Limerick has become the first city in Ireland to roll out an all electric bus fleet, aiming to improve air quality and reduce noise pollution. The buses have been quietly introduced over the past few weeks, with drivers trained last December. The city has invested €3 million to retrofit the depot to accommodate these electric buses.
Limerick has become the first city in Ireland to roll out an all electric bus fleet .and now the Treaty City has followed suit., Labour Councillor Conor Sheehan said it was an “absolutely fantastic” innovation for Limerick .“Bus Éireann have been quietly rolling these buses out over the last couple of weeks and training drivers last December,” he said.
“There was €3 million put into the depot on Roxborough Road on the outskirts of the city to retrofit the depot to be able to cope with these buses that are electric.”“I couldn’t believe how quiet and how fast the bus was,” he said. “I think this will be fantastic as well from the point of view of cleaning up the air quality in Limerick because we actually have very high levels of nitrogen dioxide when the weather is bad.
“We actually have the highest rate of asthma in the country, which means the air quality in Limerick is really, really poor.
Cllr Sheehan said he has raised this “continually” with the NTA and officials have since committed to a pilot in the certain areas not covered by BusConnects.
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