ITV reports that Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says that the New Routemaster hybrid double-deckers designed specially for the city could be reaching ‘the end of the road’ as part of his new mission to clean-up the capital’s air quality. After his re-election, Sadiq pledged to make the city’s bus fleet fully zero-emission by 2030, which ITV says could mean the end for the bespoke buses, which have been in service for around 15 years and cost over £350m.
“By 2030, all the buses in London will be zero-emission,” the Mayor said. “Some may need to be retro-fitted but I think all will be new buses by 2030. It means any bus that is not zero-emission will be off our streets by 2030.
Designed by Thomas Heatherwick, the first batch of the buses arrived in London in 2012, with 1,000 eventually being produced.
