Southern Vectis is encouraging car drivers to take the bus on Earth Day (Friday 22nd April) – by offering heavily discounted travel to people living on and visiting the Isle of Wight.
The local bus operator is offering passengers a half price 24 hour Rover ticket – encouraging them to leave their cars at home for the day and catch the bus instead. This means adults will be able to travel on local bus services for the whole of Earth Day from just £5.
Nikki Honer, Southern Vectis’ head of communications, says:
“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 – including investing new, greener, vehicles.
“A double decker bus has the potential to take up to 75 cars off the road, and we’re asking people to leave their own vehicles at home on Earth Day.
“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 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 all-day half price bus travel on Earth Day, can visit Southern Vectis’ app and use the code EARTH22 to buy their ticket.
What a load of rubbish, southern vectis wants to improve air quality? easy, take your overpriced, road blocking, empty mobile germ factories off the road, then the traffic can flow more freely, sorted..
At half price the tickets are still twice as expensive as they should be. No wonder most of the busses run 90% empty. How “green” is that????
The Buses are only Green in Colour.
Most buses running around the Island are Double Deckers with only an handful of customers on them.
Most routes only need mini buses operating, by not wasting ridiculous money on large buses, the money saved would help the bus company reducing fares,
Next time when you see a Double Decker bus, try and count the number of passengers.
THEY ARE ONLY FULL AT FESTIVAL TIMES
And in the whole of the summer season. You been on one recently ?
And in the winter rush hours.