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Bus electrification has numerous benefits: cleaner air, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, improved public health, and reduced noise impacting riders, operators and communities. Though many transit agencies, prominently including Foothill Transit, are proceeding with electrification, these buses remain a relatively new technology, so Metro will be an important proving ground.
In 2017, as part of Metro’s commitment to electrify its entire bus fleet by 2030, the board approved two electric bus pilots on its Bus Rapid Transit lines. At that time, the G (Orange) Line was scheduled to be all electric buses by June 30, 2020, and the J (Silver) Line was initially scheduled to be all electric by June 30, 2021.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that one progressive idea that passes today’s steroid enhanced politically correct litmus test cancels out another progressive idea that meets the same imposed standards.
Killing off working class jobs in the name of social justice in Long Beach PERSPECTIVE
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Mary Zendejas is by all standards a strong community activist.
Her life story is inspiring. The daughter of immigrants who labored as a farm worker and a factory worker, she did not let getting polio as an infant stop her from achieving. Not only was she the first in her family to graduate from college but she has been a dynamic public servant through government service on boards such as Long Beach Transit and now the Long Beach City Council as well as numerous community organizations.