Passengers
The buses have carried over 1.3 million passengers over 390,000 miles over the duration of the trial.
There has been little difference in overall usage, but a slightly higher level of usage than other similar
routes on the network.
Detailed passenger surveys showed the following:-
• 85 per cent of respondents were aware that ethanolfuelled
buses were used on the Ecolink 30 service.
• Only 18 per cent were aware that each bus saved c.30
tonnes of CO2 each year.
• 41 per cent did know that ethanol could be produced
from Sugar Beet, Sugar Cane or wood by-products.
• 90 per cent support further use of alternatively fuelled
buses and 71 per cent of these justified their support on
environmental grounds alone.
• 23 per cent claimed to take the bus for environmental
reasons.