Bus News

Wrightbus has confirmed that a Kinetic Recovery System (KERS) project, developed in a collaborative partnership and partially funded by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, is in full service trials with Arriva.

Arriva UK Bus has announced an investment programme worth in excess of £45m in 232 vehicles to upgrade its fleet over the next 12 months.

Order includes 56 Plaxton Elites for Megabus and 15 TfL-spec Enviro400s Stagecoach Group has announced an investment of more than £80m in new buses and coaches for services in the UK and mainland Europe.

Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire’s X8 service which launched in September last year has already ferried over 130,000 passengers between Liverpool and Chester’s major leisure and shopping hubs.

Nexus asks for more time to prepare a response, delaying the decision until the end of October The Quality Contract Scheme (QCS) board has confirmed that oral evidence sessions into the proposed scheme will now […]

Family-owned Cogent Passenger Seating is celebrating with bus users from across South Wales thanks to an order placed by First Cymru to upgrade and makeover 90 vehicles in its fleet.

The Oxfordshire Bus Enthusiasts Society (OBES) says it has realised the huge gap left behind in the bus rally calendar by the demise of the popular King Alfred Running Day held in Winchester each year. […]

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has started work on a package of changes to bus routes across Manchester city centre.

Arriva Southern Counties’ latest investment in Tunbridge Wells’ bus network saw the launch of six new 8.8m wheel-forward Wrightbus StreetLite Micro Hybrid buses to upgrade the Royal Tunbridge Wells Town Centre Bus Link that runs […]

What has been called the world’s first ‘rainbow bus’ in passenger service launched on March 2 in London, as Transport for London (TfL) and Stagecoach London teamed up to celebrate and support diversity in the […]