New Boston school buses no longer blow diesel fumes at kids in wheelchairs

BPS yesterday rolled out 86 new school buses that run on propane instead of diesel fuel.

Kim Rice, assistant superintendent of operations, told the School Committee tonight that BPS concentrated on replacing older and smaller buses that serve students in wheelchairs.

She said BPS chose those buses specifically because wheelchair lifts in buses are in the rear, meaning students used to have to breathe in diesel fumes while waiting to get on buses.

"What comes out of that pipe now is water, no more of that awful diesel exhaust," she said.