Two Bournville Schools introduce the Green Bus to conserve energy

• Mar. 19 by Aneesa Malik (0)

Dame Elizabeth Cadbury Technology College and Bournville School and Sixth Form Centre have joined forces with Centro to introduce an environmentally friendly school bus for their students to travel safely on.

The idea of the Green Bus is to help with congestion on the roads, working parents who don’t have time to drop their children off to school and of course to reduce CO2 emissions.

The new state of the art services has a specially designed route, which drops each child off a short walking distance from their home.

Each bus service even has its own tracking device, which can be accessed on the Green Bus interactive website.

The managing director of the Green Bus, Ian Mack stated:

‘The Green Bus removes huge numbers of unnecessary car journeys from the roads in the West Midlands every day.’

The four services that have travelled the roads so far have been extremely successful, carrying around 300 pupil’s everyday and minimising their carbon footprint in the midst of it all.

The head teacher of Dame Elizabeth Cadbury Technology College Lynn Barnett stated:

‘We do hope that other schools in an around Birmingham will also introduce this service for their pupils. It’s a positive thing for the environment and for the kids themselves. But it is really up to Centro.’

Centro, have set up a number of schemes including the Park and Ride, which reduces 2.75 million journeys off the region’s gridlocked roads and decreases carbon dioxide emissions by 6,200 tonnes each year.

There are now over 6,400 free Park and Ride car parking spaces in the West Midlands as a whole. These spaces are calculated to take over 53,000 journeys off the road per week, saving 66,000 litres of fuel.