Decision details

Welsh Government has awarded the council a grant of £8m towards the provision of additional electric buses operating mainly within the council’s boundary. The report will set out the mechanism and criteria for awarding this grant to eligible bus operators.

RESOLVED: that

1.              It be noted that the Welsh Government has allocated £8m of grant funding to support the transition to electric bus on the Cardiff Network.

2.              Authority be delegated to the Director of Planning, Transport and Environment, subject to consultation with the Cabinet Member for Transport & Strategic Planning, s.151 Officer and Director Governance and Legal Services, to prepare the scope and method of allocating Welsh Government grant funding to increase the use of electric buses serving Cardiff and to determine, approve and implement the Cardiff Electric Bus Scheme.