Sentence examples for decrepit buses from inspiring English sources
Public transport consists mainly of packed, decrepit buses.
"Transit had been reduced largely to poor service on decrepit buses," writes Brian Ladd in Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age.
He travels on decrepit buses, visits the struggling poor and fellow radicals, tries to live "in solidarity with the working class" and comments broadly on the political scene.
Across South America, Africa and Asia, he goes along for the ride — on decrepit buses in Peru notorious for plunging off cliffs, on overladen ferries in Bangladesh that annually capsize, with exhausted Kenyan matatu (minibus) drivers as they hustle fares, and aboard Mumbai trains so choked with passengers that 20,706 died between 2003 and 2008.
A stone's throw from the impressive capital building, Gutiérrez stands in his workshop — a vacated lot that still holds the debris of a demolished building — surrounded by steam-powered trains and decrepit buses.
Commuters crammed into decrepit electric buses, packed as tightly as boxes of toothpicks.
Clouds of exhaust gas from decrepit diesel‐powered buses and autos without antipollution devices foul urban air in East ern Europe all year around.
And for the people who live there, this has resulted in decrepit commuter trains and buses, thousands of unsound bridges, 200 hazardous dams and one of the most inequitable public school systems in America.
The sun is shining, the lavender is scented, the food smells incredible, and if the buses are decrepit and the roads potholed, so what - there is one hell of a meal waiting at the end.
