New bus smell
Oct. 13th, 2005 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienMy prizewinning local bus company recently acquired a clutch of new buses -- low-floored biodiesel buses, no less. They threw a party at the zoo last week to celebrate, apparently.
This evening I got to ride one of them on my way home, still so new it hadn't yet lost the new bus smell, which is similar to but not quite the same as new car smell. Unlike the older buses, which need a lift to get wheelchairs up to the passenger level three feet off the ground, these have low floors and a wheelchair ramp at each door -- and two steep steps in the middle of the aisle, separating the plush front seats from the plain back ones. I was a bit earlier than usual, and got plenty of time to admire the interior as it ground through three miles of rush hour traffic.
This evening I got to ride one of them on my way home, still so new it hadn't yet lost the new bus smell, which is similar to but not quite the same as new car smell. Unlike the older buses, which need a lift to get wheelchairs up to the passenger level three feet off the ground, these have low floors and a wheelchair ramp at each door -- and two steep steps in the middle of the aisle, separating the plush front seats from the plain back ones. I was a bit earlier than usual, and got plenty of time to admire the interior as it ground through three miles of rush hour traffic.