Free bus travel day aims to get us out of our cars

Deputy Kevin Lewis is working on plans to make bus travel free for one day as a one-off initiative to help reduce traffic on Jersey’s packed roads and help the Transport department meet a States-backed reduction in congestion by 2015.

The move forms part of the department’s sustainable transport policy, which was introduced in 2010. It aims to reduce traffic congestion by 15 per cent by 2015, but according to Transport officers the department is falling well short of the target.