Quadrupled growth justified bigger Blaenavon buses

摘要

Stagecoach South Wales says its recent £1.5million investment in 14 Alexander Dennis Enviro300 single-deckers was justified by a more than fourfold growth in passenger numbers on one key route. The X24 (Blaenavon-Newport via Pontypool and Cwmbran) carried just over 300,000 passengers a year when John Could became the operator's managing director in 2001. The same service now carries more than 1,4million passengers a year, hence the eight additional seats in the Enviro300s, which have displaced four-year-old Pointer Darts from Cwmbran depot to Caerphilly and Brynmawr.