North County Transit District will receive a $16.8 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration to replace aging compressed natural gas (CNG) buses on Breeze bus routes, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe replacement of aging buses near the end of their useful life will reduce delays caused by mechanical failures, ensuring our customers arrive to their destinations safely and on time,\u201d said NCTD CEO Shawn M. Donaghy in a news release.<\/p>\n
The new buses will be used by the agency\u2019s East Division facility in Escondido, which runs 21 of the district\u2019s 30 routes primarily serving Escondido, San Marcos, Vista, and unincorporated areas of San Diego County, officials said. The division carried more than 2.2 million riders in the last fiscal year.<\/p>\n
Many of the BREEZE routes serve areas with higher concentrations of young residents who depend on public transit to take them to schools, jobs, and essential services. Within a quarter-mile of the 21 East Division routes, there are approximately 745 young residents per square mile, more than three times the transit district\u2019s systemwide average, the release states.<\/p>\n
NCTD\u2019s application for funding from the FTA was supported by U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff, Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, Assemblymember Laurie Davies, San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, and other regional partners.<\/p>\n
\u201cPutting new, clean air buses on California\u2019s streets will improve commutes, cut pollution, and enhance the quality of life for communities all across our state,\u201d Schiff said in the release.<\/p>\n
NCTD introduced its first low-emissions CNG buses in 2001, and they now make up a majority of the fleet. Each new CNG bus can cost between $500,000 and $1 million.<\/p>\n
The district received $29,330,243 from the FTA in 2023 to purchase 23 zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell electric buses. The award included funding to train employees and to develop an apprenticeship program in collaboration with Palomar College.<\/p>\n
California\u2019s goal is to have only zero-emission vehicles on all public bus systems by 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North County Transit District will receive a $16.8 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration to replace aging…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":402178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,190246,190245,38855,190249,190247,190244,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,190248],"class_list":{"0":"post-402177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-cng-buses","12":"tag-compressed-natural-gas","13":"tag-federal-grant","14":"tag-federal-transit-administration","15":"tag-low-emissions","16":"tag-north-county-transit-district","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-zero-emissions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115606884555958462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}