Public transport to be transferred to EcoFuel in Kazakhstan
17:10, 3 February 2014
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - In Kazakhstan public transport will be transferred to pollution-free fuel, according to the first deputy Prime Minister Bakytzshan Sagintaev.
"There is an instruction of the President. We need to organize a widespread transfer of public transport to pollution-free fuels", noted B.Sagintayev speaking at the board meeting of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Administration of Astana city in 2014 plans to purchase 350 buses running on natural gas. "Transfer of vehicles from petrol to gas will reduce emissions of harmful substances by 5 times", added B. Sagintayev.