Bus manufacturers and transport experts from across the UK gathered at the bus conference to hear speakers including the new Minister for Busses, Nus Ghani.
The attendees were so excited by the annual summit that “UK Bus Summit” became the top trending hashtag in London for 4 hours.
Opening the conference, Nus Ghani announced a £40m retrofit funding to clean the buses in UK cities, including London. The fourth annual UK Bus Summit focussed on why buses are an integral part of the solution to Clean Air Zones rather than the problem.
Delegates heard that the UK is the leading the world’s expertise in low and zero emission buses.
Gareth Powell, Director of Public Transport & Strategy at Transport For London, told an excited summit that a combination of Euro 6 buses plus work on improving traffic flows, bus priority and parking controls is responsible for a 90% reduction in air quality limit breaches in the Putney Low Emission Zone since 2016.
“London continues to grow and it can’t do it without buses”, said Lili Matson, Head of Strategy and Outcome Planning for Surface Transport at Transport for London, “Cycling and walking are how London cope when population increases to 10 million.”
The future looks bright for busses, despite the disappointment of some tweeters that they’ll have to wait another year until the next conference.
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Bus manufacturers and transport experts from across the UK gathered at the bus conference to hear speakers including the new Minister for Busses, Nus Ghani.
The attendees were so excited by the annual summit that “UK Bus Summit” became the top trending hashtag in London for 4 hours.
Opening the conference, Nus Ghani announced a £40m retrofit funding to clean the buses in UK cities, including London. The fourth annual UK Bus Summit focussed on why buses are an integral part of the solution to Clean Air Zones rather than the problem.
Delegates heard that the UK is the leading the world’s expertise in low and zero emission buses.
Gareth Powell, Director of Public Transport & Strategy at Transport For London, told an excited summit that a combination of Euro 6 buses plus work on improving traffic flows, bus priority and parking controls is responsible for a 90% reduction in air quality limit breaches in the Putney Low Emission Zone since 2016.
“London continues to grow and it can’t do it without buses”, said Lili Matson, Head of Strategy and Outcome Planning for Surface Transport at Transport for London, “Cycling and walking are how London cope when population increases to 10 million.”
The future looks bright for busses, despite the disappointment of some tweeters that they’ll have to wait another year until the next conference.
