Miami’s First-in-the-Nation All-Electric Transit Operations Center with Eulois Cleckley and Angel Andre Chavarria

21-08-2024 • 23 mins

Miami's First-in-the-Nation All-Electric Transit Operations Center with Eulois Cleckley and Angel Andre Chavarria

Around the world agencies are switching to low or no carbon buses and with that change comes an even bigger challenge: infrastructure. Battery electric, hydrogen fuel cell, even CNG buses, all require new and different refueling/recharging systems, different maintenance set ups, and sometimes even completely different spaces.

This week you'll get to hear about a bus garage that is the first-of-its-kind in the U.S, a state-of-the-are facility designed to house, charge, and repair 100, 60 foot battery electric articulated buses. These buses will be a core part of a new 20 mile, all electric Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line in Miami.

Eulois Cleckley, CEO of Miami-Dade Dept. of Public Works and Transportation gives host Paul Comfort all the details why this facility is crucial for fast-growing Miami and then WSP SVP Angel Andre Chavarria tell us how they overcame huge challenges in planning and construction to make it possible and break ground.

Next week on the show we head to Austria to learn all about Vienna's amazing multi-modal transit system with Wiener Linien CEO Alexandra Rienagl.

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Host: Paul Comfort
Producer: Paul Comfort
Editor and Writer: Tris Hussey
Executive Producer: Julie Gates

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Marketing content, Transit Unplugged Newsletter, & transit puns: Tris Hussey

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0:00 Miami's First-in-the-Nation All-Electric Transit Operations Center with Eulois Cleckley and Angel Andre Chavarria

00:04 Introduction from host Paul Comfort

00:21 Miami Dade's New Transit Operations Center

00:51 Meet the Guests: Eulois Cleckley and Angel Andre Chavarria

02:19 Innovative Features of the New Facility

04:33 Groundbreaking Ceremony and Construction Details

08:04 Funding this massive and critical project

09:43 Challenging construction, innovative solutions

16:08 Additional Support and Community Benefits

18:43 Future of Miami's Public Transportation

22:28 Coming up next week on Transit Unplugged

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