Southern Vectis is encouraging car drivers to take the bus on Earth Day – with discounted all-day travel across the Isle of Wight. The Island’s bus operator is marking this year’s Earth Day – Monday 22nd April – by offering discounted travel to people living on and visiting the Island. Bus passengers can already take advantage of the single journey fare cap – part of the Government’s Help for Households initiative – with tickets costing no more than £2. Now, the bus operator is offering anyone using its app a 24-hour Rover ticket at less than half price. Nikki Honner, Head of Communications, says:
“This means adults can enjoy unlimited travel on all our services for the whole of Earth Day for £4. We hope this will encourage them to leave their cars at home for the day and catch the bus instead. “Southern Vectis is committed to helping improve the quality of air we breathe here, and we have been working on this in a number of ways. One of these is to invest in new buses here – as well as working with Isle of Wight Council on a successful bid for funding which will see 22 new electric buses arrive here in 2026. “Bus travel has changed beyond recognition over recent years, and those who haven’t travelled with us recently will be amazed at the enhancements we’ve already made. “Our buses are more frequent, have more comfortable seating, offer next stop announcements and USB charging points for smartphone users, accept mobile phone payments, as well as contactless and tap on tap off – and they sport the very latest Euro 6 low emissions engines. “We hope our Earth Day offer encourages more people to take the bus. If we can convert some car users, even for a few journeys, it could make a huge difference to the local environment in the long term, as well as helping ease the Island’s congestion issues.”
Anyone keen to give up their car for the day and take advantage of discounted all-day bus travel on Earth Day, can download the operator’s app and use the code EARTH24 to buy their ticket.
Perfect what time is the first bus through Havenstreet so I can get to work in Newport for 8:30?
What a load of climate b@llocks
If the corrupt Council were concerned about the climate,
why are they letting the Fast Car event in Sandown take place?!
They know the climate crap is all a con.
I love the Island buses and use them nearly all the time. Helpful, kind and very patient drivers. (My only complaint is to whoever thought replacing the old 4-panneled bus stops with new ones which provide no shelter from rain or spray, was a good idea. Pleasing the corporate advertisers rather than passengers! )
And will SV arrange with IW Council and all the other road diggers to lay off for the day so that all these well-meaning drivers can experience the benefits of public transport? Will they f…
Cheaper by car, no waiting around in the cold either.
Yep, much more convenient too. They couldn’t pay me enough to give up the car for a bus. And no, I couldn’t care less what the lefty climate protesters say.
The Council know the climate crap is a lie,
if it were true, why are they letting a climate busting car
race take place in Sandown at the weekend.
That is why I don’t recycle. I know it is all a load of b@ll@cks.
Leave re-cycling to the thick B’stards.
I’ll take the bus. When does the next one leave St Lawrence?
People who use the bus deserve to be spat on
Are you okay?
be nice if the £4 ticket offer was everyday
I have used busses very little over the past few year,
mainly due to the inconvenience of:
>the time it it takes to get anywhere
>having to go when the bus goes,.. not when I want to go
>having to change bus to get from A to B
> the often dangerous walk on roads without pavements from bus stop to destination (and vice-versa)
but when I have, I have found the bus drivers to be rude and unhelpful
(in one case: ordering me off the bus, ‘because they hadn’t invited me to get on’,,.. Doors opened, no-one got off,.. I got on & was shouted at because the driver hadn’t ‘invited’ me to get on to his bus… and yes it was pi$$ing down.)
I have nothing but praise for the bus service and bus drivers.
But, please, there needs to be a bus service to: Porchfield, Havenstreet and along Forest Road, Newport to serve the prison housing estate, Forest View Nursery and Cafe and Parkhurst Forest.
They drive like Numpty’s
I don’t know who is worse the lawless wreckless thick B’stards who drive for
Isle of Wight Distribution or the Southern Vectis drivers.
Why don’t you go and give it a go mate see if you can do any better. No doubt you’re one of those dippy island drivers who can barely handle a car
I drive Van’s on a daily basis, but I drive safely NOT wrecklessly.
I would not work for a Company who breaks the law, so
NO IW Distribution for me.
same old people winging. You had a bus serving Havenstreet. Wight bus 33. You had a but serving Porchfield Wight bus 35. You had a bus serving St Lawrence railink and 31. You let Vectis swallow up Wightbus with out any protest and now no buses. Sorry but serves you right.
Bus drivers do a great job and it’s an essential service for many.
I won’t use one though as everytime I have there’s been awkward incidents with other passengers.
Perfectly decent people use the bus obviously but for some reason, probably driving bans, so do a large percentage of the Islands scum.
I don’t want be in an enclosed space with those dregs.
Not a chance, takes too long to get anywhere