sas City metro area. Te Kansas City (Kan.) Public Schools transportation director is overseeing the adoption of CNG. While other school districts in that area of the country have been running on the fuel for some time, especially in places like Texas and Oklahoma, the experience in Kansas City demonstrates what fleet operators brand new to CNG have to look forward to. Te district runs a total of 160 school buses, split al-
DISTRICT LEARNS ON THE FLY WITH CNG Last fall, Los Angeles Unified School District became the
largest operator of CNG buses in the nation. Tanks to special rules implemented by the California Air Resourc- es Board back in the 1990s that require new school bus purchases be powered by natural gas power rather than diesel, school districts in the state have slowly but surely navigated the learning curve for owning and operating the alternative fuel. But elsewhere across the country, CNG has been slow in coming. George Taylor aims to change that, at least in the Kan-
most evenly between large and small. All the large buses currently used on routes are diesel-powered, and about 60 percent of the small buses run on diesel. But 47 CNG- powered, transit-style Saf-T-Liner C2 school buses from Tomas Built Buses, are headed Taylor’s way. Six buses were already being used to train drivers and
technicians on the new air brake system while construc- tion was completed on a new 12,000-gallon CNG fueling station. Te Missouri Department of Transportation re- quires drivers be certified on operating air brakes before the vehicles can be used in service. Te remaining 41 buses will be delivered once certifica-
tions are complete. “We’ve got the horse in front of the wagon,” Taylor joked. But that suits the district just fine. Everyone from the school board to the superintendent’s office staffers to the
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