SINGAPORE: Buses with rooftop gardens will begin plying Singapore's roads, as part of an initiative to study possible energy and cost savings for bus operators.
Touted as Asia’s first green-roofed bus initiative, the buses are outfitted with a soilless roof system - instead of conventional soil, the plants are secured on a lightweight mat used for skyrise greenery, said GWS Living Art, Moove Media, National Parks Board , Singapore Green Building Council and Temasek Foundation in a joint press release.
Mr Oh Cheow Sheng, group director of NParks said: “This is a creative initiative that seeks to extend Singapore’s greening efforts, and which truly encapsulates the vision of a biophilic City in a Garden. We hope that this will spur others to explore other similarly innovative ways to green up Singapore."
Whose silly KPI is this A bus is already not an aerodynamically efficient vehicle and by planting something on it is going to make it worse. Please go do something about gardens on HDB carparks instead - some don’t even look like a garden.
Good to collect dust and bird nest...
Is this necessary? Expect increase in fares because of incremental cost!