Gauteng’s Ismail Vadi hails dual benefits of new dual-fuel buses
BY DECEMBER‚ the City of Johannesburg will have 181 buses operating on dual fuel.That’s according to Gauteng MEC for Transport Ismail Vadi‚ who on Tuesday officially launched the fleet of buses which "will use a combination of diesel and gas".While the "clean and green buses" will "contribute to reduced air pollution and carbon emissions"‚ Vadi focused on the fact that the "plans commit us to advance job creation‚ including in green jobs and the bus manufacturing sector"."With a minimum of six jobs being created to fuel one bus for a year‚ we are looking at no less than 600 jobs for every 100 buses running on biocrop gas."He noted that biogas "can come from a range of sources‚ including from sewerage‚ landfill sites and biocrops"‚ and the city of "is presently piloting growing biocrops in some areas south of Johannesburg‚ which is also leading to job creation".Vadi highlighted that the bus bodies were built at Busmark’s factory using 96% local content — above the Department of Trade...
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