The site serves as an engineering center for e-Propulsion products, including the development of electric motors and upfitting of electric vehicles.
The agency's purchase will add 155 zero-emission buses to the city’s fleet.
First started in 2009, 154 public transit agencies and businesses have signed on to the APTA Sustainability Commitment.
Since voters green-lit the project by approving its major funding source in 2012, some $1.7 billion in economic development has initiated around the 2.2-mile streetcar line.
Establishing a function-first facility that then integrates passive design strategies can lead to more operationally and energy efficient transit facilities.
Constructed at a cost of $135 million, the 67,000-square-foot ARTIC terminal allows 10,000 daily riders to move seamlessly between transit services that include Amtrak, Metrolink, OCTA and intercity buses.
Conventional wisdom figures that transit agencies would naturally lean toward sustainability. After all, getting people out of their cars and reducing their carbon footprint is a major selling point to many massive public works projects, especially in congested regions with progressive constituencies.
Over the past 10 years, the green building community has helped shape a blossoming landscape filled with healthy, high-performing green buildings, homes and communities worldwide.
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