Despite the offer of a financial package of £8.3m, on Friday, June 22, two-thirds of bus services in London failed to run, provoking a furious reaction from Boris Johnson and many Londoners. Unite said support […]
FirstGroup Scottish award success FirstGroup picked up three awards at the Scottish Transport Awards on June 14 in Glasgow. ScotRail took two awards including the much coveted, ‘Public Transport Operator of the Year’. In addition […]
Previous partnership offer from operators rejected due to no inclusion of integrated ticketing system West Yorkshire’s Integrated Transport Authority (ITA) members are being asked to support the introduction of England’s first Quality Contract framework for […]
ADL buys Australia’s Custom Coaches bus manufacturing business, one of the biggest and longest-established bus bodying businesses on in the country, with a 24% share of the market. Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL), which recently signed […]
Less than a month after buses started running on the new Eclipse Bus Rapid Transit network in Gosport and Fareham, ticket machine data has shown more than 100,000 people have travelled on the new routes. […]
Greater Manchester is set for its first park-and-ride bus scheme – which will be funded commercially by Stagecoach. Sir Brian Souter originally presented the scheme in 2005 at a meeting attended by a range of […]
South West Coaches is adopting a state-of-the-art fleet management system after looking to reduce fuel costs and improve driver efficiency. The operator is using TomTom Business Solutions’ tracking and Remote LINK Working Time system to […]
Excelsior Coaches MD Kathy Tilbury to star in a BBC documentary Kathy Tilbury, MD of award-winning Bournemouth-based coach operator Excelsior Coaches, will appear in a BBC documentary this autumn titled ‘Women at the top’. The […]
IRAQ A common sight before the 2003 invasion, Baghdad’s red double-deckers had all but disappeared, most either stolen or fallen into disrepair as Iraq struggled with the ensuing violence. More than 300 old buses have […]
SWITZERLAND PostAuto Schweiz AG has become the first operator in Switzerland to deploy fuelcell hybrid technology for public transport. Since the end of 2011, five Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid models have been serving on routes […]
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