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Straphangers ride the B46 bus in Brooklyn spanning from Williamsburg to Crown Heights, Utica Avenue.<\/p>\n
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n
MTA<\/a> transit officials want to purchase nearly $100 million worth of new buses<\/a>, of which the agency\u2019s board is expected to vote on during its monthly meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Per MTA procurement documents, the agency will spend $97,641,522 on 100 new buses from Nova Bus, (US) Inc., pending board approval. The buses are described as low-floor, 40-foot buses to be woven into the NYC Transit system throughout 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n The buses would be paid for under the MTA\u2019s state-approved $68.4 billion capital plan. Although the plan calls for funding to grow the agency\u2019s \u201czero-emissions\u201d and \u201cfully electric fleet\u201d by 2040, the buses in the procurement request run on clean diesel, according to MTA documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n The request is an addition to an initial \u201cbase contract\u201d of 275 similar, but diesel-electric hybrid buses to replace those that were beyond their 12-year service life, MTA documents stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe 100 buses that are the subject of this modification will include the remaining 50 options as well as an additional 50 buses,\u201d MTA documents read. \u201c When NYC Transit approached Nova Bus about exercising the remaining option for 50 buses, Nova Bus indicated that it had additional production capacity at the end of 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n The agency said it decided to take advantage of this \u201cunforeseen opportunity\u201d by purchasing an additional 50 buses, given the need to replace aging vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n Buses to be outfitted with cameras for traffic enforcement<\/p>\n The new buses, if approved for purchase, will be outfitted with driver enclosure, OMNY fare-payment technology and Automated Camera Enforcement<\/a> (ACE).\u00a0<\/p>\n Currently, more than 1,400 buses are now ACE-equipped covering 560 miles of routes, the MTA said, to catch drivers improperly using or parking in bus lanes in NYC. According to the agency, Bus routes with ACE, on average, have increased speeds by 5% with some corridors seeing gains as high as 30%.<\/p>\n