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Adam Lorentz is the director of the MTU for the city of La Crosse and I read a while back that the MTU was going to be getting some new buses house that process going. You good to buses that are coming out now all across now is that there could be some delays now that everyone is going on but we do have two full electric buses that made the news about a year or two ago and were in the process of looking at that any 235 foot pole electric buses with charging stations on Morgan upgrade our infrastructure here at the bus barn connection can handle that. And not only handled but they're getting back try to start innovating for the future electric, but the way that we can ago who want to make sure that we have the capacity now and I think that that I think the best use of money at the plan for now I'm putting that in the short term here. I will plan on extricating five new 35 foot clean, eco-buses, and that's a mixture of different some grandpa came through the state, and also we received one bus and that should be the VW mitigation on that was a settlement that VW had a settlement that actually think that the country and around the state would allocate a certain amount of money we are able to get a bucket that felt deathly needed to be at Fort about this last year but we still have about 15 buses that did replace the useful life and the five that are coming next year can come not good enough. So with the new electric buses. How is that going to help with the fuel costs in the overall budget of the city you know there's still a lot to learn about electric buses were falling very closely with other agencies that actually it will minimize any in the state of Wisconsin Madison probably Madison walked into the bigger ones that are starting the process on the next block. If you have this on the street right now a lot of the things you know the names Coccinellidae Sophos right now were looking at them, reducing the cost per bottle just by having doubt not having that that gas and oil pump through their it's really time will tell. A lot of people feel down, but were really looking at him, the money aspect itself so that you can gauge the environment you're reducing our carbon footprint. So it's kind of a twofold situation of the benefit electric buses and tell me about the technology on some of the newer buses that is obviously anything new is better administrator for the drivers and better for the riders. Right now it is implemented. We have our fleshly and pulmonary ABL system and the ethos of the book of the GPS now and was really convenient for that is that any user can install a free app on their phone and they can see where the buses are in real time and what that does you know we do a little Wisconsin so you know when it's the portable low-end to get snow on the ground. It's nice to know where your buses in real time with the general condition of the table the, you know, standing there in the box where stand in home until the bucket there also. Just about plaintiff from his new dairy and not sure what talk to get on a lot of things that give us a call here and read the old-fashioned map, but the biblical proponent that to look this your buses around and just tap on that stop in for the next buses in their it's really revolutionize that's really set at the head of getting new riders on the box that's more like big city stuff really if you think about it. Yeah, absolutely a you know where were trying to change the culture of transit in the city La Crosse obviously never arrived in the depend on it. Not right as an Indian unit for many years but now we want to break the door and get a lot of those first-time writers and often in order to do that we have to get some of the technologies and some luxuries. No new bus luxury not able to write a new box so all those pieces on panic that is up to have the new ridership and tell me about some of the projects that the MTU is coming up well on this for A product that talked about the infrastructure of spinal route that electric grid not only to how the two buses but also the plan for the future. I'm just for plaintiff and money savings were in a plan for now. If you want to keep digging up the ground and put a new conduit new stations and every time you want to get electric buses, but for the community projects. We had a couple really great ones lined up this year. And of course they got postponed for next year but really trying to branch out and and and and get our faith out there and one only had a really cool project. The school district with your teachers, where family picnic in the community-based Damon that we had students from every one of the Wilson artwork and I plan to wrap a 35 foot box and have them going billboard of the kids our growth of the city and it's just that I really care product showcase the talent that we have here in La Crosse but also to have some mom find transportation system that I can't understand Latino politicians taking call about but feel that the large-scale project for really the last 12 to 18 months and really put a lot of emphasis on local community events. Local media picnics. We do a lot of outreach with him a lot of daycare and school. Korea: a parent is somewhat like a field trip on property but to get rid of the and honk the horn and just learn more about writing and then I will actually do a lot without working through different businesses in the area and will take a bath into a private poster with the their employees and their business just to get people to feel the box and understand about writing about kind of want to think environment where they have somebody looking at that object can do it together and just to show him that the foxes are really viable and efficient, and safe optical