Plans for 250 electric buses and 1,000 bike hangars in Bristol have been paused after the government scrapped funding. The Zero Emission Transport City project would have included a series of plans to cut emissions from Bristol’s roads, but this has now been “curtailed”.
Last summer Bristol City Council was given £500,000 from the Department for Transport to write up a programme of plans to decarbonise the city’s transport network, which accounts for a third of Bristol’s carbon emissions. This was expected to take six to nine months.
This programme would then be used to apply for much more government funding, to actually put the plans into practice. But after the resignation of two prime ministers last autumn, changes in the government now mean the Zero Emission Transport City project will no longer be funded.
