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Mumbai's iconic MUTP buses retire, given tearful farewell
Updated On: 13 June, 2021 08:26 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
The iconic red Mumbai buses, that came to the city in 2005 with the purple local trains, retired on Saturday, after 15 years
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The bus was the first to have Fibreglass Reinforce Plastic (FRP) and a semi-aerodynamic shaped front, designed by Dilip Kumar Wagh, BEST’s deputy engineer in the drawing section
Mumbai’s braveheart MUTP bus, that had become the face of Mumbai’s public transport, retired on Saturday with a farewell and tears. They were named MUTP because they were procured with a World Bank loan in 2005 under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project-2, and the 644 buses had made an entry along with the purple local trains, which were introduced for the first time under the same project.
BEST employees cut cake for the bus on its last ride to Mulund
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