FTR (bus)

FTR
A First York FTR bus in York on route 4
ParentFirstGroup
Founded2006
HeadquartersAberdeen, Scotland
Service area
Service typeBus rapid transit
Fuel typeDiesel
OperatorFirst Cymru
First Northampton
First West Yorkshire
First York

FTR was a British rapid-transit bus system formerly operated in Leeds, Luton, Swansea and York. FirstGroup introduced the system, using 39 Wright StreetCar articulated buses in conjunction with infrastructure upgrades by local authorities. The vehicles were branded as "the future of travel", the operators claiming that ftr is Abjadic textspeak for the word future.[1]