Southern Vectis Announces Earth Day Discount Initiative

Sunday, 21 April 2024 06:00

By Dominic Kureen @WriteOnDom

Southern Vectis is marking Earth Day - Monday 22 April - by offering discounted travel to people living on and visiting the Island.

Bus passengers can already take advantage of the single journey fare cap - part of the Government’s Help for Households initiative - with tickets costing no more than £2.

Now the bus operator is offering anyone using its app, a 24-hour Rover ticket at less than half price.

“This means adults can enjoy unlimited travel on all our services for the whole of Earth Day for £4,” said Southern Vectis head of communications, Nikki Honer.

“We hope this will encourage them to leave their cars at home for the day and catch the bus instead.

“Southern Vectis is committed to helping improve the quality of air we breathe here, and we have been working on this in a number of ways.

“One of these is to invest in new buses here - as well as working with Isle of Wight Council on a successful bid for funding which will see 22 new electric buses arrive here in 2026."

Regarding the Earth Day initiative, Nikki added:

“We hope our Earth Day offer encourages more people to take the bus.

"If we can convert some car users, even for a few journeys, it could make a huge difference to the local environment in the long term, as well as helping ease the Island’s congestion issues.”

Anyone keen to give up their car for the day and take advantage of discounted all-day bus travel on Earth Day, can download the operator’s app and use the code EARTH24 to buy their ticket.

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