Press Release – Auckland Transport
Today Auckland’s red buses are going electric.
As part of Auckland’s Low Emission Bus Roadmap, Auckland Transport (AT) and operator NZ Bus today unveiled the new electric fleet for the CityLINK bus service.
Mayor Phil Goff, who attended the launch of the new buses, says the 12 new electric buses will help reduce carbon emissions, and help Auckland work towards meeting its climate change goals. The electric fleet will also be quieter than the previous diesel vehicles.
“Electrifying Auckland’s CityLINK buses helps improve air quality by reducing pollution from black carbon and nitrogen oxide emitted by diesel vehicles,” he says.
Friday, 23 April 2021, 11:48 am
Today Auckland’s red buses are going
electric.
As part of Auckland’s
Low Emission Bus Roadmap, Auckland Transport (AT) and
operator NZ Bus today unveiled the new electric fleet for
the CityLINK bus service.
Mayor Phil Goff, who
attended the launch of the new buses, says the 12 new
electric buses will help reduce carbon emissions, and help
Auckland work towards meeting its climate change goals. The
electric fleet will also be quieter than the previous diesel
vehicles.
“Electrifying Auckland’s CityLINK buses
helps improve air quality by reducing pollution from black
carbon and nitrogen oxide emitted by diesel vehicles,” he
Press Release – Auckland Transport Today Aucklands red buses are going electric. img src ”https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2104/d3b308b9cb96c426ac11.jpeg” width ”720″ height ”480″ As part of Aucklands Low Emission Bus Roadmap, Auckland Transport (AT) and operator NZ Bus today unveiled …
Today Auckland’s red buses are going electric.
As part of Auckland’s Low Emission Bus Roadmap, Auckland Transport (AT) and operator NZ Bus today unveiled the new electric fleet for the CityLINK bus service.
Mayor Phil Goff, who attended the launch of the new buses, says the 12 new electric buses will help reduce carbon emissions, and help Auckland work towards meeting its climate change goals. The electric fleet will also be quieter than the previous diesel vehicles.
Source: Auckland Council
Auckland Council surveys public land to monitor kauri dieback disease and for the first time will be extending its approach to include healthy trees in its studies.
The latest kauri monitoring and surveillance programme has begun in the Waitākere Ranges with teams setting out to understand how the disease is impacting individual trees and the wider kauri population.
Lisa Tolich, Auckland Council Team Manager- Kauri Dieback
, says new remote sensing technology means that over the past few years, the council has been able to get a good estimate on how many individual kauri trees are in the ranges, and from that, draw a sample of trees to survey.
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