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Posted by New Brunswick Station on Wed Jan 4 10:51:52 2006, in response to The Buses of Puerto Rico, posted by New Brunswick Station on Wed Jan 4 10:31:26 2006. I had more luck with the cozy isle of Dominica (although the buses I found there mostly seemed to belong to the tourist trade, there apparently is a bus service). Properly speaking, this is a van, not a bus. However, this was our sightseeing vehicle. Notice something weird - the absence of the center door? Well, Dominica, as a recently emancipated former British colony, drives on the British (left-hand) side of the road, so (of course) its people go about buying up vehicles straight from Japan (another British-side-of-the-road country).  Here, we see parts of vehicles to the right. This is practically in front of the cruise port in Roseau (it's a small city, and it's a one-liner port), and those are likely to be tourism-related.  This sort of sleek tourist bus can be found in many small islands of the Caribbean (in both left-side-of-the-road and right-side countries). The buses have a great view out the window, but they also have abominable legroom, with seats that fold out into the tiny aisle to accommodate more passengers. Other buses and vans for tourists on those islands also commonly have those folding seats and lousy legroom. The buses and vans generally hail from Japan.  Parking lot of the national park. The buses are typical in size for those of Dominica, ranging from van-size to minibus size.      This is an older bus, running around in the 1970s, that got pwn3d by a tree in a hurricane. The tree continued to grow. The bus just sat there. This is in the national botanical garden, which mainly consists of varieties of tree, and which may have sprung up around the incident (for all I know). Dominica does not yet have a well-developed tourism industry, but it is popular among "ecotourists", or so I've heard. |
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