LA Metro approves contracts for high-capacity rail projects
LA Metro has approved contracts for two significant rail projects in the city, as it looks to relieve congestion on the much maligned I-405 freeway which bypasses the city.
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LA Metro has approved contracts for two significant rail projects in the city, as it looks to relieve congestion on the much maligned I-405 freeway which bypasses the city.
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The purchase is said to represent a major step forward to realising Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City of Los Angeles’ commitment to meet environmental sustainability goals and transition to a 100 per cent zero-emission bus fleet by 2028.
A number of initiatives, including bus and light rail infrastructure improvements and accelerating the city’s bus fleet target to be zero-emission, have been launched in LA to combat the climate crisis.
Los Angeles and London hope to expand the ‘Innovator Cities’ network to more cities, allowing more communities around the world to benefit from the transport innovation that the collaborative hopes to develop.
The partners of the project aim to work together in 2020 to develop policies, put pilots in place and seek other strategies to achieve the targets set out in the Zero Emissions 2028 Roadmap 2.0.
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