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Rural electric bus trial fails to go the distance

BUSES

16 March 2018
 

The first low-emission bus project in Wales to be awarded Government funding is being reworked, amid suggestions that the rural setting is inappropriate for electric buses.

The absence of funding to help with investment in low-emission buses has been a bone of contention in Wales since the Welsh Government announced a 25% reduction in its operating grant for buses in 2012. 

However, last August the DfT awarded a £500,000 grant, through its Low Emission Bus Scheme, to Denbighshire...

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