The trolley buses may be too old for Vancouver to use any more, but the city of Mendoza is paying 2,300 dollars plus shipping costs to have 80 of them sent to the city. The trolley buses are 25-year-old New Flyer Industries Buses which were introduced to Vancouver in the 1980’s. Now, the city finds them too inaccessible: they have poles down the middle of the isle and steps to get onto the bus with no handicap route. Vancouver officials insist that the buses are still perfectly safe to use and that they would not have sold them to Mendoza if they were only good for the scrap heap. According to the Vancouver Sun, Mendoza is pulling together their bus fleet from around the world, and these buses will soon be traversing the city of 900,000 in the heart of Argentina’s wine country.
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