Calgary: Calgary Transit transport riders will take stairs up to the admission box for the last time one year from now, as another armada request lets the city resign the keep going of its high-floor transports.

The city reported a 150-transport request Wednesday that will trade the most seasoned of its normal measured transports. Numerous have been around for more than 20 years and have logged one million kilometres every, armada administrator Russell Davies said.

The New Flyer transports will run on diesel, Calgary Transit's customary fuel. The framework has started testing four compacted common gas transports, with an eye to movement part of its armada to that lower-take fuel sometime to come. In any case it can't assemble a common gas transport carport until 2017, and still, at the end of the day will need an armada part between diesel and CNG.

"We would prefer not to be screwed over thanks to stand out sort of fuel. So if the cost of CNG sets out for some soaring, we'll still have diesel," Davies said.

The city's transport armada at present stands at 1,100 vehicles, incorporating more extended verbalized transports and group shuttles. Every one of the 114 of the maturing high-floor transports will leave the framework as the new wheelchair-open buses come in.