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Transit
Bolt move: MTA to build all-electric bus depot in Jamaica
By Kevin Duggan
Posted on December 14, 2021
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to build its first all-electric bus depot in Jamaica, transit leaders announced at the existing depot in the southeastern Queens neighborhood on Tuesday.
“Transit is the antidote to global climate change,” said MTA’s acting Chairperson and CEO Janno Lieber during a Dec. 14 press conference with local leaders. “This is exactly the kind of investment New York needs to be able to build back better, as we all say, at this critical moment in transit.”
The agency will launch the search for contractors through a so-called Request for Qualification in March 2022, and expects the construction to take about 4.5 years for the $400 million project.
The new facility will house upward of 60 electric buses when it opens and eight zero-emissions people movers will charge and be dispatched from the site during construction, according to New York City Transit interim President Craig Cipriano.
The existing depot will stay open while the new one is built and NYCT will store buses in a new parking facility at nearby York college.
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https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-to-...ot-in-jamaica/