When I was walking to the hotel, I saw something else I’d not seen before, a policeman pull over and book a cyclist for riding through a red light. Was this a coincidence or is it a new policy because something does need doing about the road sense of cyclists. Too many are being injured […]
Last week’s Optare launch at Covent Garden was quite an event. With only nine months development time and so many double deck false dawns in the past, I had feared that we might be witnessing something less impressive than turned out to be the case, but a TfL specification double deck weighing a shade under […]
Production of the Starliner as well as the Cityliner and Jetliner models will be transferred to the Ankara plant in Turkey that already builds the Tourliner by the end of March 2015. It was the more surprising to me because I was there with Dave Parry as recently as March and there was no hint […]
I’ve been North of the Border this week for the launch of ADL’s all new Enviro400 and a look at their Larbert facility: neither disappointed. They’ve set out to raise the benchmark in the double deck arena and there’s no question that it’s better all round than the already popular existing model. They’ve listened to […]
Last week we printed a range of testimonials in praise of our 25th Anniversary. However, there was one from Alan White at Midis to Minis that slipped through the system and did not get in. So without much further ado, here it is: 25 years, where did it go? Well, hearty congratulations to the whole […]
It seems incredible to me that this week’s edition marks 25 years since we started Bus & Coach Buyer; it doesn’t feel anything like that long. Sitting down to write an editorial feature on the anniversary was a reminder to me of how much the industry has changed in the intervening period as well as […]
Frankly, I had expected the public to think better of it and stay in bed but no, there was a crowd assembled, predominantly of children who had brought their parents along, but swelled by dignitaries and local politicians. Lots was going on, it was colourful if damp, and for a while there was a buzz. […]
Arriving from the north, having seen extensive works in progress on the new Forth crossing from the present road bridge, I took advantage of the Park and Ride (P+R) site at Ingliston, one of five strategically placed sites close to the city’s ring road. The site is well used and has the benefit of a […]