Greater Manchester leaders will meet later this month to consider the introduction of bus franchising across the city-region. Greater Manchester is the first ever city-region in the UK to use the Bus Services Act 2017 to reach the stage of deciding whether to franchise its bus network as part of an integrated transport system. If […]
A new date for the testing stage of the IRTE Skills Challenge has been announced. The testing stage is now due to take place on the week commencing 21 June. The new date has been selected in line with the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown. It is hoped all legal limits on social contact can […]
Pride and Joy is celebrating 20 years in business this month. Jane and I first met when we were enrolled on the Goldman Sachs 10k small business programme. At first I couldn’t quite work out what Leisurewear Direct was about, so I remember asking her about it. Jane Phillips: ‘I was at very frustrating crossroads. […]
An additional expenditure of up to £61.4 million to enable Scotland’s bus operators to maintain services during the Covid-19 pandemic has been approved by the Scottish Government. The new funding extends the support of up to £191.3 million provided to increase bus services since June 2020. The money is to cover the period 1 April […]
Transport for London (TfL) is to reintroduce measures similar to those introduced during the autumn school term as pupils return to the classroom from 8 March. These include providing hundreds of extra buses and reintroducing the system of signed ‘School Service’ buses, as well as encouraging walking and cycling. The measures are intended to help […]
Construction work is underway on the Sprint bus route designed to deliver improved journey times and more reliable services linking Walsall, Birmingham and Solihull. The Sprint bus corridor along the A45 and A34 will feature new and extended bus lanes and give buses priority at junctions to beat the traffic jams. Construction work has now […]
Temporary operators have been called in by Go North West to keep its network running during strikes. The strike action has been taken by some of the operators’ Unite trade union members due to a dispute over pay and working practice changes. The Go-Ahead-owned operator has brought in operators from across the region to run […]
Stagecoach has announced a major investment in new technology it says will help plan bus networks post-pandemic. The operator is to roll-out the Optibus software platform. This software is used in more than 450 cities around the world and uses a combination of artificial intelligence, advanced algorithms and cloud computing to deliver smarter timetables and […]