No, you aren’t seeing double – or maybe you are, if you’re looking at one of Spokane Transit Authority’s new double-decker buses cruising down the interstate.

Standing at 13½ feet tall, the new buses will be opening doors to the public at noon Sept. 20 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Cheney’s Eagle Station .

“I’m ready to share this with our entire community and our region, and I think that’s kind of what everyone else says as well,” STA Spokeswoman Carly Cortright said. “And you still see it when we’re doing the testing, people see them drive through downtown and people are always like, ‘Oh, look,’ – you can hear them on the sidewalks – ‘Oh, look, it’s one of the double-deckers.’”

The first two buses arrived in Spokane just in time for last Christmas. Now armed with a full seven-bus

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