Buses
Challenging perceptions
Angela Youngman investigates how Go-Ahead is working with Transport for London to attract more women to a career spent behind the wheel of one of the capital’s famed red buses Despite forming 50% of the […]
Year: 2020
Coach News
John Leask & Son to close
Shetland operator John Leask & Son of Lerwick has announced that it will cease trading at the end of the summer season. Managing Director Peter Leask, grandson of founder John Leask, said that the decision […]
Coach News
Major coach and bus industry events cancelled
BDoY and the UK Coach Awards are among many events and shows cancelled following Government announcements about mass gatherings The National Final of the UK Bus Driver of the Year (BDoY) competition which was due […]
Last Stop
Bus drivers marry after meeting at First York
First York bus drivers who met through ‘sheer luck’ travelled to their wedding in style on Saturday 29 February. Roy Hunt and Maria Hardy became VIP passengers on a special bus chauffeured by Marc Bichtemann, […]
Last Stop
Essex school pupils witness unveiling of library bus
School pupils from Buttsbury Infant School in Billericay, Essex have celebrated the arrival of a new library bus. The vehicle, which is now parked just outside the school grounds, has been designed to provide the […]
News
Bus operators warn that tens of thousands of jobs could go within weeks unless Government agrees immediate rescue package
Ministers are being urged to get behind the industry now or risk the decimation of a national bus network that is getting critical sector employees to work during the current crisis and is central to […]
Coach News
CPT reacts to school closures
Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) Chief Executive Graham Vidler has issued a statement reacting to the Government’s decision to close schools across the UK as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. “This is an understandable […]
Bus News
Coach and bus industry reacts as COVID-19 crisis deepens
Coach and bus operators across the UK are currently addressing the COVID-19 pandemic situation after Boris Johnson released further advice and voluntary travel restrictions on all non-essential travel. Many operators have acted immediately by cancelling […]
News
Government announces emergency measures in 2020 Budget
Loans to help businesses through the economic turmoil caused by the coronavirus outbreak and relaxed rules on statutory sick pay are amongst the steps taken The Government announced a number of emergency measures in the […]
Bus News
Welsh ‘Buses Bill’ will put passengers first, says Minister
Speaking ahead of the publication of the Bus Services (Wales) Bill on Monday 16 March, Economy, Transport and North Wales Minister Ken Skates said deregulation of bus services in the 1980s had been an ‘abject […]
