New hybrid buses * USA - To hit road late this year
Save $7 million annuallyChicago,Ill,USA -CTA Tattler -11 March 2008: -- The CTA is exercising an option it bought in December to lease 150 60-foot articulated hybrid buses to replace and update its aging fleet... The board in December authorized reassignment of a contract option belonging to the Seattle transit system to get the buses from New Flyer Industries. That move locked in savings of $60,000 per bus. The CTA also stands to save $7 million a year in maintenance, parts and labor costs over the current buses... The new buses will get 4.43 miles to the gallon -- a 77% improvement over the 2.5 mpg that the 40-foot 1991 buses get...
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