\u00a0 \u00a0 The group\u2019s Go-Ahead London subsidiary has been awarded a 15-year contract worth \u00a3110m to operate Fastrack services between Dartford, Gravesend, Bluewater and Ebbsfleet International, from November 2024. Fastrack consists of three \u2018turn up and go\u2019 routes, currently operated by Arriva.<\/p>\n Backed by ZEBRA funding secured by Kent County Council, Go-Ahead is in talks to deploy a fleet of 28 brand new Irizar ie Trams on the network, powered by inverted electric pantograph technology. Similar vehicles are already used on Go-Ahead London routes in south-east London.<\/p>\n A new major operator is coming to town, they\u2019ve made no secret of the fact that they do see Fastrack as the thin end of the wedge and have plans to develop a network in Kent<\/p>\n At a meeting of Dartford Borough Council\u2019s Joint Transportation Board on Tuesday last week, Shane Hymers, public transport network developer for KCC told members: \u201cInitially they [Go-Ahead London] are going to run it from their Bexleyheath depot for the first year, and then they\u2019re going to build a new depot in Kent on the Fastrack route, and it will be a purpose-built electric depot for Fastrack, so we\u2019re absolutely delighted about that.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cA new major operator is coming to town, they\u2019ve made no secret of the fact that they do see Fastrack as the thin end of the wedge and have plans to develop a network in Kent. I\u2019m sure if gaps do emerge, if they\u2019re commercially viable they will be picked up.\u201d<\/p>\n Hymers told councillors that the Fastrack network in Kent is \u201cfar exceeding pre-Covid forecasts for patronage growth\u201d.<\/p>\n \u00a0 DON\u2019T MISS OUT \u2013 GET YOUR COPY! \u2013\u00a0click here to subscribe!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The post Go-Ahead London to run Kent\u2019s Fastrack<\/a> first appeared on Passenger Transport<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u200b\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Group sees 15-year deal to operate Bus Rapid Transit system as springboard for further expansion into Kent, and plans to build a new all-electric depot \u00a0Go-Ahead is in talks to deploy a fleet of 28 brand new Irizar ie Trams on the network \u00a0 Go-Ahead Group has plans to develop a network in Kent following its capture of the fast-growing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Go-Ahead is in talks to deploy a fleet of 28 brand new Irizar ie Trams on the network<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGo-Ahead Group has plans to develop a network in Kent following its capture of the fast-growing Fastrack Bus Rapid Transit system from Arriva.<\/p>\n
This story appears inside the latest issue of\u00a0Passenger Transport<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n