Today a CNN news babe was walking around New Orleans and came across two RTA buses in which several families were living, they had taken them from the RTA lot and were sleeping in them with the air conditioning on.
It was so cold at night they had to use blankets.
do you remember which show it was on or about what time, so i can look it up and see if i can find some kind of video online?
i cannot express what i'm feeling right now, in appropriate terms, concerning the families living in the buses...but they figured out the master dial :)
i was thinking about it earlier, and if i was 50, and had been driving my bus for 20 or so years, what else would i be comfortable doing? the bus operators and bus mechanics, from the RTA and other local transit providers, are out of jobs for the time being, there are no people to carry to jobs, to schools, to stores, to anywhere.
off hand, just because i'm interested in knowing, do you know how long a bus can idle on a full or mostly full tank? orion high floors 35' and 40' have a 125 and 150 gallon capacity, low floors have 125 gallon (hybrids have 100 gallon tanks). i'm using orion as a reference b/c i've seen orion pics from down there. i can't get into NTD right now to see if there is a more detailed listing (i get an error message).
i'm figuring if they were parked saturday or early sunday, the tank would be full or mostly full, most places service the vehicles at the end of the day, to get them ready for the next day's service.