New Start Time for Sept. 26 Event at Treasure Island

San Francisco Mayor Newsom to Spotlight Bay Area's Clean Diesel Bus Program

  WHEN:     Tuesday, September 26, 2006
            1:30 p.m.     NOTE NEW TIME!

  WHAT:     More than 1,700 diesel buses from 13 Bay Area transit agencies
            are being retrofitted with diesel exhaust purifiers manufactured
            by San Leandro-based Cleaire Advanced Emission Controls. Nearly
            1,400 buses already have been retrofitted. Most of the
            340 remaining devices are scheduled for installation by the end
            of 2006. Combined, these high-tech emission control filters each
            year capture more than 50 tons of particulate matter and
            436 tons of oxides of nitrogen, a precursor to ozone.

  WHERE:    Treasure Island
            Great Lawn Parking Lot
            (1/2 mile north of main entrance, facing Golden Gate Bridge)
            San Francisco

  WHO:      Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor
            Jon Rubin, MTC Chair and San Francisco Mayor's Representative
            Jack Broadbent, Executive Director, Bay Area Air Quality
            Management District

  VISUALS:  "White handkerchief demonstration" of clean emissions from
            diesel buses operated by Bay Area transit agencies.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission is the transportation planning, coordinating and financing agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is the agency chartered with protecting air quality in the Bay Area.

   CONTACTS:  John Goodwin, MTC        510.817.5862
              Jack Colbourn, BAAQMD    415.749.4900
              Dave Hyams, for Cleaire  415.296.2021

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