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NewsJune 18, 2021

OCTA Takes Step Toward Zero-Emission Buses

The contract with One Source Distributors, for approximately $863,000, will provide 10 battery chargers for the 40-foot buses that will operate as part of the pilot program beginning later this year.

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NewsJune 1, 2021

OCTA Plans to Use State Funds to Welcome Back Bus Riders

Other state cap-and-trade funding would expand the agency’s college pass program and help in testing electric buses.

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NewsJanuary 27, 2021

OCTA Taps Stantec to Design Transit Security and Operations Center

The 32,000-square-foot, two-story facility will house OCTA’s Emergency Operations Center, Central Communications, Field Operations, Information Systems, and Security and Emergency Preparedness functions.

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NewsNovember 12, 2020

OCTA Set to Add 10 Battery-Electric Buses for Pilot Program

The contract with New Flyer of America Inc. is for $10.4 million, with substantial grant funding helping pay for the purchase of the 10 buses.

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NewsAugust 28, 2020

Real-time Info to Help Riders with OC Bus Capacity

With the Transit app, those waiting for a bus can get information showing that a particular bus has “many seats," “some seats,” or “very limited seats.”

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ArticlesJuly 2, 2020

Sustainability, Innovation Focus of CUTRIC's Virtual Conference

Originally, the conference was to be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba with an expected audience of some 200 transit operators, manufacturers, experts, and academics.

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Newsby StaffMay 27, 2020

OC Streetcar awards $45M operations, maintenance contract

The line will run on a 4.1-mile route through Santa Ana and Garden Grove. It is scheduled to begin testing and operations in 2022.

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Newsby StaffMay 11, 2020

OCTA accelerates transportation project construction

Measure M, which is helping to fund the projects, is expected to help Orange County make more than $13 billion worth of transportation improvements by 2041.

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Newsby StaffApril 1, 2020

Bergener named deputy CEO at OCTA

She takes over for Kenneth G. Phipps, who retired earlier this month after nearly three decades at the transportation agency.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 3, 2020

OCTA debuts U.S.' largest hydrogen fueling station, fuel-cell e-buses

The battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE H2 buses, built by New Flyer, use compressed hydrogen as an energy source.

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