Photo by fredcamino on flickr.
The last diesel vehicle in Metro’s enormous fleet of buses was retired this week. The New Flyer 40-foot coach was 13-years old, and logged over 383,180 miles. Bus No. 3004 is survived by one electric bus, six gasoline-electric hybrids, and 2221 natural gas buses; Metro now claims it is the first U.S. agency to switch its entire fleet to alternative fuels. [L.A. Times]
A San Francisco columnist goes on and on about parking, and seems to call out non-drivers for not “reliably” paying “bills.” Editors note: WTF? [SFGate]
Orange County transit officials show support for Anaheim’s massive ARTIC station project, but one OCTA board member is concerned that HSR will never reach Anaheim and that the project will be a boondoggle. [L.A. Now]
In the East Bay, Wheels will soon launch the Tri-Valley Rapid – the bus service will travel from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories to the Stoneridge Mall in Dublin. The improved bus service will provide relatively frequent connections to BART – every ten minutes during commute hours and every 15 minutes at other times, weekdays only from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. [Tri-Valley Rapid]
Capitol Corridor ridership increased 5 percent from December 2009 to December 2010, so please don’t let children run in the aisles and throw away your newspaper. [SacBee]
A Washington Post editorial criticized California’s true high-speed rail plan as wasteful [WashPost] – luckily, the excellent Greater Greater Washington jumped in to defend the project. [GGW]
Young bus, we hardly knew ye. Ye olde exhaust may have been carcinogenic, but you still got us from point A to point B. PCH won’t be the same without your fumes… you always showed up to the party fashionably late, 3004, and we will always remember you for it.
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