Irizar ie Tram buses are entering service in London from today (20 November 2024). The pantograph-powered buses will be introduced in phases to one of London’s longest bus routes, between Crystal Palace and Orpington. The pantograph technology on Go-Ahead London operated route 358 allows fast, high-power charging of the new buses at each end of […]
Trade union Unite is marking World Toilet Day today (19 November 2024) by telling bus companies that lack of decent toilet facilities will not be tolerated. The union’s warning comes at a time when it is increasingly making a lack of toilet dignity a key industrial issue, saying it has been a focus in a […]
There’s a buzz of energy around Darren Roe, MD of Stagecoach East, which contrasts sharply with many of the more laconic bus company managers I’ve met. In fact ‘buzz’ may be an understatement; he’s quite exhausting to listen to, and I mean that as a compliment. It was evident when I heard him talk at […]
Membership organisation CILT (UK) is bringing back its BusMark scheme. Industry stalwart, Austin Birks, was on the membership organisation’s stand at Euro Bus Expo to tell people about the benchmarking scheme, which carries out an annual survey supplemented by seasonal snapshot questionnaires, that help establish the position of operators on a number of key themes […]
Chapman Seating gained much attention at Euro Bus Expo for its next generation of drivers seats: the All-Ride. The new seats have been created with the company’s existing design focuses in mind (comfort, failsafe and maintainable), as well as with the additions of inclusivity and sustainability. They feature no foam, instead using spring mattresses from […]
Transdev has launched the first of 20 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro electric single-deckers into service. The first vehicles from the incoming new fleet, resplendent in the bright red livery of Transdev subsidiary, are now in service on The Harrogate Bus Company’s route 1 linking Harrogate and Knaresborough up to every eight minutes. And more new buses to […]
BYD has unveiled an all-new single-deck electric bus and a production version of the BD11 ‘decker it revealed in prototype at the London Bus Museum at Brooklands. The 12-metre B12 single-deck uses the same chassis-integrated LFP Blade battery and twin ‘hairpin’ hub motors as the BD11 to achieve a range of as much as 310 […]
Campaign for Better Transport is calling on the government to introduce a Bus Service Guarantee as part of its promised ‘bus revolution’. The Guarantee would ensure all communities have at least a minimum, reasonable level of bus service. “If the government really wants to bring about ‘London-style’ services across the country, it should define the […]