The multi-million pound scheme could help ease chronic congestion in the city by taking buses off key roads.

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"I think in parts of the country, taking high-speed trains will be like taking buses in the future, " she said.

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Connex, which has run the bus service in Jersey for 10 years, will be taking its fleet of buses with it.

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Each morning, shuttle buses circulate, taking students at their leisure from the main Broadmoor hotels, East and West, up to the Cheyenne Lodge, a standalone retreat facility that I described yesterday, which is home to BBQ University.

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Yellow buses from the United States are already taking children to school in Staffordshire.

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The local authority's fleet of 15 yellow buses had been a "roaring success" in cutting congestion and taking children to school safely.

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To that end, the company spearheaded projects such as the Connected Bus project in San Francisco, which involved taking the disparate tracking units the city had been using to keep tabs on buses, railcars and other transit fleet vehicles, and integrating them into one system that enables more reliable operations and maintenance as well as lower emissions.

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An awful lot of folks out there are taking their local money and the state money, and they're buying new buses or clean technology, because we're focusing on it.

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