New York City-based MTA Bus Buys Buses with Clean Diesel Engines
Caterpillar^® Engines with Diesel Particulate Filters Cut Emissions

MTA Bus Company, a division of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority—North America's largest public transportation network—is purchasing 317 Cat^® C13-powered MCI coaches with the option to purchase up to another 158, all equipped with Caterpillar's diesel particulate filter. Compared to 2004 EPA standards, this technology will further reduce emissions by as much as 90 percent.

The purchase of these engines is in line with the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's environmental policy, which states that protecting the environment is the highest priority. Using the Cat diesel particulate filter on all of their buses powered by C13 engines with ACERT™ Technology means that MTA Bus is going far beyond what the law requires in regard to emissions, according to Jeffrey Headean, on-highway engine specialty market manager, Caterpillar Inc.

"MTA Bus has committed to the New York community to provide the lowest level of diesel engine emissions commercially available in North America—this technology will allow them to do just that," Headean said.

The first of the new coaches were delivered to MTA Bus in January, and will continue to be delivered intermittently into 2006.

"The purchase of Cat C13 engines retrofitted with diesel particulate filters is a significant step toward a comprehensive goal of clean diesel to preserve the quality of New York's air," Headean said.

The MTA Bus Company was created in September 2004 to take over the operations of seven bus companies that operated under franchises granted by the New York City Department of Transportation. MTA Bus will be responsible for both the local and express bus operations of the seven companies, consolidating their operations, maintaining current buses, and purchasing new buses to replace the aging fleet currently in service. The seven companies currently operate 47 local routes in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, and 35 express bus routes between Manhattan and the Bronx, Brooklyn, or Queens. Together the seven companies have 1,228 buses, which will make MTA Bus the 11th largest bus fleet in the United States and Canada, serving 400,000 riders daily.

___________________________________________________

Issue 35 11/21/05
To learn more about Caterpillar On-Highway Engines, please visit:
http://www.cattruckengines.com/

About Caterpillar
On-Highway Engines

To find your local Caterpillar representative, Click Here

Subscribe to the ACERT Alert newsletter

Past Issues
Review past issues of ACERT Alert.