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Replacing the beloved transport vehicles with battery electric buses, experts argue, could be more polluting
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Replacing the beloved transport vehicles with battery electric buses, experts argue, could be more polluting
One month before the T is set to kick off procurement of more than 400 battery electric buses, its board of directors voted 6-0 in favor adding dozens of 40-foot hybrid buses, irking transit advocates who want the agency to move away from any fossil fuel footprint.
The Mass. Bay Transportation Authority has killed off the remaining electric buses the state had operated for most of a century and replaced them with ones that use diesel fuel.
The MBTA will be sending the overhead-electric buses in Cambridge to the junkyard this weekend. Diesel buses will temporarily replace them.
Boston's transit system is one of only a handful that still have buses powered by overhead lines.