County donates buses to Clarkstown
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- August
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Rockland County turned over four surplus TRIPS buses to Clarkstown today.
Each bus has about 150,000 miles, and are “beyond their useful life…due to the the tremendous number of miles TRIPS logs each day, County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef said.
The county has replaced the buses with new ones purchased using funding from the Federal Transit Administration. 
Meanwhile, Clarkstown’s fleet has exceeded 300,000 miles per bus, Town Supervisor Alex Gromack said.
Town mechanics will refurbish the donated buses for use by the town’s Mini Trans service, Gromack said, a move that will help save the town about $300,000 by avoiding the need to buy new buses for the next two to three years.
Above, Gromack, left, and Vanderhoef, right. Photo provided by Vanderhoef’s office.
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on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 4:50 pm by Laura Incalcaterra. 
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This is all very nice of Mr. Vanderhoef. What a guy, using County tax dollars to buy votes in Clarkstown. Now if he really wanted to help without dipping into all of our pockets, he could have returned Clarkstown their portion of the County tax revenue. It is amazing to me how these people follow one another. First St Lawrence makes this magnanimous gesture to open the Spring Valley pool in July, again with Ramapo tax dollars inorder to buy votes and now Mr. Vanderhoef does the same. How clever!!!