MAN Nutzfahrzeuge awarded two major orders totaling 131 city buses
2010-07-30
MAN Nutzfahrzeuge has been awarded two major orders totaling 131 city buses. The modern MAN Lion's City low-floor buses will be going into oper-ation on the streets of Warsaw (Poland) and Halmstad (Sweden).
The order from Warsaw's public transport authority is for 70 MAN city buses to be delivered by the end of the year. Warsaw is acquiring 18-meter long low-floor articulated buses in the eco-friendly EEV version. The buses are designed for ease of use by the physically challenged and are also equipped with high-performance air-conditioning systems as well as automatic counting systems for passengers getting on and off.
In Sweden, MAN is to deliver 61 MAN Lion's City buses to Arriva, a private transportation company. Thirty of them will be delivered with especially eco-friendly natural-gas engines. The buses will be going into operation in the Swedish city of Halmstad, where Arriva has taken over responsibility for the local public transportation system. This means that all routes in Halmstad will be exclusively served by MAN buses.
According to Arriva, the decision to acquire MAN buses was made because of their excellent economy and eco-friendliness, good service, and MAN's outstanding competence in the field of bus engines. Arriva is Europe's second-largest private transportation company, operating a fleet of 16,000 buses.