I caught an interesting little story at the tail end of the news last night. The BBC reporter, Tom Edwards, had travelled to Ballymena, County Antrim, in order to view London's latest reincarnation of the venerable Routemaster bus.
The managing director of Wrightbus, Mark Nodder, told Edwards that, without the £7.8 million investment, the radical approaches to design and technology wouldn't have happened.
The project itself is just half complete with the actual unveiling at the end of the year in London. The first bus will be tested in Spring 2011 with the first five prototypes hitting the streets of the capital by Spring 2012. It will be a hybrid bus with low emissions, good fuel consumption and it has brakes that recharge the battery.
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