Rants and Raves
Idling Worship And A Blue-Red Town
What to love and loathe about living in East Greenwich this week.
RAVE: I just read that a school bus company used by the East Greenwich school district was fined for idling. In case you didn’t know, idling is limited to five minutes in Rhode Island (it’s only three minutes in Connecticut – though with the parking lot that I 95 seems to morph into in the Nutmeg State, I can’t believe they can get away with less than a 60-minute idle prohibition). The companies will pay a $35,000 penalty and perform environmental “projects” valued at $131,000. I am not sure what the latter means and don’t want to even hazard a guess, though a sugarplum image of bus monitors pirouetting down the streets picking up road litter is making me smile right now. Frankly, I can’t say I am all that shocked about this whole idle …
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Alan Clarke
7:31 am on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Well this expands the fines over a wider field. But it still doesn't negate the notion that if diesel fumes are bad, they are bad for us all. Idling diesel engines are no different than diesel engines that are actually performing their tasks. How often do we see a large truck spewing out clouds of soot as it climbs up a hill, etc.? And semi's often are left idling at truckstops as cross-country … more ›