BUSES PURCHASE PROSPECTS * USA - Buses are belching smog, but UTA is working on it
The agency will replace 108 vehicles with cleaner ones soon
Salt Lake City,UT,USA -The Salt Lake Tribune, by Brandon Loomis -18 April 2009: -- The bad news is that hundreds of the Utah Transit Authority's buses are aging polluters that spew more gunk than the cars they take off the road... The good news is that they just keep aging, and soon they'll retire... A legislative audit last year considered UTA's air-quality effects negligible. The buses belch more nitrogen oxide than the cars they replace, and that more than offsets the benefits of electric light-rail trains. That has not changed this year, UTA officials acknowledge, but it will within two to three years as the agency buys new, cleaner buses... If bus replacement goes as scheduled, the fleet as a whole should outperform the displaced cars as soon as 2011 or 2012, UTA Chief Operating Officer Jerry Benson said... (Photo by Rick Egan / The Salt Lake Tribune - New UTA buses on the lot getting ready for serviceon Friday. UTA is replacing old, buses with new, cleaner ones)Labels: buses purchase prospects
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