18 new sustainable bus shelters to be installed along Whitmore Way in Basildon
Essex County Council is working with Bauer Media Outdoor as part of their Greener Route Initiative
Last updated 16th Oct 2025
18 new bus shelters are being put along Whitmore Way in Basildon, a key route to reach the town centre.
The sustainable shelters are from Bauer Media Outdoor, and will be the first in the UK to be installed.
They say that 70% less carbon emissions will be produced, compared to a typical shelter.
The shelter features a QR code that notifies passengers of upcoming busses, alongside a digital screen and physical timetable.
They have been rolled out alongside new electric busses which serve the routes along Whitmore Way.
Tom Cunningham - Cabinet Member for Highways, Infrastructure and Sustainable Transport at Essex County Council said:
"This is a fantastic new bus shelter, one of 18 being rolled out in the Basildon area. The brilliant thing is, not only the sustainable credentials of it, the innovative design, it's future-proof, helping and encouraging more people to use sustainable transport and the busses.
"It is hugely important, we have got 5000 miles of roads that Essex County Council look after and we have far too many cars on those roads, and the roads are suffering as a result.
"We need to encourage more people off the road and onto public transport. It's a long hard piece of work to try and make that big change, but I think things like this, other investments, it's a battle we are slowly winning."
Will Ramage, Managing Director at Bauer Media Outdoor said:
"We are at the dawn, hopefully, of all shelters going forwards being better for the environment, more sustainable and making the passenger experience better.
"What's really different is making a shelter that has accessibility, will last 25 years, has a proper environmentally sustainable supply chain, and there are some skills in manufacturing that don't exist in the country anymore and we have had to re-develop those and work with partners to be able to produce these.
"We are here and we are very excited about pushing on."
Neil Chapman, European Product Design Director at Bauer Media Outdoor said:
"The shelter is around 70% less carbon than a traditional metal shelter, we've done that by predominantly changing the materials. We use Douglas Fir from Scotland and we use low carbon concrete, also low carbon glass.
"The passenger experience has been at the heart of the design.
"Everybody knows there is a climate challenge.
"We want to lower our carbon footprint, our parties want to lower their carbon footprint, many councils have declared a climate emergency."