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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

MTA "Green"

I remember during the Earth Day '07 MTA-NYCT Information Drive, where they drive home the point that they've always been Green. The only thing ''Green'' about them, were the color of NYCTA Buses, as those things did nothing but belch exhaust fumes. Their retort was they've been green since 1960:

The only time that, until the past few years that was ''Green'' about them, was when they ran streetcars on Brooklyn routes, until 1956 & then, trolley buses until 1960, @ least as surface transit. For a long time, there has been the Subway and Elevated lines;

Now, thanks to hybrid electric buses & low-sulphur deisel buses, at least they can lay claim to being ''Green'', unlike earlier years. The smoke-belchers are gone;

The former franchise bus lines are under MTA Control, running a mix of Natural Gas vehicles, though they are being phased out, in favor of the hybrids;

Ahhh, Progress;

They ought to take more of a cue from NJ Transit in Newark & run some light rail. Boston does it so well with the MBTA;

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