Is your school taking part in Walk to School Week? Primary schools across the city are joining in with Walk to School Week from Monday 16 October to Friday 20 October to encourage even more children to walk, cycle or…
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York is set to boast the country’s first fully electric Park & Ride fleet after securing funding for 24 brand new emission-free buses. The council has been awarded £3.3 million funding from the Department for Transport’s ‘Low Emission Bus Scheme’…
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A landmark moment has been celebrated in York as it has become the first UK city outside London to trial a new fully electric double decker bus. Representatives from City of York Council, First York and local bus manufacturer, Optare…
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Cllr Andrew Waller, Executive Member for Environment, has approved the revocation of the Salisbury Terrace Air Quality Management Area (AQMA). Annual mean concentrations of nitrogen dioxide in this area have been well below health based objective levels for the last…
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Our 2017 Annual Status Report has just been submitted to DEFRA for review. It can be downloaded from the reports page. Recent air pollution monitoring data for York (2016) indicates that the annual average air quality objective for NO2 is…
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