Sept 8, 2014
The council approved buying four new fixed-route buses last week for just less than $400,000 each. They’ll use the same fuel as the rest of the fleet.
The buses can carry twice as many passengers as the 1997 models they’re replacing. They’ll be used on some of the city’s busiest routes where buses are crowded at peak hours, transportation planner Sam Trebilcock said.
The new buses are 35 feet, six feet longer than the old models, and with just five more seats but much more standing room, they can carry 87 people instead of 42.
It will be a year until they’re ready for service.
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Per the website, SAM operates 12 fixed routes and 4 school tripper routes
http://www.siouxfalls.org/sam/fixed-routes.aspx