{"id":73798,"date":"2025-11-29T00:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73798\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T00:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:53:16","slug":"funds-from-2021-law-provide-20m-to-vta-for-hybrid-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73798\/","title":{"rendered":"Funds from 2021 Law Provide $20M to VTA for Hybrid Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority will receive $20 million in federal funding for hybrid diesel-electric low-emission buses as it builds its fleet to help counter harmful environmental impacts.<\/p>\n<p>VTA is one of 24 agencies across California to receive funding made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReplacing outdated buses with low-emission hybrids isn\u2019t optional\u2014it\u2019s essential,\u201d said Carolyn Gonot, General Manager\/CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. \u201cGovernment funding is critical to reducing harmful emissions, safeguarding public health, and ensuring our transit systems remain resilient for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transit.dot.gov\/lowno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Low-No Program<\/a> helps transit agencies buy or lease U.S.-made low- or zero-emission buses and make critical facility, station, and charging upgrades to facilitate this transition.<\/p>\n<p>Transit agencies throughout California are tasked with converting to zero-emission fleets by the year 2040.<\/p>\n<p>The funding is part of a nationwide federal investment of $2 billion that will go to 165 transit projects in 45 states and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority will receive $20 million in federal funding for hybrid diesel-electric low-emission buses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15502,43131,16088,88,90,89,43132,5539],"class_list":{"0":"post-73798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-buses","9":"tag-hybrid-buses","10":"tag-hybrid-vehicles","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-santa-clara-valley-transportation-authority","15":"tag-vta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}