The elimination of diesel buses is a step entirely within the state's power to take.

Since then the suburb has been served by diesel buses.

Each could cost $50,000 to $80,000 more than conventional diesel buses.

The buses themselves cost $277,000, $42,000 more than a standard diesel bus.

Between the start of production in 1985/86 and 1988 more than 600 diesel buses had been delivered to various cities.

"No diesel bus now on the roads will meet those standards," he said.

In 1959 this line was converted to operate with diesel buses.

Potter went back out through the kitchen, and when he started his car it sounded like a diesel bus.

In the past, diesel buses also ran until being retired.

Of the 302 diesel buses in the fleet before the war, only 48 remain.