After months of route preparation, driver training and public anticipation, the Spokane Transit Authority provided its first official public double-decker bus ride on Saturday.

More than 50 people gathered for the noon ribbon-cutting ceremony at Cheney’s Eagle Station – most sporting matching red shirts featuring Eastern Washington University’s mascot, Swoop – posing in front of a double-decker bus.

Behind the red ribbon, the bus stood 131/2 feet tall as several kids recorded EWU President Shari McMahan and STA CEO Karl Otterstrom sharing a pair of large, blue scissors from the bus’ second-deck windows.

Spokane Transit board members Cheney Mayor Chris Grover and Spokane City Council President Betsy Wilkerson stood alongside McMahan and Otterstrom as they cut the ribbon. Swoop the eagl

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