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Public commenters press alternatives to battery buses and raise procurement concerns
Summary
Speakers during public comment urged the authority to analyze trolleybus alternatives to battery buses (citing Kirkland Yard planning) and a caller accused a named firm in contract attachments of prior cost overruns; a separate remote caller made unrelated personal remarks and was admonished.
At the end of the SFCTA meeting on April 8, the board heard multiple public comments on transit policy and procurement.
Alex Landsberg, research and advocacy director for the San Francisco electrical construction industry, urged the board to "take a step back in Muni's headlong rush into battery bus-based electrification" and to conduct a comprehensive alternatives analysis that…
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