The Chicagoland area’s Regional Transportation Authority was created in 1974 to permit public funding and operation of the suburban rail and bus services. Previously, private companies and individual local governments provided a patchwork service, with a route structure largely left over from years past. There was no provision for public

The widespread use of propane as a motor fuel began in the 1940s, although it had been used experimentally since the 1920s. One of its largest advantages at the time was that, as a byproduct of natural gas processing and petroleum refining, it was quite inexpensive; most of the cost

In late 1959, General Motors introduced a new design of bus that would become iconic in North American culture. It represented such a drastic change to the established appearance of transit buses, that they named it “New Look.” GM’s primary competitor in bus manufacture at the time, the Flxible Corp.