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FTA awarding $130M in Low-No grants for zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and facilities

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Colorado Department of Transportation. The Colorado Department of Transportation on behalf of Avon Transit in Avon, CO, will receive funds to purchase new electric buses, which will replace diesel vehicles that are reaching the end of their useful life. Connecticut Department of Transportation. City of Rochester.

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400 propane school buses ordered for Omaha, Nebraska

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The Metropolitan Omaha Education Consortium and Student Transportation, Inc., (STI) The contract is the largest transportation agreement in STI’s history and is also the biggest single order to date of propane buses for Blue Bird. Propane autogas offers reduced fuel and maintenance costs due to its clean-burning properties.

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