A year on from its launch, Go-Ahead has announced its air filtering buses will be deployed in six more regions.
The single-decker buses – which strip pollutant particles from the air as they drive – will be deployed in Brighton, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford, Plymouth and Crawley/Gatwick. The buses will hit the streets from the early summer.
The bus has an air-filtering system made up of three fans on the roof which suck pollutant particles into special filters.
At last year’s launch initial tests showed that a single bus could remove as much as 65g of pollutants from the air – equivalent to the weight of a tennis ball – in a 100-day period (and cleaned 3.2 million cubic meters of city air).
Go-Ahead has also confirmed that it is introducing five more of the vehicles into Southampton by early February, covering an entire city centre route.
David Brown, Go-Ahead Chief Executive, says: “We want to play our part in tackling the crisis in urban air quality and show that buses can be integral to
