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As we are in July and close to the General Election in the UK, Transport for London (TfL) has announced a new round of London Bus tender awards, which reveal that the three-door, two-staircase hybrid New Routemaster will continue on route 68 and new electric buses will launch on routes 268 and 287.
LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:Route 68/N68
Retained By: Transport UK London
Peak Vehicle Requirement (PVR): 21
Vehicles: Existing New Routemaster
Contract Start Date: 29th March 2025
Contract End Date: 29th March 2030
Route 94 (24h)
Retained By: RATP Dev London United
PVR: 18
Vehicles: Existing electric double deck
Contract Start Date: 7th December 2024
Contract End Date: 5th December 2031
Route 225
Current Operator: Go-Ahead London Central
New Operator: Stagecoach Selkent
PVR: 6
Vehicles: Existing diesel single deck
Contract Start Date: 15th March 2025
Contract End Date: 17th March 2028
Route 268
Retained By: Metroline
PVR: 6
Vehicles: New electric single deck
Contract Start Date: 7th June 2025
Contract End Date: 4th June 2032
Route 287
Retained By: Stagecoach East London
PVR: 8
Vehicles: New electric double deck
Contract Start Date: 22nd March 2025
Contract End Date: 19th March 2032
Route 468
Retained By: Arriva London South
PVR: 24
Vehicles: Existing hybrid double deck
Contract Start Date: 29th March 2025
Contract End Date: 29th March 2030
New electric vehicles may enter service after the contract start date, dependent on infrastructure and/or vehicle delivery timescales.
The diesel and hybrid vehicles detailed above will meet Euro VI emissions standards.
As this is another short article, here are the highlights of my posts on X (formerly known as Twitter), which include new electric bus orders by First Group and Stagecoach.
#Transport for #London Have Your Say:
— CLondoner92 (@CLondoner92) June 20, 2024
350 bus route in Hayes
We’re proposing to reroute the 350 at Station Road in Hayes to link homes along Nestles Avenue to the bus network.
Consultation closes on 31 July 2024https://t.co/NW8o61qQHG pic.twitter.com/Ftc06FNX3M
Taylor Swift version of the #London Underground Tube Map.#TfL #Transport #trains #travel #TaylorSwift #LDNTaylorsVersion #LondonTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/qBReZQwudf
— CLondoner92 (@CLondoner92) June 21, 2024
Highlights from the agenda reports for #Transport for #London's Programmes and Investment Committee - June 26 2024
— CLondoner92 (@CLondoner92) June 21, 2024
New Routemaster refurbishment
DLR Renewals
Overground renewals
Underground Renewals
and morehttps://t.co/BNeVDQPtNJ pic.twitter.com/XJTAHkLj6j
Stagecoach orders 244 next-generation electric buses with ZEBRA 2 funding in Alexander Dennis’ largest zero-emission order to date
— CLondoner92 (@CLondoner92) June 25, 2024
180 new Enviro400EV
54 Enviro200EV in lengths of 10.9m and 11.7m
10 Enviro100EV, 8.5m in length and a width of 2.35mhttps://t.co/uYnkMDQQ2L pic.twitter.com/6tgrE8r71q
#Transport for #London Freedom of Information release:#LGBTQ Pride Liveries 2024
— CLondoner92 (@CLondoner92) June 28, 2024
London Overground train Class 378
Elizabeth line train Class 345
London Underground Battery Locomotive L51
BYD Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV City bus
IFS Cable Car gondolashttps://t.co/xLAIOChx9l pic.twitter.com/mT4AnoBxd8
Timelapse of the construction of the three-door, two-staircase hybrid New Routemaster bus during the year 2011.
— CLondoner92 (@CLondoner92) July 1, 2024
Video by Transport for London, originally on YouTube. pic.twitter.com/SQGilmcx29
First Bus place landmark Yutong Electric bus order from Pelican Bus and Coach
— CLondoner92 (@CLondoner92) July 1, 2024
Four new depot sites in Taunton, Weston-super-Mare, Basildon and Hengrove will receive these new EV buses and the relevant charging infrastructure.https://t.co/bbtotyXjiY pic.twitter.com/GEXAUbdVNQ
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