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MTD Takes Some Heat
| The Metropolitan Transit District took a lot of heat at Thursday’s meeting of the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments. The criticism centered on the MTD’s decision to purchase 11 diesel buses and 12 electric busses instead of the 25 electric buses it earlier had promised. The Federal Transporation Agency is still reviewing the matter, but in the meantime, the MTD board voted to scrap the proposals and start all over because the MTD had expected the buses to cost about $450,000 each, but the only bidder was $580,000 per bus. |