They plan big projects while bus companies have mainly thought about delivering their coaches to market.
Projects include bus benches with reading libraries and horse camps for inner city kids.
Dario Hidalgo, a senior engineer at Embarq in Colombia who advises governments on transit, said companies that made light rail systems, like Alstom and Bombardier, had long been more organized to lobby and pursue projects than bus makers.
Career 1979-83: printeacheraCambrideshireeshire College of Arts and Technology; 1983-90: part-time community service sessional supervisor, Cambridge Probation Service; 1990: project worker, Cyrenean Bus Project, which merged with Wintercomfort.
His most celebrated project, The Bus: The Free Photographic Omnibus (1973-2001), began in 1973 with the purchase of a 1948 Leyland Titan PD1 double-decker bus for £360.20.
In this show he presents his latest project, a bus called the Geocruiser, which serves as both a mobile library and seed repository with a reading room, solar-powered photocopier and greenhouse.
It's calling this "Project Black Bus" — black being the typical color of London's traditional taxis.
A year ago, The Globe and Mail heralded the opening of PGP Canada with a 2-week series on personal genomics, promoting the series and the project on bus-stop billboards throughout the city.
Gilbert "Magu" Lujan's vinyl mural on the Side Street Project's woodworking bus (photo courtesy of Side Street Projects).
All transportation options, including road projects and train, bus and ferry service, will be considered.
Amid the recent surge of work, one of Armenco's hardest projects was the bus for Le Truc.
