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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Only buses that are zero-emission will be allowed within the city when the entire fleet is operational, with more restrictions on other types of traffic to cut congestion as well as improve air quality.

Just over half the money for the £82.5m scheme has come from the Oxford Bus Group, co-owned by Go-Ahead and Stagecoach, who put in £43.7m to buy the vehicles, with the rest from the council and government.

Oxfordshire county council received a £32.8m grant from the Department for Transport’s £500m Zebra scheme to fund zero-emission buses.

The partnership, in which both Go-Ahead and Stagecoach electric buses will be rebranded in the same livery, will be underpinned by further traffic measures in the city to reduce bus journey times by at least 10% compared with 2019 speeds – a contractual commitment from the council to ensure the investment is viable for the private companies.

The city already has a number of “bus gates”, which prohibit most other vehicles, and more traffic filters will be introduced by the end of 2024 to push people towards public transport or active travel where possible.

The Oxford launch comes just as Go-Ahead has been forced to temporarily withdraw a small fleet of electric buses in south London after one caught fire on Thursday.


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[-] j4yt33@feddit.de -2 points 10 months ago

If the stupid LTNs wouldn't lead to all the remaining accessible main roads being completely blocked half the day, these new busses would actually be nice. As it is now they're just stuck on St Clements like everybody else

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