Coach tour and day trip organisers really should be going the extra mile right now to get the best experience for their group, to help attractions and to make more profit. Reading my colleague’s coverage of the Coach Tourism Association webinar – and very good it was too – I see that one operator felt […]
The first day of lockdown on 23 March seems like yesterday; the day we all realised that almost all coach and bus business had gone and, due to the relationship of infectious diseases with groups of people, was unlikely to return for quite some time. We’ve all been in a state of suspended animation since […]
As I stood on a pedestrian bridge shooting pictures of the Honk for Hope London demonstration, I began recognising faces behind the wheel. I was not looking at coaches, I was looking at industry colleagues I have met over 30 years. I know some of them well enough to know that they tend to be […]
Thanks to the tenacity of a B&CB correspondent, I now have more of a paper trail which, eventually, led up to the Traffic Commissioner for Wales, Nick Jones, revoking all of the permits held by community transport operator DANSA last year. This was on the eve of his retirement, and I cannot help but read […]
The council audit which revealed the scale of deficiency in the Accessible Transport Group (ATG) in the West Midlands is a shocker. ATG ran 600 vehicles on a variety of services, including Ring and Ride and schools transport, mainly using accessible minibuses and all on Section 19 permits using paid drivers. We have significant doubts […]
It is always sad to hear of the loss of someone in the industry, but the news that we have lost Aled Evans, who ran Impression Holidays, is especially sad. I met Aled when he was working at Galloway European alongside Bernie Miles, and he immediately created an impression as a really positive guy with […]
It seems to me, as a layman, that the verdict of the judges after the Judicial Review brought by the Bus and Coach Association is not a clear victory for either side. The High Court said it was not its remit to decide whether all community transport operators with Section 19 permits, bidding for commercially-tendered […]
I see that Newcastle’s promising start to setting an agenda for a Clean Air Zone has collapsed into weak-kneed populism. The initial idea was to stifle car use with a congestion charge and/or bridge tolls but after the consultation encouraged 19,000 angry responses from car drivers, the spineless local authority has caved in, thereby ensuring […]