{"id":255598,"date":"2025-12-28T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/255598\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:30:27","slug":"important-moment-as-50-electric-buses-join-south-west-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/255598\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Important moment&#8217; as 50 electric buses join South West fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Dozens of new electric buses are now in service as part of a multi-million-pound project, a transport firm said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Plymouth Citybus and Go Cornwall Bus said 50 zero-emission double-deckers were operating across routes in Plymouth and the Rame peninsula as part of a project to replace almost half of its fleet with &#8220;cleaner, quieter and more accessible vehicles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The vehicles were added to the fleet through a <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3d49yljky7o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a331.87m project<\/a> jointly funded by bus operators, the Department for Transport, Plymouth City Council and Cornwall Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Richard Stevens, managing director of Plymouth Citybus and Go Cornwall Bus, said the electric buses marked an &#8220;important moment&#8221; for the firms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;This fleet brings cleaner air, quieter streets and an improved travel experience for our passengers,&#8221; Mr Stevens said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The project has also provided an upgrade to Milehouse bus depot in Plymouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Wrightbus, the manufacturer of the double-deckers, has also funded the planting of 500 trees &#8211; 10 for each electric bus &#8211; across Plymouth and south east Cornwall as part of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of new electric buses are now in service as part of a multi-million-pound project, a transport firm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-255598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115797205621603508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}