their injuries are not life-threatening. The driver surnamed Li is already put under police custody. Ma Yichun, a local work safety and supervision official from […]

Residents in east Aleppo flee on government buses as Syrian army advances

ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) — Several thousand residents of rebel-held eastern Aleppo fled shifting frontlines, sources said on Sunday (November 27) after a rapid advance by the Syrian army and allied forces. Fleeing residents were temporarily transported by green government buses to the Rizz crossing point in Kurdish-controlled western Bustan al Basha in Aleppo, before being moved to shelters in government-controlled territories. The army and its allies took control on Saturday (November 26) of the large […]

Tour bus crash kills 10 in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — At least 10 people were killed and seven others seriously injured after their tour bus crashed and caught fire on a highway near South Korea’s southeastern city of Ulsan, police said Friday. Although the precise cause of the accident is still under investigation, the driver of the bus was taken into custody for questioning about the vehicle’s maintenance record. The bus was carrying 20 people late Thursday night when one […]

Lesser number of bus in Metro Manila by 2018

QUEZON City, Philippines – There will be a reduction of the thousand of buses that traverse Metro Manila by 2018 after the government finishes the two inter-modal bus stations. In the second Senate hearing regarding the giving of emergency powers to the President to alleviate traffic, the officials of the Department of Transportation said that the Duterte administration targets the completion of two inter-modal bus terminals in south and south-west Metro Manila by 2018. The […]

Bus on Fire on SLEX

At around six in the morning, a bus was on fire on the South Luzon Express or SLEX. The location of the said bus on fire was near Alabang, Muntinlupa.