BART releases 2022 Sustainability Report, highlights LED retrofit at 14 parking garage
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The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Authority (BART) has released the 2022 Annual Report: Sustainability to communicate achievements in sustainability for the reporting period, 2022 calendar year (i.e., January 1 to December 31).
The sustainability highlights include:
- 358 housing units and 15,000 square feet of commercial space built next to Walnut Creek Station as part of transit-oriented development (TOD) program;
- 442 Fleet of the Future cars incorporated in revenue service;
- 95% of contracted electric supply made greenhouse gas-free;
- 8 million kilowatt-hours/year saved after LED retrofit at 14 parking garages; equivalent to average annual electricity use of about 730 typical U.S. homes;
- 6 escalators replaced in system;
- 26 of CO2e emissions avoided per average round trip, which is equivalent to about 31 miles driven in a passenger car;
- 26 thousand gallons of gas saved from all riders in one weekday;
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification for new headquarters at 2150 Webster Street;
- $49 million dollar grant from CalSTA’s Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP) to improve TOD; and
- Launch of Bay Adapt Joint Platform to identify regional strategies to mitigate sea level rise impacts.
Source: BART
