New Flyer Industries Canada ULC (New Flyer) has announced the city of Edmonton, the owner and operator of Edmonton Transit Service (ETS), has awarded the company a contract for 35, 60-foot Xcelsior® clean-diesel heavy-duty transit buses.
The order replaces end-of-life buses while also allowing ETS to expand passenger capacity on select routes. New Flyer has delivered 1,130 buses to ETS since 1992, and says it has successfully deployed clean diesel buses in 35, 40 and 60-foot lengths to other cities across Canada including Vancouver, Calgary and the city of Edmonton.
"As North America's leader in fully-accessible, high-capacity transit, New Flyer is pleased to continue supporting ETS as it expands transit across the community with safe, reliable and effective public transportation," said Chris Stoddart, president, New Flyer. "Our high-capacity Xcelsior buses provide more efficient transit solutions while helping to transform the transit experience for Edmonton's growing community."
New Flyer's clean diesel buses feature engines that use a four-step process to filter harmful emissions from the exhaust and use engine technology that results in highly efficient, virtually smoke-free engines, which can achieve low emissions and help reduce particulate emissions by 90 percent and NOx emissions by 95 percent.
