ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — In the 2020 State of the State address, former Governer Andrew Cuomo set zero emissions goals for the largest transportation services in the state, including Rochester.
In order to meet the goal of running 25% of its fleet at zero emissions by 2025, the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority received a grant of five million dollars to purchase hydrogen fuel cell buses from Governor Hochul.
According to Tom Brede, this grant will provide hydrogen fuel cell buses across RTS’s transportation portfolio.
“Two forty-foot full-size buses, which are the buses that you see out on the road every day, five vans so smaller vehicles similar to what we use for our on-demand service now, as well as a mobile fueling station which will allow us to fuel the buses with hydrogen,” said Brede.
The fuel cell buses purchased with the grant…