BUSES PURCHASE * USA - Metro to add 19 buses to fleet
Stimulus dollars are working for Metro RTA, adding 19 new buses to its fleet
Akron,OH,USA -The Akron Beacon Journal, by Marilyn Miller -Jul 02, 2009: -- The $8.3 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will be used to add the buses and to update its main facility on Kenmore Boulevard... The new buses will be in service by the end of next week. Drivers are being trained this week on the newest long-distance bus...
Dianne Holland sits in the driver's seat of one of the new Motor Coach Industries buses purchased for the Cleveland North Coast run. Stimulus money was used to purchase new buses and other equipment... (Photos by Paul Tople/Akron Beacon Journal)* Feds Sending $5 Million for New Buses in Maine
Portland,ORE,USA -The Exception -June 26, 2009: -- The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration has allocated $5,156,622 in stimulus dollars to the Maine Department of Transportation to purchase 13 new 35 foot replacement buses for the City of Bangor, the Lewiston Auburn Transportation Committee, the Greater Portland Transit District, and the Southern Portland Bus Service, according to an announcement from Maine's Congressman Mike Michaud...* MOVTA purchases 8 new buses
Parkersburg,W.VA,USA -News and Sentinel, by NATALEE SEELY -June 27, 2009: -- The Mid-Ohio Valley Transit Authority purchased eight new buses for the Easy Rider bus system with the help of stimulus funds from Federal Transit Administration assistance programs... More than $4 million of federal stimulus money was distributed among four transit agencies in West Virginia... President of the Transit Authority Board, Bill McClure, said MOVTA received about $1 million of the stimulus money... (Image from easyriderbus: navbar)* Gardena receives federal funds for hybrid buses
Gardena,CAL,USA -The Daily Breeze -26 June 2009: -- Gardena is one of 12 California cities selected to receive federal transportation funds under the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, officials announced Friday... The city will get nearly $3.6 million to purchase six replacement buses that have hybrid gasoline-electric engines for its municipal bus line... Long Beach, Oakland and Lodi were among other recipients of the grant... Cynthia Bryant, director of the California Recovery Task Force, said Friday that the U.S. Department of Transportation allocated more than $70 million in additional Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for improvements to the state's transportation systems...
* City buying 20 hybrid buses. $19.3M in stimulus funds will be used
Honolulu,HAW,USA -The Honolulu Advertiser, by Sean Hao -29 June 2009: -- The city of Honolulu is using $19.3 million in federal stimulus money to buy 20 new articulated hybrid buses... The purchase, which will expand the city's hybrid fleet to 70 buses, allows the city to quickly deploy the stimulus money on a "green" project. However, that additional investment in hybrid buses comes despite the findings of a recent report by O'ahu Transit Services Inc. — operator of TheBus — that buying more modern diesel buses makes better financial and environmental sense than buying fewer more expensive hybrid buses... The 60-foot hybrid electric buses, which cost nearly $1 million each, are being purchased under an option from an earlier hybrid bus order with Canadian bus maker New Flyer...Labels: buses purchase
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