They will serve the Florence-Pontassieve and Sansepolcro routes.
Seven new extra-urban buses enter service in the provinces of Florence and Arezzo. These are 9 meter vehicles, already ready and set up, which will be put on the road in the next few hours, which will partly serve the Pontassieve area and its hamlets and the Sansepolcro area.
The new vehicles, financed with regional funds deriving from the DM81 loan, and which integrate the complex renovation operation that Autolinee Toscane is carrying out, were presented this morning, in the Montelungo Hub in Florence, where hundreds of routes that connect the capital to the hinterland. Present were the President of Autolinee Toscane, Gianni Bechelli, the transport councilor of the Tuscany Region, Stefano Baccelli, the Mayor of Pontassieve, Carlo Boni and the municipal councilor of Sansepolcro Giuliano del Pia.
These are 9.2 meter Otokar Vectio UH, equipped with a latest generation Euro VI petrol engine. They can carry up to 42 passengers (7 standing and 35 seated) and, given its not particularly bulky dimensions, it is adequate and suitable for many extra-urban routes, where the roads are not very wide. Furthermore, thanks to the double central door, the lowered floor and the manual platform, it has very easy access for people in wheelchairs.
Furthermore, they are all equipped with the AVM system, which allows it to be connected to GPS and give real time information. Added to this is the closed cabin for the driver, the presence of the video surveillance system with cameras, the passenger counter, and validator and validator, including the Tip Tap one, which allows you to pay the ticket on board, with the credit card, without surcharge.
Since November 2021, the start of management of Autolinee Toscane, over 400 buses have been purchased and put into service. Between now and the end of the year, another 300 will arrive throughout Tuscany for a total of almost 700 in the space of 3 years, so as to replace the older, more polluting and less performing vehicles.
The new vehicles, like all extra-urban ones in Tuscany, are blue in color and display the “at” logo. Having arrived at the company headquarters in Viale dei Cadorna, Florence, they will take up service in the next few days.
