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Committee recommends SFMTA contract to buy 30 replacement 32‑ft hybrid buses
Summary
The Budget and Finance Committee recommended Board approval of a contract with Creative Bus Sales to procure 30 32‑foot diesel‑hybrid buses (contract amount reported by BLA as $26.1 million; total project cost about $36.4 million). The committee accepted city attorney language edits and forwarded the item to the full Board.
The Budget and Finance Committee voted to recommend that the Board of Supervisors approve a contract between the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Creative Bus Sales Inc. to procure 30 32‑foot low‑floor diesel hybrid motor coaches.
Gary Chang, senior program manager for SFMTA's Transit Division, said the existing 32‑foot coaches were purchased beginning in 2007 and exceed Federal Transit Administration service expectations (10 years/350,000 miles); Chang said the vehicles average about 437,000 miles and parts and technical support are increasingly difficult because the…
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