Winchester City Council and Stagecoach are evaluating Volvo’s latest zero-emission bus offering on the city’s park & ride service Volvo’s MCV-bodied BZL electric demonstrator is being trialled by Winchester City Council in partnership with Stagecoach […]
NETHERLANDS Ebusco has signed a contract with operator Qbuzz for the delivery of up to 63 buses, including up to 45 Ebusco 3.0 12-metre and 18 Ebusco 3.0 18-metre buses. Qbuzz will deploy the buses […]
BELGIUM Van Hool is supplying a TDX27 Astromega double-deck coach to M.G. Cars in Ittre which, in a first for Belgium, features one hundred seats, including 98 passengers plus guide and driver. The vehicle has […]
FRANCE The southern French city of Montpellier is set to follow in the footsteps of Dunkirk, Luxembourg and Tallinn by making its public transport free to use. The scheme will begin on 23 December this […]
SWITZERLAND Family-owned Furrer+Frey, which provides development, design, planning, construction and maintenance of overhead contact line systems for public transport, including trams and trolleybuses, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The company, which also develops and builds […]
The Houses of Parliament was the location of a reception earlier this month to launch the second report by the CPT and the Zero Emission Coach Taskforce. Martin Curtis reports on the progress so far […]
Jonathan Welch attended the recent launch of First Leicester’s new fleet of zero-emission buses It’s been a busy couple of weeks for green bus events in Leicester, with Centrebus previewing its new Hop!-branded midibuses, and […]
Jonathan Welch finds out about a new training aid designed to improve driver confidence and service reliability Driver recruitment, training and retention are all topics which are at the forefront of industry minds just now, […]
John Geddes suggests that DRT is not the solution to financial, social or economic pressures when it comes to replacing rural fixed bus services There’s not much debate about the fundamental problem. The number of […]
Preserved pre-war buses are uncommon, six-wheel buses are rare and Karrier buses are rarer still, so a pre-war six-wheeled Karrier bus is quite something. Geoff Lumb, a well-known Huddersfield enthusiast, has been painstakingly restoring Ashton-under-Lyne […]
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