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UK bus firms will only purchase zero-emission vehicles from 2025

By Caoimhe Toman

Date: Monday 09 Sep 2019

UK bus firms will only purchase zero-emission vehicles from 2025

(Sharecast News) - The UK Confederation of Passenger Transport announced on Monday a set of commitments for 2025 in pursuit of a new and greener strategy.
The commitments include only purchasing ultra-low or zero emission from 2025 and introducing discounted ticketing for apprentices and job seekers.

CPT also plans to cap prices daily and weekly ticketing in urban areas across multiple operators.

The new strategy Moving Forward Together includes a pledge to work with government and represents over 95% of the bus industry including the major operators Arriva, First Group, Go Ahead, National Express and Stagecoach as well as hundreds of smaller operators.

The CPT is calling on the Government to introduce a national bus strategy to help deliver better bus services across England.

This would include bus journey time targets for local transport authorities, speeding up millions of journeys to work, school and leisure and encouraging more people to get on the bus.

Buses are a vital part of the UK's infrastructure with passengers generating £64.0bn of economic output annually.

Graham Vidler, CPT Chief Executive said: "Buses are already the cleanest form of road transport and have a crucial role to play in tackling environmental issues and helping to meet important targets on improving air quality and reducing carbon emissions.

"With the right support from government to make the transition the bus industry will buy only ultra-low or zero emission buses by 2025, reducing CO2 emissions by half a million tonnes a year.

"We need government to incentivise local authorities to cut congestion and work with us to examine new ways of delivering transport services that work for more isolated communities".

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