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Out on the East Canada Creek – June 18, 2023
Nova Bus to phase out U.S. manufacturing, refocus on Canada – UPI.com
Niskayuna residents be like, is it 2002 again? There is probably a reason why most of the smaller transit authorities are all Gillig shops these days, with some New Flyer buses.
For those unfamiliar with NOVA Bus, basically their company model is similar to Volkswagen in 1960s.
They bought out the mid-1970s GM Truck's RTS bus design, and cranked them out until 2003. By then fewer and fewer transit authorities wanted the old RTS designed-buses. Ultimately Niskayuna and Roswell factories closed due to lack of demand.
Then when American with Disabilities Act came around, and low-floor buses were popular, they bought out the Den Oudsten B90 bus design from the Netherlands in 1996, and cranked basically the same design out as the NOVA LFS for the next 25 years.
While they made small design improvements, and transit authorities appreciated how their parts were interchangeable with buses designed decades earlier, the world moved on, and ultimately most transit authorities did too.
Canadian wildfires spread an eerie haze across much of the Eastern U.S. | NPR
So far this year, 2,214 wildfires have raged across Canada, according to Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair. The blazes have burned 3.3 million hectares — or more than 8 million acres.
The country is currently battling 413 wildfires, 249 of which are categorized as out of control, and an estimated 26,000 people remain evacuated from their homes.
Across Qu?bec, more than 150 fires are raging, many of which are burning out of control, according to the province's forest protection service. Authorities have restricted access to parts of the forest and closed some roads.
Air quality levels in parts of the U.S. plunge as Canada wildfires rage
Millions of people in the eastern United States faced unhealthy air quality conditions on Tuesday, as smoke from wildfires in eastern Canada wafts over much of the country.
An air quality advisory was in effect for several regions of New York state on Tuesday. Air monitoring stations on Tuesday afternoon in some parts of New York City showed measures considered unhealthy for anyone.
It marked the second day that hazy skies across a wide swath of the country. Smoke blanketed the landscape from the Ohio Valley to as far south as the Carolinas on Monday. Air quality advisories were in effect Monday in southeastern Minnesota and parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, as well as in more than 60 counties in Wisconsin on Monday.