Congestion pricing impacts: New MTA buses and depot coming to NYC
NEW YORK (PIX11) – One week into congestion pricing the MTA has announced the purchase of more than 200 new buses and a new bus depot coming to New York City.
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber announced that the agency has purchased more than 200 zero-emission buses that will take to the streets of all five boroughs.
Transit officials also have plans for a new Jamaica Bus Depot which they say will help bring jobs to the surrounding Queens community during its construction.
“Transit is what makes New York the greenest City…and these new buses, along with all the infrastructure upgrades to bus depots across the five boroughs, mean New Yorkers all over will soon be breathing cleaner air,” said Lieber.
The Jamaica Depot is expected to be up and running by 2027, expanding charging infrastructure for the city’s new zero-emissions bus fleet. MTA representatives say they’re also striving to recruit 20% of the workforce from Southeast Queens neighborhoods.
The new fully electric bus fleet will help eliminate carbon emissions associated with diesel fuel exhaust and will allow for cleaner air for city residents.
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