Making Travel Greener!

Travel West Midlands joined together with several organisations recently to attend the BBC’s Springwatch Festival in Birmingham’s Canon Hill Park - a high profile event that gave nearly 20,000 visitors the opportunity to learn about their global and local environment and what contribution they can make to help the planet and their local community.Stuart Henry, Corporate Affairs Manager for Travel West Midlands said; "This was a key community event for the company. We are focused on developing our corporate and social responsibility programme and underlining our green credentials and socially responsible values. This was a fantastic event and TWM were very much central to the day which allowed us to actively promote greener travel to both existing and future customers within the community. We are aiming to encourage people to make less journeys by car, especially whilst commuting, and therefore deliver huge reductions in Co2 emissions."Travel West Midlands supplied one of their newest vehicles for the Springwatch Festival. A single-deck Wrights Urban Eclipse bus which operates from TWM’s Acocks Green depot on the Birmingham to Solihull 37 service.The company provided a range of promotional goods for the families who attended the event, including balloons, timetables and TWM’s new leaflet ’The Bus Matters - A greener solution to simpler travel’ which highlights TWM’s commitment to reducing the carbon footprint of all residents within the West Midlands.Since 1995, Travel West Midlands have purchased over 1,300 buses at a cost of £185m. By 2010, TWM’s entire fleet will have been replaced with low-floor, easy-access buses - six years ahead of the Government’s statutory requirements.Download ’The Bus Matters - A greener solution to simpler travel’

Published 19th June 2007