BUSES PURCHASE PROSPECTS * USA - Stimulus money to buy buses for northeast Minnesota
St. Paul,MINN,USA -The Minnesota Public Radio, by Elizabeth Baier -July 10, 2009: -- Federal stimulus funds will soon help replace more than four dozen transit buses in northeast Minnesota, DFL Rep. Jim Oberstar announced this week... The $7.4 million grant, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will be used to replace a total of 51 buses that serve rural Minnesota communities, Oberstar said...
* U.S. to buy 20 hybrid buses for RIPTA
Providence,Rhode Island,USA -The Providence Business News -July 10, 2009: -- The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) will receive $24.2 million in federal stimulus money to buy hybrid buses and convert trolleys to hybrid propulsion, the state’s congressional delegation announced yesterday... The $24.2 million will pay for the purchase of 20 new, 40-foot hybrid buses; the conversion of 10 trolleys from diesel power to hybrid diesel-electric propulsion; and capital maintenance and transit upgrades in different parts of the state, lawmakers said...
* Transit District gets funding for new buses - U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, announced the grant
Great Falls,MON,USA -The Great Falls Tribune -July 10, 2009: -- Some $1.2 million in federal Recovery Act dollars will go to the Great Falls Transit District to buy four 29-foot low-floor buses and two vans... In April, bus district General Manager, Jim Helgeson, said he expected to receive the grant. During the spring, Great Falls received two new buses that came from earmarked congressional dollars... Once the four buses arrive in 2010, Helgeson said the district will need another six new buses to have a strong fleet...
* Fort Worth Transportation Authority awarded $20 million in stimulus money
Fort Worth,TX,USA -The Star-Telegram, by GORDON DICKSON -10 July 2009: -- Articulated buses designed to give riders an experience that resembles train service will be used on East Lancaster Avenue beginning next year, after $20 million in federal stimulus funding was awarded Thursday to the Fort Worth Transportation Authority... Most of Fort Worth’s $20 million will be used to buy eight articulated buses to run along Route 2, the busiest corridor in the system, T spokeswoman, Joan Hunter, said. The buses will be ordered as soon as possible and put into service by fall 2010, she said...
* Collier Transit to buy new hybrid buses using federal stimulus money
Naples,FL,USA -The Naples News, by TRACY X. MIGUEL -July 11, 2009: -- After a positive experience testing a state-of-the-art hybrid bus, Collier County is moving forward with the purchase of “green buses”... The county plans to buy two, 35-foot hybrid full-size buses for its fixed-route bus service using stimulus money from the federal government. The cost of a hybrid bus is close to $600,000 compared to about $385,000 for a standard diesel bus, officials said...
* Azusa School district receives grants to retrofit buses
San Gabriel Valley,CAL,USA -The SGV Tribune -11 July 2009: -- Azusa Unified School District is among 13 Southern California districts to receive a total of almost $43 million in grants from the Southland's air quality agency to replace aging diesel-powered school buses with alternative-fuel vehicles, the agency announced Friday... The AQMD also awarded districts more than $3 million to help retrofit 176 newer diesel buses with particulate traps to reduce emissions... AQMD officials said the grants will help districts replace a total of 304 diesel buses built prior to 1987 with buses powered by compressed natural gas or propane...
* NFTA granted funds for 7 hybrid buses
Buffalo,NY,USA -The Business First of Buffalo -July 14, 2009: -- The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority will be adding to its fleet of hybrid buses through a federal appropriation... A grant of $2.52 million has been awarded to the NFTA from the Department of Transportation. The funding, delivered through the agency’s clean fuels grant program, will allow for the purchase of seven hybrid-electric buses that will replace the same number of diesel buses... In June, the DOT authorized a separate $294,000 grant to the NFTA for a single hybrid bus...
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