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8.11.10

Green Bus * UK - Plan parked till 2013

Pioneering council initiative to force polluting vehicles off the road has been delayed


Renfrewshire,Scotland,UK -The Herald Scotland, by DAMIEN HENDERSON -1 Nov 2010: -- A pioneering council initiative to improve bus services and force older, more polluting vehicles off the road has been put back two years after complaints it would bankrupt smaller firms...   The delay has prevented Renfrewshire from becoming the first Scottish council to enact 2001 legislation setting tough standards on the vehicles and services operated by bus companies...   Under a statutory quality partnership (SQP) agreed earlier this year, firms serving Paisley town centre would have had to ensure that, from October 3, 90% of their buses were low-floor, wheelchair-accessible vehicles with engines less than 14 years old...  However, the SNP-led council has proposed a “phased” introduction of the scheme, with a requirement that, by next September, half the vehicles in the town centre are low-floor with engines less than 15 years old... Charlie Gordon MSP, Labour’s transport spokesman, accused the council of succumbing to pressure from operators unwilling to invest in new buses...

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