Buses in Portsmouth will be free during weekends this September. As part of its Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP), Portsmouth City Council has collaborated with First Solent and Stagecoach South to offer the free weekend travel. The offer applies to all bus services when getting on the bus within the Portsmouth boundary from 31 August. […]
Transport for Wales (TfW) will now offer discounted fares for Hywel Dda staff on certain TrawsCymru bus services. Following a three-month free travel pilot, TfW has teamed up with Hywel Dda University Health Board (UHB) to offer long term discounted bus travel for health board staff to encourage workers to travel more sustainably and to […]
First Bus has today (28 August 2024) announced three of its depots are among the first in the country to receive verification of being net-zero depots. Fleets at the operator’s York, Leicester and Norwich depots are now fully electric. The sites have built on the progress of their fully electric commercial bus fleets by investing […]
National Express Coventry is trialling a Volvo BZL demonstrator. The electric single-decker can carry up to 75 passengers and is operating on the 20, 20A and 20B services between Coventry city centre, University Hospital and Wilson’s Lane. It joins the operator’s fleet of 140 double-deckers, which are all electric. The Volvo BZL demonstrator features a […]
A trade regulations body has recommended raising duties on imported Chinese tyres to safeguard the UK tyre retreading industry. The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) has today (27 August 2024) published its initial findings on two transition reviews into anti-dumping and countervailing measures on bus and lorry tyres imported from China. The organisation is an independent […]
Mayor of West of England Combined Authority, Dan Norris, has said he would like to set up a passenger transport executive (PTE) in his region. The Mayor announced this in a response to a campaign group’s letter imploring Mr Norris to introduce bus franchising in the West of England. He noted in the response that […]
Local authorities planning to franchise their region’s buses will ‘undoubtedly increase in coming months’, according to legal firm Freeths. The company is tracking developments in the ever-changing bus franchising scene. “It is notable that procurement processes embarked upon on or after 28 October will be undertaken within an entirely new procurement regime” – Freeths An […]
Stagecoach has been awarded the Gold award from the Armed Forces Covenant. The accolade is for the operator’s commitment to the armed forces community as part of The Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. The operator is one of the largest employers of ex-forces personnel within the UK, with over 2,000 veterans and reservists currently employed. The […]