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Light the Night 2011
Light the Night Sept. 15, 2011 MTD cares about our community bicyclists. Individuals who bicycle are reducing congestion, greening the earth, and promoting alternative transportation modes. Oftentimes,...
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Green Light: Hybrid Buses
One of the 13 new, hybrid buses being serviced at MTD's Maintenance Facility. If you’re tuned in with MTD on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, you’ve probably heard some buzz about the addition of 13, new...
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Green Light: MTD’s Intern Gives Her Vision of Sustainability
Welcome our inaugural guest blogger, Jane Sullivan, who began her internship at MTD in January 2012. Going Greener As you may have read in previous blog posts, MTD is in the process of implementing an...
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Green Light: Adopt Urbana
Our street signage declaring our adoption of Windsor Road between Philo and Race. Giving Back MTD is celebrating the second year of our adoption. In 2011, we signed onto the City of Urbana’s Adopt...
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Green Light: Significant Aspects Part One
Sustainability Intern, Jane Sullivan, returns to guest blog and school us on MTD’s ESMS. Two posts (one and two) were published in previous Green Lights about MTD’s Environmental and Sustainability...
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Green Light: Significant Aspects Part Two
Sustainability Intern, Jane Sullivan, returns to guest blog and school us on MTD’s ESMS (again). Last month, I detailed three out of six of our significant aspects. In this post, you guessed it, I’ll...
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Green Light: ESMS Audit
Welcome back guest blogger, Jane Sullivan, who is no longer an intern but a full-time staff member! Sullivan is MTD’s Sustainability and Transportation Planner. This May, MTD welcomed two visitors from...
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Green Light: OUTSIDE at the Research Park
Green Living “Go Outside and Go Green,” read the headline for the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts‘ returning event, OUTSIDE at the Research Park. The event coordinators held two outdoor...
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Green Light: New Significant Aspects
This week’s guest blogger, Jane Sullivan, gives an update on MTD’s Environmental and Sustainability Management System (ESMS). Sullivan is MTD’s Sustainability and Transportation Planner. As you have...
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Green Light: More Than Buses
Our monthly Green Lights posts mostly focus on our buses, Maintenance Facility, and pursuit of ISO 14001 Certification for our Environmental and Sustainability Management System. A constant source of...
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Green Light: Record Ridership
MTD is proud to report another year of record ridership! Fiscal year 2013, which ran from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013, returned 12,028,172 passenger trips. We also maintained a 98 percent...
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Green Light: What MTD’s ISO 14001:2004 Certification Means to You
The Certificate of Approval for ISO 14001:2004 certification from our registrar, LRQA. You may have seen the coverage on WCIA Channel 3 or read the article in The Daily Illini reporting MTD’s...
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Green Light: MTD’s New Year’s Resolutions
MTD regrets the delayed publication of our weekly blog post, which is usually every Monday at 3 pm. But we are proud of the service we put on the street January 6, 2014 in the extreme cold weather and...
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Green Light: Why is MTD Going Green?
This month’s Green Light was written by MTD’s Sustainability and Transportation Planner, Jane Sullivan. Illinois Terminal being served by an MTD hybrid bus. Bitter temperatures and heavy snowfall can...
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Green Light: Sustainability Leader
MTD shines a “green light” on our environment-focused efforts once a month on the blog. In honor of Earth Month and Earth Day, we’re going to do it twice in April! The large lecture hall in Roanoke,...
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Green Light: Solar Dashboard
This post was written by Jane Sullivan, MTD’s Grant Manager and Sustainability Planner. The roof of MTD’s Maintenance Facility in Urbana is now home to more than one thousand solar panels. Installation...
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Green Light: Illinois Green Office Challenge
This post was written by Jane Sullivan, MTD’s Grant Manager/Sustainability Planner. MTD is always up for a challenge, especially an environmental one. That’s why MTD is participating in the Illinois...
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Green Light: Expanding Our Fenceline, Reducing Our Impact
The journey of MTD’s Environmental and Sustainability Management System (ESMS) began in 2011 and the Maintenance Facility was officially certified to the ISO 14001:2004 Standard two years later in...
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Green Light: MTD Employees Celebrate Boneyard Creek Community Day
The Boneyard Creek Community Day is centered around Scott Park. Volunteers will spread out and around the Boneyard Creek. This Saturday, April 18 is the 10th anniversary of Boneyard Creek Community...
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Green Light: C-U Bike Month
May is National Bike Month and the Champaign-Urbana community is in the midst of celebrating! There are several sponsored events throughout the month including seven opportunities to get this year’s...
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