A petition to wind-up Leicester-based Thurmaston Bus was due to heard at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Wednesday (August 24). As a result, Leicestershire County Council (LCC) released five emergency contract tenders […]
Stagecoach is tripling Sunday services on the recently opened guided busway between Cambridge and St Ives. The move follows the 55,895 passenger trips on the route’s first week, as reported in CBW999. A new timetable […]
Buses linking Oxford and Banbury are to become the latest to be upgraded to join Stagecoach’s network of high-quality county routes. The changes will start to come into effect on Sunday (September 4) when new […]
FirstGroup is to allow bikes to be carried on buses for the first time in Scottish cities as an experiment. According to The Scotsman, the trial will take place this autumn, with bikes filling the […]
A First Bristol driver who suffered from sleep apnoea has denied driving dangerously but admitted careless driving in relation to a crash after falling asleep at the wheel in June 2009. The breathing condition disturbs […]
Drivers from First in Manchester have donated over £10,000 to a Bury hospice campaign. The donation from the company’s charity committee was handed over after operations worker Derek Sorah suggested to the Building a New […]
Arriva driver and former Bus Idol winner John Callaghan from Wakefield took his last journey on Thursday August 25 after a career spanning over 40 years. He has completed the 217 Overton to Leeds route […]
Northumbria Buses is celebrating 25 years since the former company took over routes previously operated by United Buses North of Tyne. The company, which has since become Arriva following industry deregulation and privatisation, is to […]
An eight-wheeled electric bus was test driven at the University of Tokyo this month, where it made two round trips between the Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Station and the nearest railway station, which is located […]
Foton Motors of China has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of south-west Pakistan’s Sindh province for the provision and operation of 2,000 CNG buses. The Foton buses are designed in the […]
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