Rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging systems provider Heliox and First Bus are announcing a significant expansion of their collaboration. The expanded partnership is to see the development of five new electric bus charging depots. These depots will be strategically located in Bristol, Weston-super-Mare, Minehead, Taunton and Basildon, and have been made possible thanks to an […]
Pulhams is set to receive 15 electric buses as part of parent company Go-Ahead Group’s wider electric bus orders across the UK. The vehicles include nine single-deckers and six double-deckers, all manufactured by Wrightbus. Pulhams has appointed Envevo to install the electric charging infrastructure at its depot in Bourton-on-the-Water in preparation for the arrival of […]
Stagecoach East is adding even more buses onto its Cambridgeshire Guided Busway routes after an unprecedented increase in passengers on the services. Last year, between August and September, Stagecoach East’s services on the Busway saw a 7% increase in passengers – this year that figure has ballooned to a 20% increase overall. At certain times […]
Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has visited Rochdale-based Mellor. The manufacturer has been building 28 buses for Greater Manchester’s franchised Bee Network, 21 of which are already in service and the remaining seven set to operate early next year. They are being used to serve smaller local estates and communities, with the compact buses […]
Brighton & Hove Buses is introducing personalised travel alerts on its app. The Go-Ahead-owned operator has had a new feature added to its journey planning app, where customers can choose to receive push notifications about any new disruptions affecting a route or bus stop that they have ‘favourited’ in the app. Currently, favouriting routes and […]
Go-Ahead Group has partnered with CitySwift, a public transport performance platform designed to make timetables more efficient and maximise service reliability. The platform is to provide Go-Ahead’s operating companies with insights to help maximise network reliability and punctuality. Go-Ahead has already used CitySwift in its East Yorkshire Buses, Oxford Bus Company and Go North East […]
Stagecoach East is partnering with the police and local Rape Crisis Centres that will see its Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire buses become safe-spaces. People, particularly women and girls, are able to flag down its buses if they are in fear of abuse. The operator is now part of the Businesses Against Abuse (BAA) scheme, which sees […]
FirstGroup has acquired Anderson Travel, a central London based coach company comprising three trading entities: Anderson Travel Ltd, Anderson Tours Ltd and London Mini Coaches Ltd. Anderson Travel currently operates around 40 coaches of varying sizes in and around London from a depot near Tower Bridge in central London and a new, smaller depot near […]