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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBuses Added [i 13 } buses added to 1 Bryan Transit fleet New models are larger, more fuel-efficient By NHCHELLE CASADY michelle.casady@theeagle.com "These buses use Elected leaders like to boast of cut- ultra-low-sulfur diesel.... ting red tape, but it was a ceremonial And they're about twice as green ribbon the scissors were slic- fuel-efficient as the older ing Wednesday as U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards and other dignitaries buses." unveiled a fleet of 13 new buses at the Brazos Transit Terminal. John McBeth Edwards, D-Waco, said the new President and CEO of the buses would be an asset to the com- Brazos Transit District munity. "This will mean businesses will have workers who can dependably John McBeth, president and CEO get to work on time," he said. "What of the Brazos Transit District, said I see is families being able to get to the new buses could carry more peo- work on time, go to the grocery store ple - 24 instead of 16 - and were and then, at the end of the workday, more fuel- efficient than the older get home, where moms and dads should be." BUSES: Could help during hurricane season Continued from A9 possible by $1.3 million secured by Edwards. An addi- models, exceeding the 2010 tional $5 million has been emission standard. approved to complete the con- "These buses use ultra-low- struction of the downtown sulfur diesel," he said. "It's transit terminal and parking the cleanest-burning fuel that facility, which will be next to we could get for a bus, with the Brazos County Court- the exception of hydrogen. house. And they're about twice as Bryan and College Station fuel-efficient as the older aren't the only towns benefit- buses." ing from the new buses. The new fleet will be McBeth said they were man- equipped with a system to ufactured in Salina, Kan., announce the next stop for and the order for 13 new those who are visually buses went a long way impaired and with a scrolling toward keeping the business ticker to do the same for those operational. who are hearing-impaired. McBeth also said the addi- "It's just going to give peo- tional passengers the fleet ple a whole lot more informa- will accommodate could be tion," McBeth said. critical heading into hurri- The purchase was made cane season.