{"id":64717,"date":"2023-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/64717\/lebanons-donated-french-buses-to-stop-operating-soon"},"modified":"2023-08-30T03:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T03:57:47","slug":"lebanons-donated-french-buses-to-stop-operating-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/64717\/lebanons-donated-french-buses-to-stop-operating-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon’s Donated French Buses To Stop Operating Soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to L’Orient Today<\/a>, Beirut’s newly minted French buses<\/a> may be off the roads just one month after launching. In December, the Ministry of Transport and the country’s public transport authority had sent out 10 of the 50 donated buses onto five routes in the capital. Today, a lack of funds may bring even this limited operation down.<\/p>

The state authority running the buses receives around 13 billion L.L. in funding, the equivalent of $270,800 at the current exchange rate. This has led to problems with maintenance, staffing, and even just paying for fuel to run the vehicles. Speaking to L’Orient Today, the authority official Antoine Sahyouni confirmed this, stating that the buses have \u201cmaybe a week, maybe ten days, maybe five days. It depends, but not more than that.\u201d<\/p>

<\/a> 2022-12-19 pic.twitter.com\/onVSd3LVJl<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Ali Hamie | (@alihamie_lb) December 19, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>