Public Transit

Taking the Gillig 4011H home, a 2008 hybrid bus home.

Taking the Gillig 4011H home, a 2008 hybrid bus home. Nothing grows older faster than the future.

I remember when they were new buses, something to try out because they were going to be future of a green, energy efficient economy in an era when gasoline cost $4.20 a gallon locally, and climate change was a problem that everybody thought was a critical crisis to be addressed. Back when Barack Obama was a Senator, and even the New Hampshire Primary was in the distant future. Congress had recently passed the Energy Policy Act of 2007, signed into law by President George W. Bush, that would among other things save billions of kilowatts and millions of gallons of gasoline with more efficient automobiles and consumer lighting technology. Different times for sure.

California Requires New City Buses to Be Electric by 2029

California Requires New City Buses to Be Electric by 2029

If the CARB mandate is met with four years - 2023 - one in four new city busses bought in California will be electric powered. By 2029, all new busses will be electric. It's an aggressive mandate, maybe not fully reachable but it will certainly incentivize public transit authorities to invest in the substations, charging equipment and electric maintenance equipment to make an all electric bus fleet possible.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/climate/california-electric-buses.amp.html

The Busways

The Busways

Real bus rapid transit is fantastic, especially now with electric busses becoming a reality.

Miss Taking the Bus to Work

One of the things I miss about working in the North Syracuse area this autumn is the quiet time I have on the bus commuting to work in Albany-area. 🚌 The time spent on the bus is a time I can work on blog posts and think about the day that is coming up. Driving is an all encompassing activity, it is a time waste, not time I can use in solitude with my phone while getting back and forth to work. ⏰