by Jeff Smith
NY Daily News: MTA to replace diesel work trains that spew fumes in NYC subway
But not the whole fleet, it seems:
But not the whole fleet, it seems:
MTA plans to replace its fume-spewing work trains will help keep subway riders and workers from choking on toxic exhaust.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board on Wednesday will vote on spending $233 million on 25 new diesel-battery hybrid locomotives to begin replacing the agency’s fleet of decades-old work trains that stink up subway tunnels and leave riders inhaling noxious fumes.
The current diesel work trains that carry construction materials and garbage throughout the subway system are a big source of air pollution for straphangers and transit workers, say researchers and union officials.
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The new models will run on diesel in some areas where the batteries are not powerful enough. But officials said the locomotives will spit out less pollution than the old trains — the bulk of which were built between 1966 and 1983.
“They will mean cleaner air in the subway system while we do work on the tracks, and less fuel consumption in our system overall,” interim NYC Transit president Sarah Feinberg said in a statement. “We are in an incredibly challenged time fiscally, but the health of our employees and customers is too important to delay retiring inefficient old equipment.”
The MTA currently owns 103 diesel subway work trains, and the new order replaces less than a quarter of them.
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