COLCHESTER town centre’s poor air quality should improve after nearly £200,000 of funding was secured to install emissions reducing technology in ten buses.
Much of the town centre, including the High Street, Queen Street and Head Street, has been designated an air quality management area since 2012 because vehicles stuck in congestion pump out too much nitrogen dioxide.
Now, the Department for Transport has awarded Colchester Council and First Essex buses £194,000 to fit catalytic reduction techology to ten buses, which reduce vehicle emissions by more than 80 per cent.
See Tuesday's Gazette for more
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