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Winston-Salem, Greensboro awarded federal funding to expand zero-emission bus fleet

More eco-friendly transportation options are coming to the Triad.

The city of Greensboro has been awarded a $22.4 million federal grant allowing it to purchase six battery-electric buses, 12 hybrid-diesel buses and 26 chargers.

The buses will be added to the city’s existing fleet, while the hybrids will replace similar vehicles that have run their course.

Greensboro Transit Director Reginald Mason released a statement noting that the grant will help the city’s transition to a zero-emission fleet, as outlined in an overall Strategic Energy Plan released in 2022.

The city of Winston-Salem will receive $4.4 million to replace five transit buses with new hybrid-electric buses, allowing it to retire some older vehicles. There are currently 45 hybrid-electric vehicles in the Winston-Salem Transit Authority Fleet.

All of the funding comes from Federal Transit Administration grants being funneled to 47 states.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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