Editor’s Blog

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 […]

Bus and Coach Buyer often shares news of bus and coach operations and other technicalities within the industry, however, experiences of regular bus users are not so common. My name is Mwika Bulaya and my main mode of travel is by bus every day. As I have been using these services for some time now […]

A few evenings ago, I drove along the A647 in the evening rush hour, a road that has seen significant investment in the past couple of years with the creation of the Leeds-Bradford cycle super highway and new bus stop infrastructure. The works also involved a significant restructuring of the roundabout where the A647 meets […]