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Cleaner Buses Now: My Op-Ed With Blythe Danner and Alec Baldwin
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How can the MTA clean up its act? For starters, it needs to quickly ramp up its purchase of electric buses, which at this point number only 15 out of a fleet of nearly 6,000 buses. To his credit, at a town hall last week in the East Village, Transit Authority chief Andy Byford reiterated his pledge that the MTA will have an all-electric fleet by 2040.
Click here to read my full Daily News op-ed on the MTA's need to invest in diesel-alternatives ahead of the upcoming Carnarsie tunnel shutdown