An Inside Look at COTA and their Electric Bus Transition https://urbanists.video/videos/watch/4a4da41e-01e4-4ecf-9966-13e568df7a34 Operating a public transit agency for a city the size of Columbus isn’t easy. For all the talk online, including on this channel, about how to make transit better, it’s a lot easier to talk about making major changes to our transit systems than it is to actually make those changes in the real world. That’s why I was so excited that the good people of the Central Ohio Transit Agency, COTA, agreed to allow me and channel contributor Kyle Campbell tour one of their maintenance facilities and talk to a bus operator, their operations/facilities director, and their communications team. We got an inside look of how COTA runs its system - and specifically, how they are transitioning to electric buses. 📢 Transit Columbus 🚌 LinkUs Columbus 💳 Donate via LibraPay to help expand the channel 💬 Find me on Mastodon Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:19:13 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://urbanists.video An Inside Look at COTA and their Electric Bus Transition https://urbanists.video/lazy-static/avatars/5e1b0dd4-c5ba-4867-a44e-929495166d35.png https://urbanists.video/videos/watch/4a4da41e-01e4-4ecf-9966-13e568df7a34 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://urbanists.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder. <![CDATA[An Inside Look at COTA and their Electric Bus Transition - Dave V. ND9JR]]> https://urbanists.video/w/abaEuyjfGQWPpo94p1Zs7G;threadId=8679 https://urbanists.video/w/abaEuyjfGQWPpo94p1Zs7G;threadId=8679 Sun, 17 Mar 2024 20:30:33 GMT @heartlandurbanist I'm glad Columbus is doing this, as it badly needs some transit improvement. I'm curious, though: what led them to go with BEVs rather than, say, trolleybuses, where the need to have a bus stay in one place would be less? Especially with Dayton and its trolleybuses not that far away.

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