{"id":1354,"date":"2021-01-18T12:42:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2021-01-18T12:42:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T17:42:22","slug":"good-news-ottawa-to-get-electric-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/2021\/01\/18\/good-news-ottawa-to-get-electric-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News! Ottawa to get electric buses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have been actively working on convincing the powers-that-be of the advantages of, and the necessity for, cleaning up our public transit system. We did a lot of work under the umbrella &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plugincanada.ca\/\">Plug in Canada!<\/a>&#8220;, and are pleased to report that it has paid off&#8230;<strong>The people have spoken, and our leaders are listening.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities recently announced funding for 4 new&nbsp;battery-electric buses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\" id=\"wb-cont\">Ottawa to purchase new electric buses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/office-infrastructure\/news\/2020\/12\/ottawa-to-purchase-new-electric-buses.html\">News release<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/office-infrastructure.html\">Infrastructure Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Views: 305<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been actively working on convincing the powers-that-be of the advantages of, and the necessity for, cleaning up our public transit system. We did a lot of work under the umbrella &#8220;Plug in Canada!&#8220;, and are pleased to report that it has paid off&#8230;The people have spoken, and our leaders are listening. The Honourable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-blog"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}