The Messenger - Shortage of buses in Tbilisi <link type="text/css" href="/styles.css" rel="stylesheet"/> </head> <body> <a href="http://www.messenger.com.ge"> <img src="/images/header.gif" alt="The messenger logo" width="700" border="0"/></a> <ul id="links"> <li><a href="/index.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/aboutus.html">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="/subscriptions.html">Subscription</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:gtze@messenger.com.ge">E-mail Us</a></li> </ul> <div class="single-page-content"> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script>  <h1 class="title center"> Shortage of buses in Tbilisi </h1>  <div class="by"> By <i>Messenger</i> Staff <i></i> </div>  <div class="date"> Wednesday, May 5 </div>  <div class="entry"> The introduction of yellow buses, which have largely replaced the minibuses or Marshrutkas which used to be the most common means of public transport in the city, has been considered to be one of the achievements of the Tbilisi municipality. Experts state that to satisfy all the capital's transport requirements over 1,000 yellow buses are needed, but there are a bit more than 900 buses functioning in Tbilisi at present. <br><br> These yellow buses cost the municipality over GEL 64 million. First around 300 Dutch-produced buses were introduced but later smaller Ukrainian buses of the Bogdan type were added to these. <br><br> Georgia also used to have a trolley bus and tram infrastructure. Both these transportation means are very effective economically and ecologically clean, as they do not pollute the atmosphere. Unfortunately however both these forms of transport have disappeared from Tbilisi streets since the Rose Revolution. Some analysts think that this is because of the influence of the forces which introduced the buses to Tbilisi and supply their fuel. <br><br> </div> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> <div id="footer"> Copyright © 2007 The Messenger. All rights reserved. Please read our <a href='/disclaimer.html'>disclaimer</a> before using any of the published materials. <div align="center">  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://s29.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s29georgianmessenger"> </script> <noscript> <a href="http://s29.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s29georgianmessenger" target="_top"> <img src="http://s29.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=s29georgianmessenger" alt="Site Meter" border="0"/></a> </noscript>  </div> </div> </body> </html>