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Tuesday, 28 January 2020

Bolton News

• Bolton passengers urged to sign up for bus fightPASSENGERS and residents are being urged to sign a petition to try and save a threatened bus service.

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• Go North East to launch innovative pollution-busting bus to help clean up urban airGo North East, part of the Go-Ahead Group, is rolling out its unique ‘Air Filtering Bus’ to help tackle pollution in Newcastle and Gateshead and will be deployed to rotate across a variety of routes in the area. Go North East is part of Go-Ahead’s national roll out of its Air Filtering Bus into six cities throughout the UK as the group accelerates plans to have the greenest fleet of buses in the country. The single-decker buses – which strip pollutant particles from the air as they drive – are also being deployed in Brighton, Manchester, Oxford, Plymouth and Cra...
• More towns and cities to get air-filtering busesBuses that filter pollution from the atmosphere are to be introduced to six more towns and cities after a trial. Go-Ahead's buses have fans on the roof that suck particles into filters. The technology was trialled on the company's Bluestar buses in Southampton and resulted in 65g of pollutants - the weight of a tennis ball - removed from the air in a 100-day period. The buses will be rolled out in Oxford, Plymouth, Newcastle, Manchester, Crawley and Brighton from the summer. A further five buses are also due to be brought into service in Southampton next month. Go-Ahead chief executive Da...
• Bus use falling steeply in England but new markets emergingA new report by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC), Britain’s leading pan-transport think tank, uncovers major changes in travel behaviour across the bus market in England over the past decade. Against a backdrop of falling overall bus usage in spite of significant population growth, the report shows that the traditional core market for the bus has been shrinking. Today’s bus travel is shaped around a smaller number of higher-intensity users, with each passenger outside London making an additional 5% journeys than in 2009. The report – “The shape of changing bus...