{"id":17251,"date":"2023-09-16T21:55:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T16:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17251"},"modified":"2023-09-16T21:55:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T16:25:54","slug":"double-decker-buses-16-09-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/16-09-2023\/double-decker-buses-16-09-2023","title":{"rendered":"Double-decker Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/Urban Infrastructure\/Transportation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Context:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Iconic double-decker buses of Mumbai retire after 8 decades of service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About the iconic double-decker buses:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It was<strong> introduced in 1937<\/strong>, which was <strong>based on London\u2019s double-decker.<\/strong> It primarily covered the routes in south Bombay, and by the early 1990s, nearly 900 double-decker buses as part of its fleet to commute throughout the Mumbai city.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Currently, the fleet includes a total of seven double-decker buses, including three open-deck buses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/double-decker-bus.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/09\/double-decker-bus.png 264w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/09\/double-decker-bus-150x102.png 150w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/09\/double-decker-bus-218x150.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It had driven home its own unique flavour of love, laced with the struggles of Mumbai\u2019s middle class across many films by the mid-70s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Phasing out:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) authorities have decided to phase out diesel-run, non-air-conditioned double-decker buses as part of modernisation and operational cost-cutting measures.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BEST started replacing these iconic buses with leased battery-run red and black double-decker buses, equipped with modern facilities such as automatic doors and CCTV cameras.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These buses are likely to help BEST in reducing its carbon footprint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/52047\/OPS\/GPDBOORJI.1+GT0BOPND5.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source: TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: GS3\/Urban Infrastructure\/Transportation Context: About the iconic double-decker buses: Phasing out: Source: TH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17255,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251\/revisions\/17255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}