Letter: Switch school bus exhaust just like the big rigs do

Thursday, Feb. 15, 2001 | 9:20 a.m.

I can't comment on that, but it is irritating to stop behind a bus, especially when it accelerates, and the odors and black smoke collect inside your vehicle. The exhaust pipe is blowing directly into the vents of your vehicle or up into the bus.

The mechanics say they have done much to cure this problem. They have mentioned all kinds of cures except the one to correct all. You must do like all big rigs by putting that exhaust pipe vertically into the air and above the bus roof. If our school district tries this, you should smell no odors from exhaust, or at the least very little.

Let's save our tax dollars and not hastily decide to change all these engines to propane or gasoline, as proposed in California.

CHARLES A. HAGEN

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