Charlottesville City Manager Sam Sanders said last night a date has not been scheduled for City Council to travel to a D.C. area community to inform a decision about the future fuel source for Charlottesville Area Transit vehicles.
“A few weeks back I announced that Council had agreed to go on a site visit to Montgomery County, Maryland in regards to taking a look at some work that had been done in that community for integrating battery-electric buses into their fleet,” Sanders said.
Sanders said scheduling such an event during December has proved to be a challenge so the trip will now take place in January as a one-day event.
The firm Kimley Horn was hired to conduct the study. An advocacy organization called the Community Climate Collaborative has arranged for many of its staff and volunteers to ask Council to make a decision before the report is concluded. Read their blog post from November 21, 2023 to learn more.
A final report from Kimley Horn will be given at a work session.
Learn more from some previous articles:
- Charlottesville Area Transit to study alternative fuels, March 14, 2022
- City Council gets update on study on future fuels for CAT, August 2, 2023
- Charlottesville Area Transit fuel study recommendations delayed until January, November 10, 2023
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