Bus operators get their green act together

With a background of growing environmental awareness, bus operators are playing to their strengths in order to attract more passengers. Andrew Garnett reports

This month has seen a host of bus operators enhance their environmental credentials to an increasingly environmentally concious public. With this green message increasingly resonating with the public, perhaps at last bus operators have the chance to increase modal shift by playing to their environmental strengths.

In Reading, council-owned bus operator Reading Buses will this month launch a new fleet of low emission ethanol-powered buses on its busy cross-town route 17. Chief

executive James...

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