In response to Jennifer Casey’s “Polluting buses” (Feb. 19, News), I echo concerns about emissions released by Metro Transit buses ignoring its anti-idling policy. Metro buses are to be shut off after three minutes of idling, which accounts for the time it takes to reinflate air brakes. While the article quotes DriveWiser co-ordinator Gina Patterson saying air brakes on buses take up to three minutes to inflate, HRM’s own website says it’s only “about one minute.” Idling buses pollute our air and waste our tax dollars. Metro Transit: Prove your commitment to anti-idling is more than hot air.
—Milena McWatt, Halifax
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Metro Transit’s polluting buses
Drivers routinely ignore Metro Transit’s no-idling policy, increasing greenhouse gas emissions by millions of tonnes.
This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2009.
Just to note – it was Lori Patterson and not Gina Patterson who commented on the air brake inflation time.
Gina Patterson