WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced 130 awards totaling nearly $1.7 billion from President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for transit projects in 46 states and territories. This funding invests in more than 1,700 American-built buses that will be manufactured with American parts and labor. Nearly half of these buses will be zero-emission models, bringing the total number of zero-emission transit buses funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law over two years to more than 1,800 – and more than doubling the number of zero-emission transit buses on America’s roadways. Many of the grant recipients have pledged to buy standardized buses and vans and avoid customization, which will result in faster delivery and lower costs.
The press release has some examples of which places are getting grants, like Iowa City is getting 4 busses and an updatd to its maintenance facility
This is the second bus grant, so the total funding from the instracture bill for buses is not 3.3 billion
tfw no trolleybuses, the oldest and best form of zero-emission buses
Those would also be cool but I think the focus on standardized buses is to do things quicker and cheaper. Any city construction would take a while
They're building a streetcar in Santa Ana and that's taken like 4 years or so
I think California passed some funding bill for decarbonized mass transit and, despite having existing trolleybus networks in SF, trolleybuses did not count as eligible for the funds.
They just get left behind despite existing networks needing some help.
That sucks, in SF it definitely would be cool to expand that