Community of Madrid introduces fleet of 15 new natural gas buses

Through the Regional Transport Consortium, the 15 intercity vehicles, manufactured by Scania, will serve the municipalities of Leganés, Madrid and Fuenlabrada. All of them are powered by CNG, a firm commitment of the Community of Madrid to preserve the environment with the use of clean energy. This was explained by the Minister of Transport, Housing and Infrastructure of the Community, Pedro Rollán, who attended the launching event in Leganés.

The Regional Transport Consortium’s intercity buses provide 20,000 daily services, transporting more than 800,000 passengers a day. Of the 1,832 intercity buses serving in the region, 71.40% are non-polluting (Euro V, Euro VI, CNG and Hybrid).

The regional government made a major commitment to support measures aimed at improving the environment, by promoting the use of these alternative energies in public transport, which play a key role in improving air quality. This measure is contained in the electoral program of President Cristina Cifuentes, whose paragraph 252 includes a Plan based on an Air Quality Strategy and the fight against climate change.

Thanks to the constant renewal of the Regional Transport Consortium’s fleets with more modern and less polluting vehicles, the Community of Madrid complies fully with the goal of avoiding the emission of 4.5 million tons of CO2 a year that was set for 2012. In fact, according to its Emissions Inventory, they have managed to avoid emitting 10.8 million tons of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere in recent years.

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