More"COLUMBUS (Wednesday, June 9, 2010) - Aimed at increasing the use of alternative fuels to connect Ohio’s cities and decreasing the operational costs facing Ohio’s transit agencies, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is making an historic $15 million direct investment to purchase forty-one environmentally-friendly, clean-fuel buses for eleven local and regional transit authorities across the state."
Did COTA already do this? I was at the ODOT main building today and saw one of the Hybird buses. COTA gets 4 more then?
"Akron Regional Transit Authority ($2 million) - 4 hybrid electric/diesel 40 ft. buses
Central Ohio Transit Authority ($1.2 million) - 2 hybrid electric/diesel 40 ft. buses
Clermont Transportation Connection ($750,000) - 2 diesel 40 ft. buses
Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority ($2.3 million) -4 hybrid electric/diesel 40 ft. buses
Miami County Public Transit ($150,000) - 2 diesel light transit vehicles "




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