Malcolm Robson, MD of Ipswich Buses, has had a busy year as President of CPT UK, but he hasn’t been neglecting the day job. 2013 was an eventful year for the business which has faced competition from First and won a significant new contract, as I found when I visited him in the run up […]
One of the simple measures of the strength of a country’s economy is the number of tower cranes and new multi-story buildings under construction. Istanbul is booming and spreading on both sides of the Bosphorus. A new rail tunnel link has just been opened under the waterway, and a third bridge will be built to […]
Leon Daniels, TfL’s MD Surface Transport, didn’t hold back at the launch of two new BYD e-bus electric buses at Go-Ahead’s Waterloo depot on 18 December. ‘This is a really exciting day for us,’ he said, ‘We hope to see hundreds of these in due course.’ He had been to the BYD Auto plant in […]
I think 2013 will go down in the memory as something of a curate’s egg as far as the bus and coach industry is concerned. Curate’s egg? – good in parts. The Government, or at least Chancellor George Osborne, spent much of the year telling us that the economy was improving and things were getting […]
Kent County Council hosted the first Clean Bus Technology roadshow to be held by exhaust system specialist, Eminox. The event aimed to inform attendees of the importance of reducing emissions from buses and coaches, as well as the best practice in doing this. It also highlighted the new SCRT emission reduction system from Eminox, which […]
For the past 25 years Q’Straint has focused on the goal of developing the world’s most effective wheelchair passenger safety solutions for public and private transportation, a process that has seen it repeatedly create innovative product options. When I was invited to its Whitstable, Kent, headquarters with the promise of seeing a new product the […]
At both the IAA in 2012 and this year’s Busworld, there was significant evidence that full electric bus operations are seen by many as the way forward for urban operation so the opportunity to attend this year’s Elektromobilitaet (electric mobility) conference in Dresden was not to be missed. Around 250 participants filled the room at […]
Lothian Buses has long been highly regarded for the quality of its maintenance and their unfailingly smart appearance coupled with the popularity of its vehicles on the secondhand market is testament to the attention paid to their maintenance throughout their lives. Stuart Jones recently met up with Lothian’s Engineering Director, Bill Devlin, to see the […]