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Funding Secured to upgrade 150 West Midlands buses with clean air technology

SWM member, Centro, has confirmed that the engines in 150 West Midland buses are to be fitted with clean air technology after the region won nearly £500,000 of funding. The money has been secured from the Government’s Clean Bus Technology Fund following a joint bid by Centro, the delivery arm of the West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority (ITA) and bus company National Express West Midlands (NXWM). The funding enables 27 of the company’s buses to be retrofitted with the technology which can cut harmful emissions by up to 90 per cent, helping to improve air quality in the region’s city and town centres.

The engines of 150 National Express West Midlands buses will be adapted under the clean air scheme. In addition, NXWM is to spend a further £2.2 million of match funding to upgrade another 123 buses and all of the buses will be fully refurbished. Read more at Centro’s website.

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