NJ Transit was one of 150 recipients of grants for low and zero emission bus fleets and infrastructure from the Federal Transit Administration.
The state transit agency will receive a $44.67 million grant to renovate the decommissioned Union City bus garage, announced by FTA officials on Tuesday and funded byThe north end of the property was leased to the Union City Department of Public Works to store vehicles, equipment, and road salt.
But recent inspections determined the building was unsafe due to structural problems, and all personnel are currently barred from entry, according to the agency’sLong term plans calls for demolishing the building and rebuilding a new facility for maintenance and storage of articulated and zero emission buses. The FTA grant also said a public bus depot would be included in the project. That project will create a public bus terminal, install charging and other electric bus infrastructure and build administrative space, according to the grant. That project is estimated to cost a total of $68 million, according to NJ Transit’s capital plan. “Buses are the workhorses of the transit industry, millions of Americans rely on American made transit buses,” said Nuria Fernandez, FTA administrator during a press call about the grants. “The infrastructure law creates an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of millions who ride the bus.” The program is funding the purchase of 1,800 buses total, 1,100 of them are “zero emission” electric or hydrogen powered, Fernandez said. Most are replacing older buses, FTA officials said. The grants were funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that provides $5.5 billion over five years for theDespite that higher funding level, there were 530 applications that were valued at more than $7 billion. The grant allows NJ Transit to add one more bus garage to the five that will be outfitted for electric buses, outlined in its capital plans. The first garage on Newton Avenue in Camden was equipped with charging infrastructure earlier this year for an eight bus pilot program. Those buses are scheduled to arrive later this year and data from their use will provide allow NJ Transit to decide how electric buses could be deployed on the statewide bus system. For the agencies and applications that didn’t get funded in this round, Fernandez said there will be another round of grants in fiscal year 2023 and the FTA has other bus and bus facilities formula funding each state receives.
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