[sustran] Re: UK Bus and Coach Operators Announce Plan to Take One Billion Car Journeys Off the Road

[Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory]

Woah, there... how do the railways figure into this?

(I see that it is over two months old...)

There are redundant coach-rail routes and/but the participating 
operators also operates rail services, right?

- T

Vinay Baindur wrote:
> http://blog.taragana.com/pr/bus-and-coach-operators-announce-plan-to-take-one-billion-car-journeys-off-the-road-5998/
>
>
>
> *Bus and Coach Operators Announce Plan to Take One Billion Car Journeys Off
> the Road*
>
> Prne
> September 14th, 2009
>
> LONDON -
>
> News Conference Venue: One Birdcage Walk, 1 Birdcage Walk, Westminster,
> London SW1H 9JJ Date: Tuesday 15 September Time: 10.00am. Coffee and
> refreshments from 09:30
>
> Britain’s biggest bus and coach operators have joined forces to respond to
> the challenge of climate change by developing an action plan aimed at taking
> one billion car journeys off UK roads.
>
> The Greener Journeys campaign is recommending a raft of policy initiatives
> to encourage modal shift that would deliver 50% more savings in transport
> CO2 emissions than currently planned under existing Government policies.
>
> Details of the plan will be announced by senior representatives from the
> UK’s major public transport groups, including Sir Moir Lockhead (CEO, First
> Group) and Brian Souter (CEO, Stagecoach Group), as well as transport expert
> Professor David Begg.
>
> Greener Journeys will launch the One Billion Challenge, demonstrating that
> switching from car to bus or coach for just one journey in 25 would mean one
> billion fewer car journeys on our roads over the next three years.
>
> In an unprecedented joint call for action, bus and coach operators will
> stress that technological advances alone are not enough to achieve the
> carbon reductions required to tackle climate change and modal shift must be
> a key priority.
>
> Greener Journeys, whose objectives are being backed by influential figures
> such as Sir Rod Eddington and Jonathon Porritt, will be lobbying Government
> and other stakeholders to support the plan.
>
> A full news release will be issued at the press launch (15 September 2009)
>
> Notes to editors
>
> 1. Greener Journeys is an initiative of the UK Bus & Coach industry aimed at
> reducing CO2 emissions from transport by delivering unprecedented modal
> shift from the car. It is funded by the big 5 bus owning groups Arriva,
> First Group, Go-Ahead, National Express and Stagecoach.
>
> 2. Greener Journeys aims to take one billion car journeys off the road in
> just three years. This would amount to a reduction of 2 million tonnes of
> CO2 and would deliver an additional 50% reduction in CO2 from domestic
> transport to the reductions planned over the same period by current
> Government policies (Low Carbon Transport: A Greener Future, Department for
> Transport, July 2009).
>
> 3. Greener Journeys has been developed with the support of the Confederation
> of Passenger Transport UK and Forum for the Future, and is endorsed by The
> Prince’s May Day Network, Business in the Community.
>
> Source: Greener Journeys
>
> Contact: For further information contact Claire Haigh, +44-207-257-2520
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