Transport minister Norman Baker marked the completion of an upgrade to the bus network in Bristol on Thursday (March 15). The four-year £78.8m Greater Bristol Bus Network (GBBN) project involved the upgrade of 40 routes […]
Stagecoach Group has launched a ticketing scheme in Hampshire to allow passengers to travel by bus and rail on one smartcard. The pilot was launched last Wednesday (March 14) in Basingstoke and is one of […]
Go-Ahead group has acquired FirstGroup’s Northumberland Park bus depot in North-East London. The deal has a gross cash consideration of £14m, with the transaction to be completed on March 30, 2012. The acquisition increases Go-Ahead’s […]
Go-Ahead has achieved a ‘gold’ rating in Business in the Community’s (BITC) 2012 Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI), a voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility. Go-Ahead has participated in the index since it began 10 years ago […]
A VOSA investigation revealed a quarter of all buses run by First Manchester do not run on time First Manchester has been fined £285,000 after North West traffic commissioner Beverley Bell ruled the firm had […]
CBW’s popular industry editor Meera Rambisoon will start a new role as campaigns manager at Greener Journeys in April. Backed by the so-called ‘Big Five’ operators, Greener Journeys is the UK bus and coach industry’s […]
The head of the civil service, Sir Bob Kerslake, has announced the appointment of Philip Rutnam as the new Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport (DfT). Philip, who is currently director general of business […]
Pelican Engineering Group, trading as BMC UK, has been officially launched after a signing ceremony at the BMC factory in Izmir, Turkey last week. BMC UK MD Richard Crump, accompanied by Ken Grindrod, group sales […]
Long-established Grantham coach operator survives after investor steps in and staff persevere A C Williams has been saved after a private investor stepped in to secure the future of the business, in a move which […]
INDIA After its entry into the longdistance inter-city bus segment, Mercedes-Benz announced the launch of its city bus. The 37-seater, low-entry bus is priced starting at nine million Rupees (£113,938). The company launched the intercity […]
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