(Left to right): Peter Grace, sr. VP, sales, Clean Energy; Jeff Sheffield, executive director, North Florida TPO; City Council Member Garrett L. Dennis, District 9; City Council Member Jim Love, District 14; Nathaniel P. Ford Sr., CEO, Jacksonville Transportation Authority; Scott L. McCaleb, Chairman, JTA Board of Directors; Air Jolly, JTA Board of Directors; and Isaiah Rumlin, vice chairman, JTA Board of Directors.
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(Left to right): Peter Grace, sr. VP, sales, Clean Energy; Jeff Sheffield, executive director, North Florida TPO; City Council Member Garrett L. Dennis, District 9; City Council Member Jim Love, District 14; Nathaniel P. Ford Sr., CEO, Jacksonville Transportation Authority; Scott L. McCaleb, Chairman, JTA Board of Directors; Air Jolly, JTA Board of Directors; and Isaiah Rumlin, vice chairman, JTA Board of Directors.
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) and Clean Energy Fuels celebrated the opening of the public-access compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling facility at JTA’s Myrtle Avenue operations campus.
The CNG project was made possible through a Public-Private Partnership (P3) with Clean Energy. This station, adjacent to the existing, private JTA-dedicated CNG station, will provide access to fueling for both public and private vehicles. The ceremony included a ribbon cutting and fueling demonstration. The event included JTA Chairman Scott L. McCaleb, JTA CEO Nathaniel P. Ford Sr. and Clean Energy Sr. VP Peter Grace.
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“By allowing the public and other agencies to fuel their vehicles, the authority will begin contributing to the available supply of CNG in the region, which in turn will help make our region cleaner by eliminating fewer pollutants into the air we breathe,” said JTA CEO Nathaniel P. Ford Sr. “CNG vehicles produce up to 90 percent less smog producing pollutants and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 40 percent.”
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JTA’s goal is to have a fleet of 100 CNG buses over four years and we are well underway with 23 vehicles currently in the fleet.
This CNG project, one of the JTA's transformative Blueprint 2020 initiatives, also included a modification to the bus maintenance facility and a bus fueling facility. Fueling of the CNG buses began in December 2015 with the rollout of the First Coast Flyer Bus Rapid Transit ”Green Line.”
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