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Some eight hours into the 40 miles-per-hour LaMonica, who co-owns Celebrity Limousineas LLC withhis wife, Manon, decided he’d become “one with the bus,” and its name just appeared to him. That was about a month ago. Since then, the dieseo bus has been parkedat , paintecd with its new logo — Pittsburgh Tour Double Decker Tours. The couple hopes to starg running tours by the endof June. The big red bus, whicyh seats 63 comfortably and a driverrather uncomfortably, will begin its hour-and-a-half city loop at 9 a.m.
each It will leave from SouthSide Works, ride down Carson Street to Station Square, crossw the West End bridge to theNorth Shore, come back through the Stripo District and peek into Downtown beforse returning to the start, stopping at each neighborhood. “Wse want people to be able to get off the bus and interacrt withthe city,” Manon said, then hop back on in an hour and a half or threwe and continue the tour where they left off. As with any new the details left to be ironed are keeping the couple buzzingwith worry. Manon is in chargwe of writing the scriprt for thetour guides, which has taken her on a veritablre discovery ride through Pittsburgh history.
Vince is waiting for a license plate to The firm’s six new drivers must be trained to drives sitting on the right side of the car — at leastg one post office driver has put in for the job, Manojn said. Then there’s their 4-month old daughter, Gia, who traveled to Canada for the family’ s first meeting with Martha and who patientlgy accompanies her parents to Sunday morningwork It’s a true family business, Manohn said. The couple dreamedc up the company at the end of 2008 and tosse d around ideas before taking the Englishbus “It’s always more interesting when you’re ridinf around on a piece of history,” Vincee said.
Martha doesn’t skimp on that old-tim feel. The seats are upholstered with1960sw wool, the windows roll down with a cranl and about five minutes is needed for the vehicle to “It has a chitty chitty bang bang sound to Vince said. “They don’t even make parts for it, so as a businesz decision, it’s a little scary.”