Comments on: Leading Off (10/14/09)

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:51:42 +0000

Technically, Jim Foster is the County Judge, not a Commissioner.

By: Publicnewssense

Publicnewssense — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:31:46 +0000

Those Dallas County Constables are the urban equivalent of a small-town speed trap.

By: MIssing Dots

MIssing Dots — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:43:03 +0000

Dart buses will be a rootin-tootin

By: Dallasite

Dallasite — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:31:25 +0000

Sounds dangerous. I think they should go with horse & buggies.

By: DMBurrows

DMBurrows — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:17:00 +0000

Oh.. way to go Boone! And here I had almost sold DART on my Flux Capacitor model.

By: JohnG

JohnG — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:46:51 +0000

Shifting to natural gas as a transportation fuel is a good long term bet for national energy policy, considering that we appear to be the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. The latest Diesels, if equipped with expensive urea injection and particulate catalyts, can be effectively as clean burning as gasoline engines, but natural gas burns cleaner still. Fleets are the easiest thing to convert to a new, not yet available everywhere fuel, as they generally refuel at a central location. I’m extremely pleased that DART will be ordering natural gas busses.

By: Batface

Batface — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:25:08 +0000

Tim, are you really criticizing someone for betting ridiculous amounts of money on a favorable future outcome, no matter how remote the odds of success? Because I’ve seen your hands, and they’re not usually so big.

By: JS

JS — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:20:20 +0000

C’mon Tim, you know that governmental entities love to bet your money like this. If they lose, they can just take more of your money to make up for it. It’s like hitting the restart button on a videogame!

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:15:34 +0000

In the infobox at the bottom of the story, the average life of the bus is estimated to be 12 years, but they’re projecting saving all this money over 20 years.

Can someone please explain?