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Buses from the
Rest of the World ... Macau - a snapshot - March 2013 |
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Buses from the
Rest of the World ... Macau - a snapshot - March 2013 |
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| Macau
is served by three bus
operators and below is a brief overview with photographs taken in March
2013 by Bobby Liu
unless otherwise stated. My thanks to Bobby and Joe Wong for providing
the photographs for this update. Sociedade
de Transportes Colectivos de Macau (TCM).
The company began as ferry operator in the 1950s, but did not enter bus operations until 1974 when a bridge connecting the mainland with Macau and Taipa (Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho) was finished. In late 2009, TCM was disqualified from a tender to operate public bus services from late 2010, the reason being the company was four minutes late to submit its tender proposal. After several months of opposition, TCM was awarded one of five batches of routes for operation commencing in August 2011. |
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| MK-87-01 | MK-87-02 |
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| MK-87-39 | ML-21-73 |
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| A recent addition to the fleet is this
Wuzhoulong FDG6101CNG. It is the first non-diesel public bus
in Macau and fitted with a vehicle height adjusting device. |
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| Above photograph courtesy and copyright of Joe Wong | |
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Transportes
Urbanos de Macau S.A.R.L. (Transmac),
Transmac has operated bus services in Macau since 1988. |
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| D26 MK-69-82 | D46 MK-83-44 |
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| D50 MK-85-64 | K89 MN-50-76 |
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K120
MQ-17-66
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R323 MQ-70-85 |
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Reolian Public Transport
Co. (Reolian).
This company was founded in 2009 after an invitation to a tender organized by the government of Macau. One of the objectives of the tender was to liberalise the public bus service market by opening this market to more bus operators by grouping the 60 Macau bus lines into five different sections. In this configuration, up to five different bus operators would have the chance to operate. The fleet consists solely of Yutong single-deckers purchased in 2011, to three different lengths. Fleets nos. 3001-3087 are 10.6 metre ZK6118HGE, fleet nos. 2001-2070 are 9.6 metre ZK6902HG and fleet nos. 1001-1088 are 7 metre ZK6770HG. |
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| 3017 MP-57-90 | 3018 MP-58-01 |
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| 3022 MP-58-97 | 3024 MP-57-87 |
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| 3033 MP-58-42 | 3039 MP-57-66 |
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| 3085 MP-59-06 | 3066 MP-58-21 |
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