1. More information about the fund, along with a list of winning bidders and the number of buses they intend to purchase will be available on the Green Bus Fund webpage at: http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/buses/greenbusfund/
2.
Where the buses will operate
|
Number of buses
|
Amount of Funding (£ million)
|
Manchester and Stockport
|
68
|
5.4
|
Greater Manchester
|
46
|
2.0
|
London
|
46
|
5.0
|
Oxford
|
27
|
2.5
|
Bristol, Bath
|
23
|
2.9
|
Leeds
|
22
|
1.7
|
Birmingham
|
20
|
1.3
|
Reading urban area
|
20
|
2.2
|
Taunton
|
18
|
1.7
|
Coventry and Warwickshire
|
13
|
0.8
|
Liverpool
|
11
|
1.2
|
Milton Keynes
|
9
|
0.9
|
Sunderland
|
8
|
0.8
|
Nottingham city
|
4
|
0.4
|
Stratford-upon-Avon
|
4
|
0.3
|
Durham City
|
3
|
0.3
|
Ipswich
|
2
|
0.2
|
Ormskirk
|
2
|
0.2
|
rural Cumbria
|
2
|
0.3
|
Bath
|
1
|
0.1
|
Total
|
349
|
30.2
|
3. The complete list of winners are:
Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive – 66 buses
Transport for London – 46 buses
Stagecoach Manchester – 30 buses
Stagecoach in Oxfordshire – 26 buses
Rotala Plc – 23 buses
First West and North Yorkshire – 22 buses
Reading Transport Limited – 20 buses
West Midlands Travel Limited (part of National Express Group) – 20 buses
First Manchester – 14 buses
Cumfybus Limited – 13 buses
Mike de Courcey Travel Ltd – 13 buses
Hatch Green Coaches – 9 buses
Holsworthy Ltd (trading as Beacon Garage) – 9 buses
Nexus (Tyne and Wear PTE) – 8 buses
On a Mission Coaches – 6 buses
Johnsons (Henley) Ltd – 4 buses
Nottingham City Council – 4 buses
R Bullock & Co (Transport) Ltd (trading as Bullocks Coaches) – 4 buses
Durham County Council – 3 buses
Milton Keynes Council – 3 buses
Blueworks Taxis Ltd – 2 buses
Ipswich Buses Ltd – 2 buses
Bath and North East Somerset Council – 1 bus
Thames Travel (Wallingford) Ltd – 1 bus
4. Bids were received from 17 bus companies and 7 local authorities, for a total of 365 buses with a combined value of £32.1m.
5. Bids covered buses from five different manufacturers: Alexander Dennis Ltd, Optare, Volvo, Wrightbus and MCV Bus and Coach Ltd. Bids were for both hybrid and electric buses.
6. Bidders were competing against each other. Provided all other criteria were met, the grant was allocated to those who sought the lowest amount of grant per bus, until the £30 million Fund had been exhausted. There is a limit of £5 million for any one bidder.
7. Most of the buses are hybrids, but the Fund will also support the purchase of at least 55 new electric buses.
8. These buses will start to operate in England from next summer and all will be in service by March 2012.
9. The Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) was reformed this April so that bus operators will now only receive an increase in their grant if they achieve fuel efficiency improvements. If they achieve at least a six per cent improvement in their fuel efficiency, their BSOG rate will be increased, from first of April 2010, by three per cent. From April 2009, bus operators have received an additional payment of six pence for each kilometre they operate with low carbon buses.
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