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Introducing: Bio-Bus
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New Orleans Magazine
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August 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright New Orleans Publishing Group Inc. Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The first in a new wave of transit buses are hitting city streets this month and a new look isn't the only change. All the new buses are equipped to run on bio-diesel fuel, a cleaner-burning diesel fuel made from natural, renewable sources such as vegetable oils.
"It's an environmental decision," says New Orleans Regional Transit Authority spokeswoman Rosalind Blanco Cook. "We're building everything back after Katrlna, so we might as well build It back better than before."
The RTA received Its first new bio-diesel bus in May and expects to have 39 operating along city bus routes this month.
Blanco Cook says eventually the buses will be equipped to accept card-based fare payments In addition ...
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