Bus News
Ebusco secures order for 60
Dutch company, which has its vehicles built in China, secures major part of orders from Qbuzz for 159 electric buses Dutch supplier Ebusco is to supply 60 of the 159 electric buses ordered by Qbuzz […]
Coach News
Volvo 9900 secures Red Dot design award
Volvo’s newly-released 9900 coach has been awarded a Red Dot Product Design Award. Launched last year, the Swedish manufacturer says the vehicle’s design language has “both a professional expression and operational functionality, designed to provide […]
Bus News
DfT allocates funding for transport app
On the 26 March, Buses Minister Nusrat Ghani announced the allocation of £4m for a platform which will provide passengers with location information about bus services. This will enable passengers to have more knowledge about […]
Coach News
FlixBus US expansion
FlixBus has launched its southern US network with routes connecting Baton Rouge, La., Biloxi, Miss., Houston, New Orleans and San Antonio. Tickets went on sale as of 6 March and coaches started operating on 14 […]
Bus News
Accessible Transport Group ‘saved’ by council funding
Accessible Transport Group (ATG), provider of Ring and Ride and igo bus services in the West Midlands, has been saved by council funding after entering administration, the BBC has reported. Although services were set to […]
Bus News
York set for 21-strong Optare Metrodecker electric fleet
The city of York will soon be home to one of the biggest electric double-decker fleets outside of London, thanks to investment from First York and funding from the City Council and Office for Low […]
Big Picture
Big Picture: 1386
John Sinclair enjoyed James Day’s article on East Yorkshire’s new livery, introduced following a takeover by Go-Ahead last year (CBW1384). By contrast, this week’s Big Picture is one of John’s taken in Beverley in 1964 […]
Buses
Along for the ride
History was made recently, when Stagecoach unveiled the UK’s first autonomous bus to enter trials. Peter Jackson was there Stagecoach Manchester’s Sharston depot has seen hundreds of buses pass through its gates since it was […]
Buses
Committed to Gas
Nottingham City Transport Engineering Director Gary Mason talks to Andy Izatt about how a fleet of gas-fuelled double-deckers will help the operator achieve Euro VI across its entire operation by the end of this year […]
Bus News
Statement on TfL budget released
On Wednesday 20 March 2019 Transport for London (TfL) released its budget which demonstrated that its operating deficit has almost halved from £968m to £500m in 2018/2019. In a statement Gareth Bacon AM, Chairman of […]
