NEW YORK: New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said that New York City has won $77 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
“This is a huge deal and part of our overall master plan, $77 million to make New York City even more resilient,” Mayor Adams said.
“That starts with replacing dirty diesel school buses with clean electric ones, because when students step on board New York City’s yellow school buses they’re stepping into the future, and it should be a healthy future. We want that future to be safe, clean and healthy, and these funds would do that,” Mayor Adams said adding that it will also allow use to put another 180 electric school buses into service.
“This grant will allow us to put more electric vehicles on our streets and take thousands of pounds of CO2 out of our air. This will allow us to turn one of the world’s largest food distribution centers on the globe into one of the world’s greenest facilities, he said.
Mayor Adams said that the terminal market and this area feeds so many New Yorkers across the entire city, and it was at the cost of their health and healthy environment, and we are going to nchange that.
“This is going to also allow us to grow the green economy and build a cleaner future for New Yorkers,” he added.
“Help us transition our entire fleet to zero emission vehicles by 2035, something we’re moving towards and adding with the electrifying of our school buildings as well, and create new paid internship opportunities to train students in the electrification jobs of the future.”
“Oftentimes these young people are left behind, and we want to ensure that they’re part of the green dollars that come with the green economy.”
He said that thousands of trucks pass through Hunts Point every day. “We want to make sure those trucks are electric, and that is why we are announcing another grant to build the first in the nation electric truck charger at Hunt’s Point and charge over 7,000 vehicles each year,” he said.
Mayor Adams thanked Congressman and said that we can’t do it without our partners in Washington, D.C. Our congressman and the team, Minority Leader Jeffries, have really just called for assistance for New York City and particularly here in the borough of the Bronx, Congressman Espaillat has brought home those resources over and over again.
He thanked deputy mayor Meera Joshi and her team, Matt Berlin, CEO of New York City School Bus Umbrella Services, Robert Reichenbach, president of Bird Bus Sales, and to all who were standing next to city administration during this important announcement, particularly on the federal level.
He thanked everyone here from President Biden who championed the bipartisan infrastructure law, the Environmental Protection Agency and all our partners who are making New York City the greenest on the globe.
US Representative Adriano Espaillat thanked Mayor Eric Adams, deputy mayor Meera Joshi and said that this will help us get away from fossil fuels and help us clean the environment, particularly in the Bronx and other places where, as was said earlier, children suffer from a high level of asthma and other respiratory diseases.
