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28.2.11

BUSES PURCHASE * USA - Texas Putting Bucks Behind Buses

* Texas - Rapid Doesn’t Always Mean Rail

Dallas,TX,USA -The Bond Buyer, by Richard Williamson -February 22, 2011: -- As Texas urban transit authorities continue to expand light-rail lines to ease congestion, they are also investing heavily in their workhorse buses, combining local and federal funds to develop cleaner, more efficient systems...   Dallas Area Rapid Transit is planning to spend $250 million to buy or lease an entire fleet of 452 buses powered by compressed natural gas. The plan could require bond issuance, but DART board has not decided on the financing details...  In San Antonio, the VIA Metropolitan Transit system is converting an historic train station into the Westside Multimodal Transit Center, which would serve a bus rapid transit, or BRT, corridor and possibly support light rail in the future...  In El Paso, the Mesa Corridor BRT project is in line to receive $13.54 million of federal funding under the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts program. Under a plan the El Paso City Council approved last year, the $136 million bus rapid-transit system would receive $55 million from the city and the rest in federal and state money...  In Austin, one of the state’s most congested cities, the Capital Metro Transit Authority is building a $47.6 million BRT system and plans to get $38.1 million of federal funding under President Obama’s recommended budget... The Texas projects are among 10 start-ups across the country recommended for a combined $569.3 million of federal grants. Others include rail and BRT projects in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Oregon, Utah and Washington state... An additional 11 projects that were recommended for funding in previous years, but have not received federal commitments, are being recommended for $1.4 billion in this year’s budget... (Photo by David Kroomba/Ride for Climate: A shot of Bogota's (Colombia) BRT nuses system)


* Pensilvania - Lancaster's Red Rose Transit Authority wants to add hybrid buses to its fleet.

Lancaster,PA,USA -Lancaster On Line, by BERNARD HARRIS -21 Feb 2011: -- The public transit agency hopes to purchase two buses, at a cost of $544,816 each...  The buses are expected to save the RRTA between 20 and 30 percent of the fuel used by a comparable diesel bus. That translates into $7,000 to $10,000 per year, depending on the cost of fuel, said David Kilmer, RRTA executive director...  The RRTA board on Wednesday approved a purchase contract with Gillig Corp. of Hayward, Calif., on behalf of RRTA and 21 other, mostly small, transit agencies statewide...   The cooperative purchase agreement will run for five years and entail as many as 200 buses, for a total value of nearly $109 million...


* New York - County Legislature To Consider Federal Grant For CARTS Buses

Mayville,Jamestown,NY,USA -The Post Journal, by Nicholas L. Dean -February 23, 2011: -- Are nine new CARTS buses necessary and essential? ... John Runkle doesn't think so. At least, not this year...  The Stockton Republican and former majority leader voted against the proposal in last week's Audit and Control Committee meeting. Having passed both that committee and another though, the proposal will go before the full legislature for vote tonight...  As explained by George Spanos, Department of Public Facilities director, the county is eligible every year to apply for federal grant funding for CARTS purchases. In addition to nine new buses, Spanos said the department is also asking for software which would improve the operations of CARTS...  The county did get 13 new buses last year, Spanos answered, but the fleet is 30 in total - with all buses racking up miles from their travels around the county. The department replaces buses every year, but does not replace any buses that have less than 150,000 miles, Spanos explained. On average, the buses get about 30,000 miles each year...

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