Editor’s Blog

While we applaud the formation of Mobility Matters – full story in next week’s issue – to offer help to community transport organisations left high and dry by the DfT’s ‘new’ guidance, it is ridiculous to simultaneously pretend that it’s all to do with an ongoing Public Inquiry, that it will never happen, and that […]

Mark Self has dropped me a line, after reading our ULEZ/CAZ extravaganza, highlighting the machinations of operators over the route to Euro 6. Aiming leftfield, Mark points out that, while diesel cars now garner the kind of reaction once reserved for dog mess, their petrol equivalents are regarded as ‘clean,’ simply because NOx and particulate […]

It took me a few years to work out that the best way to get around central London is the bus. The tipping point was travelling home from King’s Cross with an Underground worker, who was dressed in cycling garb. ‘Surely you get free Tube travel?’ I asked. ‘Yes, but I don’t use it; it’s […]

If Sadiq Khan gets his way, as it seems he will, the Ultra Low Emission Zone will force thousands of coach tourists and visitors out of London in 2019. It’s quite simple; if you don’t have a Euro 6 coach, you’ll pay £100 or perhaps £200 a time to the Mayor to get into the […]

Well, after 13 years in the freelance world, it definitely feels good to have my feet back under a desk in an office full of people. Working for yourself can be a lonely place. The compensation is being able to choose, to some extent, when you work and for whom. But for me, joining Bus […]

There is a rather tongue in cheek promotional campaign on many of Berlin’s buses at the moment, particularly the large batch of Scania Citywide articulated buses delivered to BVG over the last year or so. It takes the form of up to three line expressions in white block capitals applied to the window line. Some […]

After visiting the VCS85 event, I took the opportunity to sample the BYD double deckers that Metroline are running on TfL route 98 from Holborn to Willesden. It’s a route of three parts; the whole length of the West End shopping experience on Oxford Street; Edgware Road, amajor arterial route and suburban streets from Kilburn […]

Reading ‘Die Welt’ over breakfast on my way back from Nuremberg, I was alarmed by an article which implied that Germany was very close to running out of electricity during the last week of January. Like the UK, the country has made significant strides towards renewable energy options and its shift away from conventional and […]