POWER FROM THE PEOPLE - the first Yate poo bus

Here they are - photos of our first Yate poo bus!!

Welcome Yate's first POO bus: POWER FROM PEOPLE

POWER FROM PEOPLE

Our first local poo bus is being launched here 3pm, Yate Bus Station today Monday 16th. All welcome.

The biomethane fuel is being produced at the Avonmouth Sewage Works - so your poo could be fuelling the bus!!

(The title power from people was first used about Avonmouth back in the 1980s, when  our very own Paul Hulbert was involved in connecting an electricity generating plant at the sewage works using methane to the mains. The evening post headline at the time was Power FROM the people. )

In technical terms,  the fuel is no better for the climate than a modern high standard diesel bus - BUT it is miles better for the environment overall, because it cuts out delivery tankers and all the CO2 emissions in getting the diesel frm the well through processing to the bus. This is simply captured and pumped locally. 

SUCCESS - Come and launch our first local Biomethane bus

As requested by school pupils in Yate. They asked Ruth Davis  to get them a 'poo bus' a biomethane bus. Ruth took it up with First Bus, who said they would investigate and hoped to get something live by April 2020. True to their word...... they are actually launching a whole fleet of them.

A brand new fleet of 13 biomethane buses is being launched. Come along if you can on Monday 16th March  at 3pm at Yate Bus Station or 4pm a Chipping Sodbury High Street to see one and take a first ride. It will be used on the Y1 service from Chipping Sodbury to Bristol.

A bus does c250 miles to a tank and its emissions are reduced by 85%.  They are also more comfortable, have USB charging points and much better disabled access.

Now we need to get the Wellington Rd service back.

(Photo from Focus Sept 2019 reporting the story! and below the Focus Team with First Bus managers at Yate Bus station)