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  • Woman bites driver over non-hybrid bus

    01/25/2009 9:01:34 AM PST · by PJ-Comix · 61 replies · 1,988+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | January 23, 2009 | SERGEY KADINSKY AND CARRIE MELAGO
    Going green was a cause she could really sink her teeth into.The frantic passenger who bit a veteran driver's arm was upset that his bus wasn't a hybrid, he said Thursday. "She came on the bus, and she said she waited more than an hour for a hybrid," said MTA driver Peter Williams, 42. "I said, 'I'm not in control of what bus is assigned to me.'" Williams, a dad of two who is in the Navy Reserves, plans to take a little time off after Wednesday's bizarre attack on an uptown M104 bus. The woman, Shelia Bolar, 49, started...
  • RFTA pays premium for hybrid buses ( PC and wasting taxpayer's money )

    10/10/2006 7:33:45 AM PDT · by george76 · 364+ views
    aspen daily news ^ | 10/09/2006 | Curtis Wackerle
    The three new buses are identical to the four hybrids -- purchased in 2004 for $594,000 -- that hit the streets last winter, although the price jumped 12 percent to $653,000. Roaring Fork Transportation Authority officials blame the cost increase on the rise in prices for raw materials such as steel, plastic and rubber. A standard diesel-engine bus runs in the neighborhood of $375,000. Rick Brandenburg, New Flyer's western U.S. sales manager, said New Flyer now sells a hybrid bus, comparable in look and design to RFTA's current hybrid buses, for about $480,000. The new buses, however, were not available...