Missing the Bus!

In 2020, the allegedly bus-obsessed UK PM pledged there would be 4000 new zero emissions, British-built buses on the country's roads by 2024 (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/26/boris-johnson-promise-build-4000-zero-emission-buses-green-transport-revolution). The eco-buses were intended to be an illustration of the PM's 'green credentials'. The Covid19 pandemic will have 'derailed' this pledge but only £32m of the required £4bn cost has been allocated thus far by the Treasury. The bus manufacturers also report that they have received no orders. Although developing emissions-free buses would be a sensible move to counter climate change/ air pollution, government funding is leading to massive reductions in UK bus transport. It looks as if a new organisation, Pledge Watch' should be urgently created. Pledges and actions seem to be somewhat divorced from eachother.