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8.12.05

GreenNews - USA - RTD to buy hybrid buses


Tracy,CAL,USA -Tracy Press, by Nick Juliano -Nov 2005: -- By next summer, regional transportation officials will start replacing exhaust-spewing diesel buses with more environmentally friendly hybrids to ferry residents around the county... San Joaquin Regional Transit District announced Wednesday it would purchase 50 diesel-electric hybrid buses that get nearly twice the gas mileage of older models. RTD is spending $24.5 million for the buses — about $500,000 each... RTD is paying for the buses with an $18 million federal transportation grant with the rest of the cost coming from the state... Ten other transit agencies from California, Nevada and New Mexico joined with RTD to purchase a total of 157 buses at a cost of $78 million from Gillig Corp., based in Hayward. Joining with the other agencies allowed RTD to save $2.5 million, the agency said.

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