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Coastal Coaches - First low floor fleet of buses

Press release dated: Friday 8 April 2005
East Sussex County Council, County Hall, St Anne's Crescent, Lewes, BN7 1SF.

Travelling around the Rye and Hastings areas has been made easier thanks to a fleet of 10 low floor buses.
Operated by Coastal Coaches for the county council, the fleet is the first of its type in the county and allows easy access for wheelchairs, older people and people with pushchairs.
The new buses started to be introduced in October 2002 and the last of the 10 to complete the fleet will begin service on Monday, April 18th 2005.
The gradual introduction of the new buses has coincided with an increase of up to 15 per cent in passenger numbers on the routes which include:
347 Pett-Hastings Conquest Hospital
344 Hastings-Fairlight-Winchelsea-Rye-Peasmarsh-Northiam
325 Rye town
312 Broad Oak-Rye-Tenterden
300/340/341 Hastings-Westfield-Rye-Northiam-Tenterden
The buses are easily recognisable by their lime green, light blue and white livery.

Notes to editors: Coastal Coaches contracts with the county council are worth more than three quarters of a million pounds and are partly funded by the rural bus subsidy grants.
The buses are Alexander Dennis Dart SLF, with Cummings Euro 3 engines.

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