Clean-Fuel Rule Calls for New City Vehicles
Those sooty, smoky trash trucks and buses that lumber down city streets will eventually run on cleaner-burning fuel, under a new policy adopted Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council.
The new clean-fuel regulations call for all 650 trash trucks, plus city transit buses and other fleet vehicles, to be replaced by 2003.
“It’s critically important because we know air pollution is a contributing factor to substantial health risks,” said Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, who recommended the policy.
The city has about 15,000 trash trucks, buses and other vehicles, Ridley-Thomas said.
Bus replacement is expected to cost $18 million to $20 million, Ridley-Thomas said, and trash truck conversion from $68 million to $100 million.
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