After reports of activity, a picture taken by the Guernsey Press confirmed that the main door on at least one of two electric buses, believed to be one of the new additions to the fleet, had been left open to the elements for at least a couple of days.
‘It’s disappointing that some people have been entering into a private site on Pitronnerie Road, used to store vehicles and this has been reported to the police,’ said Laura Oxburgh, head of on-island travel and transport implementation at the States.
‘Stagecoach is attending the site twice a day to check the vehicles, but we’ll ask them to attend more frequently if there are further concerns and we will be taking other steps to prevent this from happening again.’
In a comment on Facebook, Environment & Infrastructure president Adrian Gabriel said that enforcement and upgraded security on the site were being implemented and moving the vehicles to another site was also being considered.
The two new electric buses, costing £350,000 each and paid for by the States, have recently arrived in the island to join two currently operating electric buses.
One of the new buses had a problem coming off the ferry. It is understood that it had a function left on during its journey to the island, which had drained the battery by the time it was ready to be driven off the ferry. It was resolved and the vehicle collected from the port.
Stagecoach was approached for comment on all of the incidents.
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