San Diego's public transit system will soon have a fleet of new zero-emission buses, paid for in part by last year's increase to the state gas tax.
The Metropolitan Transit System announced Thursday it had been awarded $40.9 million in competitive grants funded by the state's cap-and-trade program and the gas tax measure, called SB 1. The largest share of that money will go toward the purchase of 11 electric buses to serve a new rapid bus route connecting the Otay Mesa border crossing with Imperial Beach.
Other projects receiving funding include pedestrian enhancements around America Plaza and Santa Fe Depot downtown, trolley track and signal replacements and improvements to stops along the new South Bay rapid bus line.
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