At times, Mr. Hollander added, other hotels have sent buses to central locations to pick up workers.

Finally, after three months, the United Nations just sent buses to the camp and brought the men straight to Bosnia, about a four-hour drive.

However, most churches, daycare centres and private schools still send buses around to pick up their congregants, patients or pupils.

A Collor supporter had sent buses through outlying shantytowns, offering people free sandwiches if they took part.

More than 50 companies send buses to the area.

Metro also admitted that although it had sent new buses to Southeast in 1983, the buses suffered from a high rate of breakdowns.

A number of companies send vans and buses over regular suburban routes to all three airports.

The police sent buses to the edge of the neighborhood to evacuate residents to temporary accommodations.

An innovation in the early 1970s was its Telebus service, which used a telephone/radio dispatching system to send buses to individual homes.

If the problems they fear do arise they will stop sending buses on to the estate.