LA Metro is pushing back the time it can turn over all its buses to zero-emission to 2035.
FILE- Electric Metro G Line buses are seen at the North Hollywood station on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. The G Line in the San Fernando Valley is the first to transition to an all-electric bus fleet. But LA Metro won’t meet complete conversion of all its buses to zero emissions by its own goal of 2030. LA City board members pushed back against the delay on Thursday, April 25, 2024.
“The board should make it clear that when the board sets goals, we don’t do so lightly,” Yaroslavsky said, adding thatand not enough progress has been made in the past seven years. “Getting there by 2030 I know is difficult,” she said. “But I don’t understand the apparent lack of strategy in pursuing this goal.”
Most likely, due to a dwindling number of electric bus manufacturers, rising costs, grid capacity issues and electric bus ranges that do not meet longer-route requirements, the staff recommendation to delay the compliance date from 2030 to 2035 will stand, barring some marketplace or technology changes.
Others from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union and nonprofit groups supported the change to emission-free buses. “If the state deadline is 2040, why push it?” Butts said. “Aren’t we cutting our own throats by having this artificial rush?”
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