The Biden administration announced Thursday it will invest $1.5 billion in transit manufacturing, including zero-emission buses. The White House announced it met with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to discuss building clean transit buses and how the government can manufacture them at the “scale and pace needed to meet market demand and achieve national climate…
Investing in public transit is one of the top ways we can help address the climate crisis on the scale that is needed. In other words, an investment in transit by policymakers would be a win-win. A win economically and a win in our efforts to address the climate crisis.
A trio of MBTA bus routes in Boston will continue to operate without charging fares for another two years thanks to an investment of more than $8 million from the city, Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday.
Transit systems across Pennsylvania are struggling with inflation, even as ridership rebounds from the pandemic. State lawmakers are struggling to agree on funding to help.