Tim Nelson(From Tim Nelson)
If your Orange County Transportation Authority bus is stuck in morning rush hour traffic on eastbound Interstate 94 in St. Paul, chances are you’re not going to be at your desk in Anaheim any time before lunch.
This one was making its way towards Minneapolis this morning, although the destination sign on the front was just showing “###################.”
I emailed the photo to OCTA spokesman Joel Zlotnik and he confirmed that it was a New Flyer, compressed natural gas vehicle. Orange County is getting 299 of them, which will be about half the fleet.
The New Flyer buses are manufactured, in part, in Crookston, Minn., so this one is apparently on its way, indirectly anyway, from northern Minnesota to California.
I couldn’t help but wonder how it’ll get there, since natural gas filling stations seem few and far between. I’m just glad I’m not behind the wheel, looking for one.
