The Rapid to use $5M grant to add 16 clean-diesel buses for metro Grand Rapids routes

A younger, cleaner-running transit fleet will soon populate Grand Rapids bus routes thanks to a $5 million federal grant enabling the purchase of 16 new vehicles.

According to excerpts from the story:

The Interurban Transit Partnership recently received a $5 million federal grant, and the public transit agency will use the money to purchase 16 buses for The Rapid. ITP CEO Peter Varga said the 40-foot, low-floor, clean-diesel buses have been ordered and have just gone through the production cycle at Gillig Corp. of Hayward, Calif.  Gillig is the second-largest maker of transit buses in North America. Each bus costs about $340,000. “The really good news about this is we were able to replace our fleet, despite the fact that we actually grew our fleet over time,” he said.

Read the complete story here.