Modernizing But Not


North Carolina’s Union County Public School’s new 27,087-square-foot transportation center consists of a two-ton bridge crane, but electric school bus infrastructure didn’t make the cut.


Districts are powering up new transportation centers, but upgrades aren’t always in response to a push to plug into electric vehicles


Written by Eric Woolson


York. “Maybe even a couple months ago, it was, ‘Hey, there are these buses out there. A couple of districts have had them a couple years and a few more districts are getting them.’ But it’s not going to be like CNG, which just kind of came and went. I don’t think it’s going to be like that at all.” Electric buses require charging stations to keep the wheels turning. And


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or Karim Johnson, there’s no doubt what the future of pupil transportation looks like. “The electric school bus is here it stay,” said Johnson, who in December 2020 was named the director of student transportation at the Bethlehem Central School District in Delmar, New


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