DDOT Bike Racks

[Bearinabox]

Why are they buying new coaches? I'm not trying to pick on Detroit and pick at it, but one would have thought they might be able to make due with older stock, at least temporarily.

In any event, it's good that there will be more bike racks on DDOT buses.

Capital improvements such as new buses come out of dedicated pots of federal money explicitly set aside for that purpose. If DDOT chose to forgo buying new buses, they'd leave that money on the table, and would have to use extremely scarce operations dollars [[which are raised locally from a combination of farebox revenue and the CoD general fund) to keep patching up the old ones. There's no logical reason for them to try to "make do with older stock."

[fryar]

Capital improvements such as new buses come out of dedicated pots of federal money explicitly set aside for that purpose. If DDOT chose to forgo buying new buses, they'd leave that money on the table, and would have to use extremely scarce operations dollars [[which are raised locally from a combination of farebox revenue and the CoD general fund) to keep patching up the old ones. There's no logical reason for them to try to "make do with older stock."

Ah. Didn't realize that was so. Didn't realize that was so. Carry on, city fathers and mothers.