The Clermont Transportation Connection has purchased five medium duty transit buses for the express routes from Amelia to downtown.
The Board of Commissioners, in their regular work session Feb. 20, passed legislation authorizing the purchase and delivery of the buses. The commissioners awarded the bid of $98,226 per vehicle, $8,072 per vehicle for the Telma option and $810 for the aluminum wheel option – totaling a per vehicle amount of $107,108, to the Oregon-based company Transportation Equipment Sales Corporation.
“We (the Clermont Transportation Connection) are looking at taking over the metro express route in Amelia,” said commission president Bob Proud. “That is what the new buses will be used for.”
Commissioner Proud and Clermont Transportation Connection (CTC) Director Ben Capelle recently attended an Amelia village council meeting to share this good news with the mayor and the council members; the new buses will replace the five bus routes that Cincinnati Queen City Metro eliminated in the village early in 2007.