Features include a custom-designed interior, as well as a removable mini-galley, a Blaupunkt entertainment system with 15-inch video monitors, access to outlets to recharge personal electronics, and individual air-flow controls and reading lights.
Adds link to its Website, as well as BusRates.com, for donations through the American Red Cross.
The new commuter coaches, which feature seating for 49 passengers, are in service on the island's longer routes between Hilo and Kona; and Waikoloa and Ka'u.
Two agencies add first Orion VIIs to their fleets. Deliveries are set for late summer and fall of 2010.
Award given annually to a city that uses transport innovations to increase mobility for all residents, while reducing transportation greenhouse and air pollution emissions and increasing cyclist and pedestrian safety and access.
General Manager John Catoe is leaving the agency after three years. His last day will be April 2.
Two statewide coalitions warn of polluted soil under rail bed.
The original contract with the city of Boston was signed in 2003 for five years, with three-year and two-year extension options.