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Edmonton transforms transit experience and increases efficiency with high-capacity buses from New Flyer
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nEdmonton transforms transit experience and increases efficiency with high-capacity buses from New Flyer\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nWINNIPEG, Dec. 18, 2019\n\n\n\nWINNIPEG, Dec. 18, 2019 /CNW/ - (TSX: NFI) New Flyer Industries Canada ULC (\"New Flyer\"), a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc. (\"NFI\"), one of the world's leading independent global bus manufacturers, today announced that the City of Edmonton, the owner and operator of Edmonton Transit Service (\"ETS\"), has awarded New Flyer a contract for 35 sixty-foot Xcelsior® clean-diesel heavy-duty transit buses (70 equivalent units or \"EUs\").\n\n \n \n\n \nThe 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 successfully deployed clean diesel buses in thirty-five, forty, and sixty-foot lengths to other cities across Canada including Vancouver, Calgary, and the City of Edmonton.\n\"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.\"\nNew Flyer's clean diesel buses feature engines that use a four-step process to filter harmful emissions from the exhaust and use leading engine technology that results in highly efficient, virtually smoke-free engines, which can achieve low emissions and help reduce particulate emissions by 90% and NOx emissions by 95%.\nETS is a fully integrated public transit system providing bus and light rail service and delivering over 80 million rides each year. ETS is on the cusp of major modernization and will be rolling out an entirely new bus network in 2020 with more direct, more frequent, and more convenient service to grow transit ridership in Edmonton.\nNew Fly...