{"id":11250,"date":"2017-07-14T18:48:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T22:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dgsc.ca\/?p=11250"},"modified":"2017-11-13T14:23:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T18:23:43","slug":"ville-de-red-deer-lalberta-sengage-dans-la-flotte-de-bus-cng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/ville-de-red-deer-lalberta-sengage-dans-la-flotte-de-bus-cng\/","title":{"rendered":"Ville de Red Deer, l&rsquo;Alberta s&rsquo;engage dans la flotte de bus CNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Red Deer, Alberta has launched new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses, joining the fleet of Red Deer Transit as a\u00a0\u2018greener\u2019 way of providing service to its customers.\u00a0The newly launches buses replace, on July 11, replaced 17 aging diesel buses.<!--more-->The city has committed to an ongoing replacement program to continue the transition to natural gas fuel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ngvglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Nova-CNG-Buses-for-Red-Deer-Transit-Jul2017-sm-250x152.jpg\" alt=\"Nova CNG Buses for Red Deer Transit\" width=\"250\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The CNG Transit Bus project originated as part of the city\u2019s Environmental Master Plan as a strategy to green the fleet, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from city fleet vehicles. After extensive environmental and economic analysis, Council agreed to move forward with compressed natural gas, as it could be integrated into other sub-fleets, increasing synergies and further reducing harmful emissions.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, all diesel-fueled transit buses will be replaced with CNG buses as they reach the end of their lifespan, which typically lasts 18 years. Sixteen of the 17 new buses were purchased by the City of Red Deer using federal Gas Tax Fund and provincial Green Transit Incentives Program (GreenTRIP). One bus was paid for by Red Deer County. It will be used by Red Deer Transit for service to the County.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49121 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ngvglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Nova-CNG-Bus-for-Red-Deer-Transit-Jul2017-250-250x167.jpg\" alt=\"Nova CNG Bus for Red Deer Transit\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" \/>In addition to being more environmentally friendly, CNG buses run quieter and are more cost efficient than our current diesel-fueled buses.\u00a0Trever Sparrow,\u00a0Superintendent, Conventional Transit Services, is excited about the change to CNG. \u201cWe expect to see significant savings on fuel as the cost of CNG fuel is approximately 44% less than diesel and buses get 33% better mileage using CNG. \u00a0In addition, we expect the range on a CNG bus to be 900-1000 km versus 600-700 on a diesel bus,\u201d he told NGV Global News.<\/p>\n<p>The bus brand is Nova Bus, headquartered in Quebec and the buses were built in New York.<\/p>\n<h5>CNG Station<\/h5>\n<p>In addition to purchasing 17 new buses, there was a new CNG fueling site constructed at the City of Red Deer Civic Yards for the buses to be fueled. Infrastructure upgrades were also completed to the bus storage facility and civic garage. These included adding or improvements to gas detection monitoring, electrical, heating and air handling systems to accommodate the new CNG buses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: City of Red Deer, Alberta<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Red Deer, Alberta has launched new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses, joining the fleet of Red Deer Transit as a\u00a0\u2018greener\u2019 way of providing service to its customers.\u00a0The newly launches buses replace, on July 11, replaced 17 aging diesel buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[913,919,921,908,905,906,935,912,915,910,918,914,916,922,924,917,907,911,909,920],"class_list":["post-11250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles","category-186","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11253,"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions\/11253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11250"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgsc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}