Tuesday 6 July 2021

London Bus Tender Awards: Route 13 to Continue Using Double Deck Hybrids and Route 204 to Convert to New Double Deck Electrics

The new London Bus Tender Awards have revealed Tower Transit has retained route 13 with existing double deck hybrids and Metroline retained route 204 with new double deck electrics.

LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:

Route

Current Operator

New Operator

PVR

Vehicles

13 (24h)

Tower Transit

Tower Transit

22

Existing hybrid double deck

204

Metroline

Metroline

15

New electric double deck

The hybrid vehicles detailed above will meet Euro VI emissions standards.

The above contracts will commence on the following dates:

2nd April 2022: Route 13.
30th April 2022: Route 204.

Recently, Wrightbus unveiled their new product the Streetdeck Electroliner BEV at the ITT Hub event in Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre which was held on 30th June and 1st July 2021. Wrightbus have relaunched their website to reveal their new zero-emission products on the same day of the event; they have also given a new name for their double deck hydrogen bus which is Streetdeck Hydroliner FCEV.

This will give Metroline an option to purchase or lease the new Streetdeck Electroliner BEV for their new route 204 contract by next year. The other double deck electric models avaliable in the UK market are the BYD/ADL Enviro400EV City and Switch Mobility Metrodecker EV. These manufacturers also demonstrated their electric buses at the ITT Hub event on the same days.

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