DDOT Bike Racks

[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.

[DetroitPole]

What is the status of this project?

[bc_n_dtown]

What is the status of this project?

From my understanding, the bike rack installation project is moving along, slowly, but it is moving. Not counting the 50 new NewFlyer coaches delivered last year, which already came equipped with factory installed bike-racks, the racks have been appearing on more and more of the older coaches. I don't have any figures for you, but the majority of the older NewFlyer 2003-05 year models [[around 196 total) already have the racks installed, while the older Nova RTS coaches purchased btw 2001-03 [[around 160) are just now beginning to have them installed. I don't expect to see them on the remaining older RTS fleet purchased prior to 1997 since those coaches are due to be retired upon the delivery of 46 new buses later this year.