Updated: July 17, 2006

City Introduces First Clean Fleet of Tourism Buses

On July 11, at a special ceremony on the steps of City Hall, Commissioner Lloyd represented Mayor Bloomberg to introduce the City’s first clean fleet of tourism buses. COACH/USA/Gray Line Sightseeing group, through a $400,000 grant from Clean Air Communities, has retrofitted twenty one of its familiar red double-decker buses with innovative emission controls and will also fuel the fleet with ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel. This will reduce 85 percent of the harmful pollution that is emitted from their buses diesel engines.

In 2005, Mayor Bloomberg signed into law Local Law 41, which, as of January 2007, requires the installation of emission control technology on older diesel-powered sightseeing buses that operate in the City. The City strongly supports and applauds COACH/USA for doing much more than taking the intent of the Law as its mandate by installing emission controls on its fleet well before the required deadline.

Commissioner Lloyd with Councilman James Gennaro, Chair, Committee on Environmental Protection to her left, NYS Assemblyman Michael Gianaris, and Christyne L. Nicholas, President of NYC & company on the right.

Commissioner Lloyd and Councilman Gennaro, inspect emissions from Gray Line bus and note soot-free sheet of paper tested at the emission pipe.