[RP TownTalk] [TownTalk] traffic concerns

[Maureen E. Farrington]

I got my driver's license about a week before I graduated from college.  I
rode the bus a lot.

The 83 (runs along Rte 1 from the Rhode Island Ave Metro to Cherry Hill
Road) is the bus that I most often see as a natural gas model, so they are
around the county.

I like that the buses on Queensbury slow traffic down.  There's no reason
to go faster than 25-30 mph on my street.

-Maureen

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, ickyfoot wrote:

> "Poking around on wmata.com, I saw a claim that PG county is getting
> more than our share of the hybrids, because we had more than our share
> of the very oldest model of diesels.  If you saw three, then maybe
> that really is the case."
> 
> Wow.
> 
> I'll believe that they are actually delivering more to our county when I 
> start to see more. The F4 route is in DESPERATE need of upgrading, yet 
> over the period of time from late October through mid April I rode on 
> one hybrid bus and only one or two natural gas ones (which have been out 
> for over a year now). I hope the triple sighting this weekend bodes well 
> for the immediate future. Many of the buses currently running the route 
> are shaking piles of metal strapped together with duct tape and hangers 
> (or may as well be).
> 
> And I can tell you from direct experience (i.e. riding on a bike 
> directly behind buses) that the hybrids and especially the natural gas 
> buses are just so much cleaner. You can't even smell them, really. They 
> are still fairly loud compared with a car, but they are much more 
> tolerable than the regular diesel buses.
> 
> -E
> 
> 
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