{"id":272018,"date":"2025-07-18T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272018\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:28:10","slug":"bradford-and-sheffield-share-28m-grant-for-zero-emission-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272018\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford and Sheffield share \u00a328m grant for zero emission buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Hardy, Air Quality Minister, said the government was &#8220;determined to protect communities from the harm that breathing in dirty air brings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This vital investment is helping to transform the bus networks for the cities of Bradford and Sheffield, providing residents with greener alternatives that will boost the local economy and deliver cleaner air,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The number of buses the money will fund has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hunt said the grant was &#8220;great news for Sheffield&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It will mean we can get more zero emission electric buses on our streets, replacing older, polluting, diesel buses,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Hinchcliffe, said the buses would &#8220;accelerate&#8221; improvements in air quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The clean air zone has improved our air quality hugely and resulted in people needing to visit GPs less with respiratory problems,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Hardy, Air Quality Minister, said the government was &#8220;determined to protect communities from the harm that breathing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-272018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114874240740455686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}