The Marmot’s Hole

8 Comments

1. Curious (a.k.a. Sewing)
   Posted August 10, 2005 at 1:09 am | Permalink

   I think I’ve seem some photos of buses like that in Vladivostok or some other such place in Far Eastern Russia.

   What’s interesting about Korean city buses is that they can only serve one route, since they’re plastered with permanent signs. In North America, a bus fleet can be used more efficiently because the signs on each bus can be changed for a different route. (/end OT comment)

2. Kushibo
   Posted August 10, 2005 at 2:01 am | Permalink

   Given that the Philippines (and some other places) are full of Korean taxis, this doesn’t surprise me all that much.

   Also, Korea’s disel-powered bus fleets are to be completely replaced by CNG (compressed natural gas)-powered buses by 2007. They’re well on the way, but those used diesel buses have to go somewhere.

   The joke’s on us, though, because all those particles will end up back here.

3. dogbert
   Posted August 10, 2005 at 2:07 am | Permalink

   I have a picture of a bus idling outside Vladivostok Station with a sign saying it is headed to Busan Station. Should have posted that two years ago.

4. Joshua
   Posted August 10, 2005 at 2:54 am | Permalink

   I rode old Korean buses all over the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. The Korean signs were gone and the buses were highly “personalized.”

5. Curious (a.k.a. Sewing)
   Posted August 10, 2005 at 5:08 am | Permalink

   “I have a picture of a bus idling outside Vladivostok Station with a sign saying it is headed to Busan Station.”

   Who knows? One day in the distant future, it may well be possible to take a bus from Vladivostok straight down the East Coast to Busan. (But I wouldn’t want to ride all that distance on a city bus….)

6. Kushibo
   Posted August 10, 2005 at 7:44 am | Permalink

   Curious, it would be a beautiful drive, worth taking at least once.

   But I would rather drive my own car.

7. dda
   Posted August 10, 2005 at 8:52 am | Permalink

   seen some in Saigon, going to ?????�. They were not customized at all
   Burma has a bunch of them too.

8. Charles
   Posted August 10, 2005 at 11:13 am | Permalink

   I saw quite a few Korean buses when I was in Mongolia (eight years ago).