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Champaign-Urbana Getting More Hybrid Buses
URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- Plans are in place to bring more hybrid buses to central Illinois.

The mass transit district in Champaign-Urbana decided Wednesday to spend about $13 million in a combination of federal, state and local money to buy 23 new 40-foot diesel-electric hybrid models.

The district's managing director, Bill Volk, says there also are intentions to purchase 21 more new buses in 2012 and 2013. That would mean the district will replace more than half of its 100 buses.

Each new bus costs $570,000. Volk says once all the new buses are in use the district will be ``100 percent clean-burning'' because its other buses have particulate filters.

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