Vehicles

==Media==
===City Council approves $7 million for new vehicles===
: July 25, 2006, by Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh City Council today approved $7 million in vehicle purchases, the biggest such buy for the financially strapped city in at least six years.
The vehicles range in price from $17,800 cars for police supervisors to a $600,000 combination ladder and pumper truck, called a quint, for the Fire Bureau.
The 86-vehicle purchase "is really not that significant, given the size of the fleet," said city Budget Director Scott Kunka. The city has around 1,000 vehicles.
It is, however, a big investment in vehicles relative to recent, austere years. The city spent around $1 million on vehicles in each of the last two years, and around $3 million to $3.5 million in each of the three years preceding that, he said.
The goal is to spend around $7 million on rolling stock for several years in a row, he said. That would get the aging fleet back to the point at which vehicles are replaced before maintenance costs begin to exceed resale value.
The Fire Bureau is getting the biggest investment, $2.7 million for three pumpers, two ladder trucks and a quint.
The Police Bureau is getting the largest number of vehicles. Its 49 new cars will include 25 cruisers, plus wagons, detective cars, supervisor cars and a K-9 sedan.
The Public Works Department will get 18 trucks for $1.5 million. The Emergency Medical Services Bureau will get 10 vehicles, including five full ambulances and two van ambulances, for $1.4 million. The city will also buy three sedans for its general motor pool, for $20,000 each. 
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