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Overall deliveries of transit buses in the U.S. and Canada declined in 2020, shrinking from 6,320 units in 2019 to 4,833 units in 2020, according to numbers provided to METRO Magazine from participating suppliers.
Having reached 50 RNG sites in 2015, the organization set the goal to double the number of RNG production facilities in North America within 10 years.
The agency is continuing to balance paratransit and ridership challenges with a growing fleet of clean-fuel vehicles.
VIA’s full fleet conversion will be complete in 2025. More than one-half of VIA’s diesel revenue vehicles have been replaced with CNG buses to date.
The station, built as a partnership between the two entities, is used to fuel City of Columbus vehicles. It is also open to the public and companies with CNG fleets.
The city is beginning a multiyear plan to replace its fleet, while at the same time working through a community-based process to decide the scope and future of the bus program, which advocates say will run out of money in a little more than a year without new funding.
Buses fueled by natural gas would be the lowest-cost option for CityBus in a 15-year project that examined expenses of buying buses, maintaining them and keeping them fueled. The diesel-electric hybrid would be the costliest.
The agency is replacing all of its bus fleet — 152 buses — from diesel to natural gas, and 78 paratransit vehicles from gasoline to natural gas as vehicles are retired from the fleet.
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