HK buses to go greener
Source: Xinhua |
March 19, 2010, Friday
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MORE than 40 percent of existing franchised buses in Hong Kong will be retired by 2015 in an effort to promote wider use of environment-friendly buses, the local authority said on Wednesday.
Edward Yau, Secretary for the Environment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, told lawmakers if all pre-Euro, Euro I and Euro II commercial vehicles including franchised buses are retired, the economic benefit will be about 24.3 billion HK dollars (US$3.1 billion).
He noted that bus companies must adopt the latest commercially available and proven environmental technologies when setting specifications for acquiring new buses, under a franchise requirement. All franchised bus companies in Hong Kong are required to operate their franchised bus services with buses under the age of 18.
The local government has also been working with the franchised bus companies to have them deploy more environment friendly buses to serve the busiest corridors.
Different options are being explored to reduce bus emissions, including accelerated replacement of old buses, bus route rationalization, establishing low emission zones, and assessing the feasibility of retrofitting selective catalytic reduction devices onto Euro II and III buses to reduce their NOx emissions.
Edward Yau, Secretary for the Environment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, told lawmakers if all pre-Euro, Euro I and Euro II commercial vehicles including franchised buses are retired, the economic benefit will be about 24.3 billion HK dollars (US$3.1 billion).
He noted that bus companies must adopt the latest commercially available and proven environmental technologies when setting specifications for acquiring new buses, under a franchise requirement. All franchised bus companies in Hong Kong are required to operate their franchised bus services with buses under the age of 18.
The local government has also been working with the franchised bus companies to have them deploy more environment friendly buses to serve the busiest corridors.
Different options are being explored to reduce bus emissions, including accelerated replacement of old buses, bus route rationalization, establishing low emission zones, and assessing the feasibility of retrofitting selective catalytic reduction devices onto Euro II and III buses to reduce their NOx emissions.
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