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RTA Purchases 21 Rapid Transit Vehicles

The RTA Board of Trustees approved the purchase of 21 articulated, environmentally friendly, diesel-electric powered Rapid Transit Vehicles from New Flyer of America for the Euclid Corridor Project.

"We are confident that these unique state-of-the-art vehicles will project an image that the RTA and Cleveland can be proud of," says Joseph A. Calabrese, general manager and chief executive officer of the RTA. "This Bus Rapid Transit Project will be a world class model of transportation technology and efficiency. It will allow us to significantly increase the quality of our service, while being more productive."

The extra-long, low-floor, bullet-nosed, articulated vehicles will include two doors on the driver's left side and three on the right side to accommodate the median boarding and passengers. Each will have 46 seats and space for 120 standing and sitting passengers, as well as areas for two wheelchairs and two interior bicycle racks. New Flyer will adapt the vehicles, which somewhat resemble a high-speed train, from those the company is presently manufacturing for other cities.

Incorporated in the $20.52 million cost is research, design, engineering, operation, maintenance, parts and testing of a prototype vehicle. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) will cover 80 per cent of the cost of the vehicles that promise to decrease pollution while increasing fuel efficiency. To reduce costs, the RTA is combining its order with the Lane Transit of Eugene, Oregon, which is buying five similar vehicles.

The North American headquarters of New Flyer is in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The company's U.S. assembly plants are in Minnesota and North Dakota. Through the FTA's Buy America program, New Flyer will manufacture the structure of the vehicles in Manitoba and assemble them in North Dakota. Before full manufacturing begins, a prototype will be tested at the FTA New Model Bus Testing Program, operated by Penn State University, in Altoona, PA. Such testing is required on all new model public transportation vehicles before they can be purchased with federal funds. Delivery of the vehicles will begin in early