The agency estimates it will save about $20,000 a year in diesel fuel costs with each electric bus.
The agency’s fare free electric shuttle, AVA, will begin serving the public as part of a three-month pilot in downtown St. Petersburg.
The BRT project, dubbed the SunRunner, will connect St. Petersburg to the county’s world-famous beaches.
A total of 202 buses are now equipped with the protective barriers.
First started in 2009, 154 public transit agencies and businesses have signed on to the APTA Sustainability Commitment.
The safety upgrades come after HART bus driver Thomas Dunn was stabbed and killed on the job by a passenger on May 18 in Tampa.
With faster, more reliable service, PSTA projects ridership to increase to 5,000 rides a day.
Planned safety upgrades come less than three weeks after HART bus driver Thomas Dunn was murdered on the job by a passenger.
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