City of Milwaukee - Public Transportation

City of Milwaukee - Public Transportation

The City of Milwaukee need to layoff the current gasoline powered vehicles while hiring alternative fuel powered vehicles for service. In today’s environmentally conscious society, major emphasis is being placed on the government to become greener and cleaner. The City of Milwaukee is spending a tremendous amount of the current budget to fuel and maintain inefficient gasoline powered vehicles; it has left the city in a continuous substantial annual deficit. The City of Milwaukee should begin using taxpayers’ dollars to fund public service alternative fuel vehicles, which have a higher standard of safety, increased reliability, and lower cost of ownership. Other states and branches of government have used alternative fuel vehicles with astonishing results and public acceptance.
Public transportation has an essential role in the City of Milwaukee by allowing its citizens access to affordable and reliable transportation throughout the metro area, as well as, surrounding counties but the recent rise in fuel cost has placed a severe pinch on the Milwaukee County Transit Service (MCTS) budget. To maximize profit, the MCTS has eliminated routes and raised fares, which has had a backlash affect with dwindling rider attendance and increase in violent activity that jeopardizes patron’s safety and public appeal. The current diesel engines that propels the 10,000-pound beasts to an average cruising speed of 20 miles per hour between route stops are extremely deafening to riders and are fuel inefficient due to frequent stop and go driving; a radical method to increase profits, public appeal, and fuel efficiency is convert all the diesel engines to either hydrogen or natural gas propel vehicles. Hydrogen is a simple and abundant element throughout the universe that does not appear naturally in the environment but can be separated from water molecules, hydrogen and oxygen atoms, which can be used to power fuel cells. Fuel cells are currently being tested overseas in...

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