Purchases - USA - Bond act funds may boost upstate bus and tech firms
Binghamton, Syracuse,N.Y.,USA -WSTM-TV, by Bob Joseph -Feb 25, 2006: -- Three upstate companies stand to benefit from the 50 (m) million dollars being made available to New York public transit systems over the next five years... The money is part of the two-point-nine (b) billion dollar transportation bond act approved by state voters last November... Madison told the bond act money could make it easier for transit systems to afford to buy hybrid-electric buses made by Orion Bus Industries in the Utica area... Two other upstate companies --BAE Systems and Harris Assembly Group, both near Binghamton -- provide work on the vehicles... Madison noted the hybrid buses cost more than traditional diesel vehicles but are less polluting and have lower maintenance costs...
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