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The city vision 2020 podcasts this month featuring Adam Lorentz from the MTU Adam thanks for joining us again a lot of things happening with the MTU this year. I think with any department a lot of things happening. There's been some big impact to our services and then how we operate, but there's also some really good things happening. Well, let's talk about was positive with the MTU. We are actually awarded to additional buttons those buses came as part of the round two of the VW settlement which was a settlement that VW settled with the government for falsifying emission records and we were awarded to hybrid buses. The purpose of the VW mitigation was to take some old boxes that produce a lot of that carbon footprint. Heavy levels of fumes out the bus replace more efficient buses were really thankful that we were one of the year that were awarded to buses and after put our fleet up to 10 new buses by the end of next year. So 10 new buses coming in 2021 Adam what is that mean for the average writer in the city of La Crosse wanted just to be an easy riding on somebody's bus that we had were mundane back from 2001, 2002 and to get those off the road obviously anything new is better. Things like needed a ride can always send this now that the fumes that come from the box you know what the lowly mission titles uniting only minutes about anything with Erica on 1015 20 years ago where you know the joke was that there is a cloud of smoke coming out of the back of the buses, so it's really just user-friendliness of the buses you know some of our new buses are equipped with charging stations for USB charging all the buses now are equipped with an anti-out monitoring system. So the riders can see where the buses are in real time so that they know exactly if the buses can be there in one minute to answer the next buses need and 21 of the things I noticed in the last few years as more and more people are using the bike racks in the front of the buses are the new buses going to be equipped with those, absolutely. Yeah, you know we work with a lot of the local bike advocate groups around the Supercross and they always call us are. That last mile they call it where you know the bike rider you want the life of these great trails throughout the La Crosse but they can get from point a to point B to utilize them variable to use the MTU to get the last mile that the nation absolutely will be bike rack and all the people at diminished abilities to get on and off the buses there any help for that all the buses are ADA equipped so buses can lower light to the curb right to the ground and all the buses are equipped with the motorized ramp. So anybody has something mobility device. We can get them in their we also have securement stations and answer new buses are equipped with more efficient and safer securement stations are people that have such a motorized scooter or wheelchair ramp this your kid against the front of the box so I don't have to worry just not getting on the bus to one third line on the box. They can feel safe and now with their time. The nation think the speaking of safety and a lot of protocols in 2020. That is that in common and I see the bus drivers using them all the time with the masks and stuff do the riders have to wear masks as well when they're on the buses yeah yeah so as to before the government order. We were putting in. Where everybody had to wear a mask on the box and obviously are bus operators are required to the that's really just the tip of the iceberg of what was done here from faculty protocol we spoke last time. The kind of getting started with some of the items but you know me have a fog or any Mr. machine that each sanitize the buses every single day. We have new chemicals that are proven to kill not only the culprit but also the common fluid other types of viruses that our cleaning staff relentlessly goes over the buses. We have used utilize the back door as much as we can to try to stop that close proximity with the bus operators the passengers and talk about positive the vessel on the positives is that we were actually awarded there's money directly to us. The federal government, which allowed us now spent care for the rest the year. So what that does is two things. One is obviously not the interaction with the bus operators that keep that up for something also was handling of cash bears and passes that you don't want to do right now but really certainly it's allowing people that are maybe have been impacted by COBIT feel financially that they know that they don't have to worry about the bus pass at the bus there for that day and month and on all the midst of all the negativity I think that's one positive that's really set out that the MTU for their people in the now obviously there's a cost to a lot of the stuff. How to cite in the getting paid for was funded federally and through the state, then also there's some local share. So on the city La Crosse is a portion that's running contact communities of the Crescent Campbell and I'll have to double that goes into it, but that, but the main course of action are capital purchases such as the buses are equipped for the buses, really. The majority of our purchases are coming gently from federal or state ranked very little amount that is actually charged by PDW and the grant fees tend to buses all or part of a grant and out of our ABL system was part of it to what's the name of the city La Crosse MTU okay so I just researched city of La Crosse and to you one last question. I have Adam's work we find out about what's happening right now, so we really try to make a good effort to keep our website up-to-date kind of right to the city La Crosse not working right on the front page of the transit was also really had an increase on enter Facebook on so we do daily updates there in daily posting to find out that is across the MTU Facebook and then also our app so I talked about a mobile app which is free download for Apple or play or through iTunes and we do updated information on there as well. Really trying to make sure that people have that information. Right then and there is a post that you know back in a row had a newspaper posting now. People That the content and then lastly people that don't have access to those items that can give us a call here rally staff year can visit the fourth, Monday through Friday minutes, occasionally on Saturday morning so that you want to call it that 608-7973 50 will be something in the morning to get more