If you was a city board member or as a citizen which is more important, replacing costly aging fleet of buses or drone that supposedly for 911 uses. If you support both or one, how should it be funded?
About half of Greensboro buses are aging with over 500,000 miles with costly repairs.
this example was given to News 2
Take bus 758 for example. This year alone GTA's sunk in almost 27 grand in repairs. On just this one bus.
And across the entire fleet maintenance costs have rolled up from $680,000 in all of 2011 to $849,000 in the first half of 2015 alone.
GTA says their buses are so rundown some days not enough are working to get to all the stops on schedule.
The good news is most of price of a bus is federally funded.
Once our buses hit 500,000 miles - the feds will help the city replace them.
The feds cover 85 percent of the cost of each new bus. Leaving GTA to come up with the rest--- about $45,000.
GTA has 19 buses that need to be replaced. That's almost $900,000 GTA has to find.
http://www.wfmynews2.com/story/news/...-gta/30485627/
Drone estimated fleet of 12 costs $1,200,000 a year
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