{"id":48745,"date":"2022-05-26T15:52:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T22:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48745"},"modified":"2022-05-26T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T22:52:17","slug":"supervisor-hahn-applauds-funding-to-fully-electrify-silver-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48745","title":{"rendered":"Supervisor Hahn Applauds Funding to Fully Electrify Silver Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"m_6866243414640940410govd_template_image CToWUd a6T\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ci5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/bTlNc2z8VHw3od3hj5f6Y-6vAb8uXoI2LXJ-B4zwl0amrgJIs4BDJAAj62l4G9LBtrHOKyEcBtLvspyB2wNXeaop_zP7Jl81JGxJ69NtB-khuCWyhAyGDGiNEyy9fsph9bSTcYO4v4XtuGwTNT7gmA3XXnYOl5iqwP_vnJ7b6uDAUtE=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/attachments\/fancy_images\/CALACOUNTY\/2022\/05\/5966538\/4154973\/silver-line_crop.png\" alt=\"Silver Line Credit Metro\" width=\"560\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>San Pedro, CA<\/strong> \u2013 LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn is applauding funding included in Metro\u2019s FY23 Budget to fully electrify the Silver Line bus route from San Pedro to El Monte.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cThis year\u2019s Metro Budget includes a lot of important investments including replacing the buses on the Silver Line with zero emissions electric buses,\u201d said Supervisor Janice Hahn. \u00a0\u201cHarbor Area residents deserve quality, reliable transit that doesn\u2019t contribute to the polluted air they have been dealing with for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Today the Metro Board of Directors unanimously voted for the FY23 Budget, which includes $70 million funding to fully electrify the Silver Line next year. Metro intends to replace all buses on the line with zero-emissions electric buses by June 2023.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In addition to electrification of the Silver Line, Metro\u2019s $8.8 billion FY23 Budget includes funding to open the Crenshaw Line and Regional Connector, to improve speed and reliability of bus services throughout LA County, and to invest in customer experience initiatives, including more cleaning of buses and trains and a new transit ambassador program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Pedro, CA \u2013 LA County&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48746,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48745\/revisions\/48746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}