Court reserves order in Blueline phase out
By IANSThursday, January 20, 2011
NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Thursday reserved its judgment on the fate of privately-owned and run Blueline buses, blamed for hundreds of deaths on city roads and proposed to be phased out by Jan 31.
The order on the phase out of the last of the batches of Blueline buses was reserved by the division bench of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Suresh Kait.
The Delhi government argued that Blueline buses must be phased out from the national capital as these were a threat to commuters.
The Blueline bus operators asserted that they be allowed to ply on the roads till the private low-floor buses were introduced in several clusters to replace them. They also sought participation in the allotment of clusters.
The government Dec 27, 2010 announced that more than 1,200 Blueline buses will be phased out from the capital’s roads by the end of the year, and replaced by private low-floor buses.
The government has so far cleared five clusters, a system under which the over 600 public transport bus routes in the city have been divided among 17 clusters.
