The Connecticut Department of Transportation is seeking permission to resume buying diesel buses after a two year hiatus due to a national backlog in the manufacturing of newer battery-powered buses.

The Hartford Line and the Waterbury and Danbury branch lines also use diesel trains. This article originally published at Why Connecticut could repeal its ban on buying diesel transit buses.

The agency has been prohibited from buying new diesel buses since Jan. 1, 2024, part of a wider effort to convert the CT fleet to electric.

Montgomery County Public Schools received sharp criticism for recently requesting purchase of almost 150 new diesel buses ...

Rapid Bus has launched a proof-of-concept (POC) project to convert four diesel buses into electric vehicles. Partnering with two local firms, the operator is testing whether retrofitting can offer a ...

Two weeks in a row this month, Connecticut Department of Transportation officials were in front of state lawmakers defending proposals to use or buy diesel equipment for ...