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Last year, New York City Council Member Espinal spearheaded a pilot program for electric school buses, however, the buses are still not on the road. We organized a press conference with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and the Council Member to urge the NYC Department of Education to clean its school bus fleet.
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A City Council bill that requires a transition to clean school buses would improve air quality and protect children’s health.
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Slowly but surely, school districts across the country are initiating programs to introduce electric school buses as a cleaner way for students to get to school.
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NYLCV, along with other groups, has been advocating for the goals of Fast Forward to be incorporated into the concrete, budgetary terms of the MTA Capital Plan using funding from congestion pricing.
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Every year, NYLCV reviews the NYC Mayor’s Executive Budget and sets budget priorities that help advance New York City’s sustainability agenda.
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In response to several months of advocacy by NYLCV and its partners, NYC Mayor de Blasio and the NYC Department of Transportation recently announced that they will implement a busway pilot program on 14th Street starting in June. The aim of this program is to prioritize transit traffic making travel on this busy thoroughfare quicker for straphangers during the L-train tunnel repair.
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The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) is embracing solar power in a new initiative that will help fight greenhouse gas emissions and give the authority a new income stream to improve public transit. It plans to lease more than 10 million square feet of its rooftop space to solar power generating companies.
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As more school districts are looking to electrify their bus fleets, they are struggling to afford the costs associated with electric school buses. One solution is the Pay As You Save system. The model would allow utilities to invest in the charger and battery for a bus.
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