The 2012 UK Bus Awards (UKBA) was launched last week at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport’s (CILT) inaugural Bus and Coach Forum Lecture, along with news that this years competition will feature new […]
Around 50 of the country’s top young bus managers attended the Young Bus Manager’s Network (YBMN) conference at the Lansdowne Place Hotel in Hove last week. The programme included presentations from Arriva Bus UK MD […]
Arriva plans to introduce 98 new low-carbon buses worth £26.7m to its UK fleet comprising 77 Volvo Hybrids and 21 MAN EcoCity CNG buses which will run on biomethane. This investment represents the UK’s largest […]
Epsom Coaches Group has given preferred bidder status to Optare for the supply of seven new buses for operation of Transport for London route 470, between Epsom and Colliers Wood. The firm’s Quality Line bus […]
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 […]
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 […]
The £2.8m sale, if approved, will include Barnstaple battleground and take place this summer FirstGroup has signed an agreement with Stagecoach to sell off its North Devon operations, pending approval from the Office of Fair […]
£11m limit enforced on concessionary fares as council funding gap expected to rise to £4m Norfolk County Council (NCC) and local bus operators have agreed to cap the annual reimbursement for concessionary bus fares to […]
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