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The front design looks familiar.... Go Ahead London buys 51 all-electric single deck buses manufactured by Alexander Dennis and BYD at a cost of  £ 19 million. Press release from  BYD  and  Alexander Dennis BYD and ADL partner to supply Go-Ahead London with capital's first, pure electric bus fleet BYD, the world ’ s largest maker of pure electric buses - and Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL), Europe ’ s fastest growing bus and coach builder - have formed a powerful new alliance and confirmed a  £ 19 million  deal today that will see the introduction of London ’ s first large-scale, zero-emission, single deck bus fleet. This will also be the single largest fleet of full size electric buses in Europe. The move follows confirmation by Go-Ahead London that they are to introduce  51 emission-free, pure electric buses  on  routes 507 and 521 , which operate between Waterloo and Victoria. The vehicles will be built on  BYD chassis  and powere...

Taking a look at the 1 st  July TFL ’ s Commissioner ’ s report, I can reveal that TFL has issued a  £ 400 million  ‘ Green Bond ’  fund on 17 th  April 2015. From the  1st July 2015 Commissioners report Green Bond On 17 April we successfully issued  a  £ 400m Green Bond for 10 years  following a series of meetings with investors. The proceeds of the Green Bond will be allocated to projects from  five different programmes with various environmental benefits , such as  reduced carbon emissions, improved air quality, noise mitigation and others . The project categories  include capacity improvements  and  station   upgrades on Rail and Underground, New Routemaster buses and cycling infrastructure . The yield on the bond, which compares favourably to the equivalent fixed rate for 10 years borrowing from the Public Works Loan Board, provides a  saving of  £ 13m over the 10-year term of the bond . So basica...

The original plan for the  ‘ New Bus for London ’  (yes their original name) rollout was to have 600 vehicles deployed by April 2016, but the the  Surface Transport Panel has revealed on their  ‘ 2015/16 Surface Plan and Update on Performance Targets ’  paper that their target for 600 New Routemasters has been moved forward to 31 st October 2015. What is also interesting is that their 2015/2016 budget is  £ 110 million for the New Routemaster vehicle purchase which includes the extra 200 vehicles. The completion date for the total of 800 New Routemasters is by March 2016. The Estimated Final Cost for the New Routemaster project is  £ 286 Million. I will emphasise again that the project is nearly  £ 300 million! The original cost for the project, with the fleet of 600 buses was  £ 224 million. The order for the extra 200 buses, which brings the total to 800, started in October 2014. The reason why they want to order them is because TFL board m...

London Bus operator  Tower Transit , a subsidiary company of  Transit Systems  from Australia won a contract to operate bus services in Singapore. They will be operating 28 bus routes in Singapore from a fleet of 380 buses under contract to  Land Transport Authority , a governing body from Singapore. Their operations will commence in the second quarter of 2016. From the LTA Press release: The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded the contract for the first bus package to Tower Transit Group Limited. Starting from the second quarter of 2016, Tower Transit, a bus operator from the U.K.,  will operate the new Bulim Bus Depot and 26 bus services from the Jurong East, Bukit Batok and Clementi Bus Interchanges . Tower Transit will get an estimated total fee of  $556.0 million over the five-year contract period . Tower Transit was set up in 2013 by shareholders of Transit Systems, which has operated public bus networks in Australia since 1996. Tower Transit h...

" Summers Lane - geograph.org.uk - 1264313 " by Martin Addison. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons . TFL have issued the following  press release  about the changes to London Buses route 382: “Local bus services in north London are to get a boost from this  Saturday (4 April),  as Transport for London (TfL) extends route 382. Route 382, which is operated by Arriva, currently runs between Southgate and Mill Hill East via Arnos Grove and Finchley Central will now be extended to Millbrook Park. These changes follow a consultation, which ran from 13 November 2014 to 8 January 2015, which proposed extending the route to Millbrook Park - a new residential development at the former Inglis Barracks site. Once complete the development will include 2,174 dwellings, a primary school, GP surgery, 1,100sq metres of retail and 3,470sq metres of office accommodation. TfL has worked closely with Barnet Council in planning this enhancement, which supports local plans ...

This is a follow up to my previous article which was titled ‘ 2015 prices for tour buses in London. ’ I decided to write another article on this subject because in the last article I left a tour bus out, which was the ‘ City Tour London .’ I have updated the table below, which now includes the  City Tour London  prices and compares them with their competing tour companies in London. The ones I've included are the daytime tour bus services. Big Bus Tour City Sightseeing/The Original Tour City Tour London Golden Tou r s London Transport Bus services Adult £32.00 Online £24.99 Child £12.00 Online £12.00 Family £65.99 Online £59.99 All 24 hour ticket City Sightseeing prices Adult £30.00 Child £15.00 The Original Tour prices Adult £29.00 Online £25.50 Child £14.00 Online £12.00 Family £86.00 Online £72.00 All 24 hour ticket Adult £32.00 Child £12.00 Adult £26.00 Child £12.00 Family £65.00 All 24 hour ticket £19.00 for One day ticket Oyster Pay as you go and/or contactless bank card...