{"id":2443239,"date":"2019-04-21T12:11:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T18:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=304505"},"modified":"2019-04-21T12:11:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T18:11:25","slug":"colorado-to-buy-new-buses-with-money-from-volkswagen-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/colorado-to-buy-new-buses-with-money-from-volkswagen-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado to buy new buses with money from Volkswagen settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/Bustang-GPI-071616-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/Bustang-GPI-071616-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/Bustang-GPI-071616-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/Bustang-GPI-071616-1-325x217.jpg 325w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/Bustang-GPI-071616-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/Bustang-GPI-071616-1-620x414.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"><figcaption><strong>Bustang bus run by CDOT.<\/strong><br \/><em>Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent |<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Colorado will use part of an emissions scandal settlement to replace 28 diesel buses with electric or cleaner-burning vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/04\/18\/colorado-volkswagen-settlement-buses\/\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;the state will provide around $14 million in grants to six transit agencies from the $68.7 million the state received from Volkswagen of America Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The company admitted in 2017 to installing software in diesel cars that activated pollution controls during testing and then deactivated them during normal driving.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Department of Transportation says the funds will be used to purchase battery-powered buses with charging equipment and four buses powered by low-emission compressed natural gas or propane.<\/p>\n<p>Grants between $8.5 million and $183,700 have been awarded to the Denver metro area, Colorado Springs, Eagle County, Fort Collins, Boulder, and Gunnison Valley Rural Transportation Authority.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/colorado-to-buy-new-buses-with-money-from-volkswagen-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bustang bus run by CDOT.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent | DENVER (AP) \u2014 Colorado will use part of an emissions scandal settlement to replace 28 diesel buses with electric or cleaner-burning vehicles. The Denver Post&nbsp;reports&nbsp;the state will provide around $14 million in grants to six transit agencies from the $68.7 million the state received from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 02:41:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}