£10,500 fine and £10,000 costs after bus drops on mechanic The Original London Sightseeing Tour has been fined on grounds of health and safety, after a mechanical engineer suffered serious injuries while working underneath one […]
Municipally-owned operator Network Warrington has launched its new range of smartcards called Touch&Go! The new plastic cards have an in-built chip, meaning that on boarding the bus, customers just touch the target on the ticket […]
SWEDEN Volvo Buses is supplying 25 hybrid buses for Göteborgs Spårvägar (Gothenburg Tramways), bringing the number of hybrid buses Volvo has sold to Nordic countries to 100. They are expected the enter service in the […]
FirstGroup has confirmed Wright Gemini double deckers are to replace its ftr operation in York in Easter – the Bus Rapid Transit vehicles are to be refurbished and redeployed elsewhere in First’s northern region. ftrs […]
TSC to investiagte Competition Commission’s report into bus industry The Transport Select Committee (TSC) is to undertake an inquiry into the Competition Commission’s (CC) report on the local bus services market.
Public pressure has been mounting in the wake of last week’s sudden cut in Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) and Local Transport Services Grant (LTSG) by Welsh Government Minister Carl Sargeant. Key sections of the […]
Council to seek permission from government to pilot charging concessionary pass-holding passengers 50p flat rate Cornwall Council has backed plans to allocate £2.4m to rural bus routes under threat alongside proposals to get permission from […]
Arriva Southern Counties (ASC) has introduced five new Wright StreetLites onto its route 116, which are being branded as X-BUS 116. Based at Gillingham depot, the new buses are the first Door Forward Wrightbus StreetLites […]
YMBN announces Olympic Park tour this month and March conference The Young Bus Managers Network (YBMN) has announced technology as the theme of its spring conference in March as well as a free tour of […]
The National Final of the UK Bus Driver of the Year (BDoY) competition will take place in Blackpool on Sunday, September 9, and entries are now being invited from operators which have regularly supported the […]
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