CTA, Pace get jolt to electric bus fleets with new state EPA grant to buy 57 battery-powered vehicles
A $58 million grant from the state's environmental protection agency is bankrolling 27 new electric buses for Pace and 30 for ...
State grant will help CTA, Pace more than double electric bus fleets
A $58 million grant from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency will help bankroll the purchase of dozens of new ...
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Illinois funds new electric buses for Chicago
Public transport providers Pace and the Chicago Transit Authority have received two grants totalling 58 million dollars. The ...
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Transit Briefs: Metra, LACMTA, VIA Rail
Chicago’s Metra selects STV to support its procurement of new battery-electric, single-level trainsets. Also, Los Angeles ...
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Pritzker, Illinois EPA award $58M for electric public transit buses
Governor JB Pritzker joined the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as officials from Pace and the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), to celebrate the award of two grants ...
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Opinion: What the RTA will do — that this transit reform won't
Chicago-area transit is headed for a spiraling decline. Without funding to cover a $771 million budget gap, the Chicago Transit Authority ... up to 40% of its buses in pairs of two (“bunching ...
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Electrified buses are cleaning up urban transit, one stop at a time
E-bikes and scooters fall under the category as well, and so do buses. Public transit is ... On the flip side, Chicago’s transit authority estimates that they would save about $25 million ...