A further £80 million to support buses into 2025 has been pledged by the government. Today (28 September 2023), Roads Minister Richard Holden confirmed allocations for 64 local authorities across England from the £80 million investment in the Bus Service Improvement Plan+ (BSIP+) for 2024-25. Local authorities can use the funding to improve local buses […]
First Group-owned Aircoach has launched its first ever English routes, with a new airport service between Leicester and Birmingham Airport. The service runs from St Margaret’s Bus Station (stand SZ) in the centre of Leicester, picking up at Fosse Park and then direct to Birmingham Airport, seven days a week, every hour, 24 hours a […]
Trade show Coach and Bus UK has been cancelled entirely. Show organiser Diversified Communications announces its UK trade events will change to a biennial frequency from 2024. This leaves just Euro Bus Expo out of the two bus and coach exhibitions, taking place every other year. The next one will be in 2024 at its […]
Ticketer’s latest electronic ticketing machine (ETM) is now being used on Greater Manchester’s Bee Network. Ticketer’s Next Generation ETM, along with the Ticketer Smart Gateway, are now being used on the Bee Network, Greater Manchester’s franchised transport network that launched on Sunday (24 September 2023). Ticketer and Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) have launched the […]
Alexander Dennis has appointed Big Rig Manufacturing as contract manufacturing partner to meet resurging interest in the Enviro500 double-decker in North America. Big Rig Manufacturing is a subsidiary of Big Rig Collision Group, a leading provider of truck, bus and motorcoach accident repairs in Canada and the United States. Starting next year, it will assemble […]
Greater Manchester’s franchised bus network, the Bee Network, is now up and running. The first Bee Network buses left depots in Bolton and Wigan this morning. The mobilisation marked a culmination of months of preparation by a team of 600 people at Go North West, which won the first two contracts to operate Bee Network […]
Experienced Go-Ahead bus drivers have travelled from across Britain to take part in Sunday’s Bee Network bus launch in Manchester. Yellow-branded Bee Network buses will begin on Sunday morning on 50 routes in and around Bolton and Wigan, the first stage in Greater Manchester’s franchised bus network. Go North West has borrowed 85 drivers from […]
Rural areas are set to benefit from the Scottish government’s Community Bus Fund. The Fund is designed to support local transport authorities to explore the options for bus services set out in the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019, and improve public transport in their areas. More than £5 million is being made available as part of […]