The Connecticut Department of Transportation has received a $26.4 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration for the purchase of 20 battery electric buses and implement transit facility infrastructure upgrades for the CTtransit Stamford Division.
The grant comes via the competitive Low or No Emission Grant Program, which provides funding to purchase zero-emission and low-emission transit buses, as well as upgrades to support facilities. The CTtransit Stamford Division provides bus services in the Greater Stamford area with 19 local and one express route, and buses also operate out of the Stamford Transportation Center for connections with Amtrak and Metro-North rail services.
“These 20 new electric buses that will be used in Stamford brings us one step closer to our state”™s goal of a fully electric bus fleet statewide by 2035,” said Gov. Ned Lamont in a press statement.
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