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Posted by kcram3500 on Thu May 14 15:41:29 2015, in response to Re: We Now Have Definitive Proof SBS is a Success, posted by terRAPIN station on Thu May 14 12:50:28 2015. are not EDUCATED/INFORMED/TRAINED enoughSo true, and it goes back decades. Like New York, Houston had early Grumman Flxible 870s that had frame issues. In college (1983), one of my classmates in a civil engineering class (who was from Houston), decided for his solo presentation to discuss a transit equipment problem in his home city. He then spoke about the Grumman (which he mispronounced GROO-man instead of GRUH-min) "Flexi-band" buses that were breaking down because the "Flexi-band" suspension was flexing too much. I exhibited extreme control not to laugh, because it was clear to me as someone who had educated himself on the bus industry through direct contact with operating and manufacturing companies, including Flxible - that my classmate had done essentially no research on the issue beyond what he may have gleaned from news articles, as he had neither the product name nor the actual problem correct. News reporters assigned to "the transportation beat" aren't any better. I often see terrible mistakes in articles about transportation... the NJ.com/Star-Ledger reporter who covers NJ Transit had such a glaring error about the CNG motorcoach order, I had to write to him in the comments section. He responded that he would research my notation. Basically, his figure for the contract price would have made the bus price nowhere near what it actually was. |
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