The Police have issued the following statement,
“We have recently had a number of thefts where tools (drills) and garden equipment (chainsaws, hedge cutters) have been taken.
The most recent theft was on Tudor Road in Acomb overnight on the 24th August.
If you have any information that could help please contact and quote incident number 12170151384.
Please ensure that all your valuable items are securely stored and keep out of sight”.
Hard on the heels of last week’s announcement that York’s first battery powered double decker bus had been brought into service, today the government has announced funding for a further 24 vehicles.
The government says “it is determined to clean up air in towns and cities across the country, and today’s investment in green buses comes after our air quality plan was published last month”.
The investment will mean that the whole of York’s Park and Ride fleet will eventually be converted to electric operation.
18 new double deckers and six new larger single deckers will join the 11 existing electric buses next year
Department of Transport announcement today
The deal is thought to involve the bus operator (First) paying for 50% of the costs of the new fleet. In essence, the deal gets over the difficulty that the Council experienced in getting tenders for a clean Park and Ride fleet when it sought to let a new contract last year.
The potential tenderers quoted the whole life costs of electric vehicles as being unaffordable.
It is likely to be around 2 years before all the buses are actually operating in the City.
York’s first battery powered buses were introduced in 1915 when Liberal Herbert Asquith was Prime Minister (!).
