The centre piece of the Go Ahead Group’s two-year £30m investment in Go North East was unveiled last week with the opening of the new £8.5m Gateshead Riverside depot. Located on part of the site of the former Dunston power station, the new facility covers 5.75 acres and will be home to 160 buses. It […]
Although 1 January 2014 was supposed to be the day after which all new coaches purchased would have to have Euro6 engines, it became evident long before that operators would be able to continue buying new Euro5 coaches for some time thereafter, indeed well into 2015 and even beyond if the possibilities of our certification […]
The Zero Emission Urban Bus System (ZeEUS) project was officially launched in Brussels on 23 January by UITP. The event was held in the Palais des Academies, across the street from the Royal Palace in the centre of the city. UITP is playing an important role in co-ordinating 40 organisations in an innovative project to […]
Baroness Kramer’s reassuring address at last Thursday night’s CPT Annual Dinner was welcome. She reminded us the UK population continues to grow and public transport has an increasing role in preventing worsening congestion. How true this is, and, as she observed, with buses being the most popular form of public transport by far, the omens […]
Exciting times are ahead for battery pack specialist, Powervamp, as it introduces a new look for its products in its 20th year in business. Fresh labelling is being applied to the company’s range of jump start packs in an effort to not only bring their image right up to date, but also to make the […]
When Volvo announced its Euro6 product line up last April, Hakan Karlsson, now Head of Business Areas Volvo Group, which includes Volvo Buses, made it clear that the company was already looking much further ahead towards a future based on electromobility. Present at the event was a significant step on that journey, the first plug […]
It was a positive blue Monday in Telford this week as Arriva Midlands launched a new fleet of vehicles for the 481 route linking Telford with Stafford. The six blue liveried Wrightbus VDL single-deckers will provide additional capacity to support the continued growth of patronage on a route that has already seen frequency increases and […]
In what the companies involved believe is the first project of its scale anywhere, Arriva The Shires is to operate eight fully electric Wheel Forward Wrightbus Streetlite EVs in service in Milton Keynes. The buses will be charged using an induction system with recharging pads at each end of the 15 mile route 7 between […]