NEW BUSES * USA
* 40 new buses to hit El Paso streets in 2009
El Paso,TX,USA -El Paso Times, by Gustavo Reveles Acosta -12 March 2008: -- Forty new natural-gas-powered buses were purchased by the city and should be on El Paso streets as part of the Sun Metro fleet early next year... The El Paso City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the purchase of the buses at a cost of $16.6 million. The city will pay $2.9 million out of its funds, and the balance will be paid with federal grant money... "It's about time they get new buses. The ones we have right now break down all the time and they're hot in the summer," said Gerardo Dominguez, a Central resident who was taking a bus transfer at San Jacinto Plaza on Tuesday... (Photo by Rudy Gutierrez / El Paso Times - Bus riders prepared to board Sun Metro bus 61 to Ysleta at Oregon and Franklin in Downtown El Paso on Tuesday)* New County buses cut pollution and noise
The transit authority's 27 new vehicles have exhaust systems that lessen soot by 90 percent
St. Petersburg,FL,USA -The St. Petersburg Times, by Michael Maharrey -March 12, 2008: -- Buses spewing clouds of black smoke will become a less familiar sight in Pinellas County over the next several weeks... The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority recently purchased 27 buses with a new exhaust system that promises to reduce particulate emissions by more than 90 percent compared to older models... The new buses will conform to the Environmental Protection Agency's emissions standards for new diesel engines, which went into effect in 2007... PSTA boasts a ridership of more than 11.7-million passengers per year...
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