LTD's EM-X 63 foot long bus with room for about a hundred people [with people standing] is scheduled to go into service within the next couple weeks. LTD drivers for weeks have been training on the new buses in preparation for the rollout.
"Cause it's a sexy bus. it's just you know a it's a wonderful bus," said said 8 Year LTD bus driver Carl Faddis
It's a 63 foot long bus with room for about 100 people. but driving it isn't that easy.
"Is the fact that there's so much information to integrate into doing this thing. into handling the route. handling each of the stations," Faddis..
Each station a little different.
"This one is pretty feisty," said Faddis as he pulled up to a station on Franklin Boulevard in Glenwood.
The main purpose/reason for the bus is that we can make travel faster between Eugene and Springfield," said Angie Sifuentez, Marketing Representative for LTD.
The four $900,000 buses are scheduled to be fully operational on January 14, 2007. To entice riders, ridership will be free.
the system so far cost approximately $29 million for the 14 mile route between Eugene and Springfield. Hopefully, it delivers what it promises unlike that crazy [and dangerous] roundabout at Hayden Bridge and Pioneer Parkway in Springfield which is a disaster waiting to happen.
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My regular driver will be taking over one of the EMX routes. He says it will be free for the first year. Great way to make back all the millions they spent creating it!
So far the trial runs have not been 'text book'.
For the record, those who voted for the roundabout in Springfield were Councilor's Tammy Fitch, Anne Ballew and Dave Ralston. Those opposed were John Woodrow and Christine Lundberg. Then Ward 6 Councilor Tim Malloy worked for Peace Health and recused himself from voting. This took Mayor Leiken out of breaking a tie and if you followed the media at will know that he was strongly opposed to the roundabout.
I wonder what they are going to do if that roundabout becomes classified as a dangerous intersection.
I still think it is stupid to try and shove four-lanes of traffic in to one or two lanes and think that it would be more efficient than a traffic light.
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