Sentences with phrase «replace old buses»

This will allow transit systems to make investments to replace old buses, repair aging facilities and modernize fare collection equipment.

The program encourages policies and practices to eliminate unnecessary public school bus idling, uses upgrading («retrofitting») buses that will remain in the fleet with better emission control technologies and / or fueling them with cleaner fuels as well as replaces the oldest buses in the fleet with new, less polluting buses.

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For instance, they've offered school bus rebates to replace older diesel school buses.

Money will also be used to install anti-idling technology in two dozen school buses in the Tooele School District and replace 21 older buses in five school districts.

Transit plans to replace 12 buses with 19 - 20 zero - emission electric buses, starting with the oldest models.

Secretary LaHood was in Baltimore today to announce one of the projects, a $ 40 million grant to replace Baltimore's 65 - year - old Kirk Bus Facility.

Another effective method is to replace the oldest school buses in the fleet.

There are also substantial green employment opportunities in retrofitting old diesel buses to reduce air pollutants and in replacing old equipment with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) or hybrid - electric buses.

In addition, 50,000 old taxis and 10,000 buses have been replaced, and 4,000 new buses are powered by natural gas — now the largest fleet of its kind in the world.