The Welsh Traffic Commissioner, Victoria Davies, has rebuked a council for failing to plan to cover the services of a failing operator. Globe Coaches had been called to a public inquiry on 29 September after a maintenance investigation in March which discovered multiple failings on inspections, a safety defect and almost half vehicles failing MoT, […]
Campaign for Better Transport is calling for more to be done to deliver a zero-emission bus fleet. It notes that since the Government’s commitment in February 2020 to deliver 4,000 zero-emission buses, only around 50 to 100 are on the road. Of the 38,000 buses nationally, only 12% of the fleet are hybrid and 2% […]
Irizar has handed over two electric buses in for Bulgaria‘s first electro-mobility project. The 12m and 18m electric buses have been handed over to BurgasBus in Burgas, Bulgaria’s fourth largest city. They are the first of 34 12m units and ten 18m buses, which are being delivered in addition to 44 interoperable ECI-10 chargers from […]
FlixBus is pricing one-way tickets from 99p on domestic destinations for journeys between 6 November and 15 December. Discounted tickets can be found on routes covering England, Wales and Scotland. There are close to 30 cities in the network, including London, Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Leicester and Sheffield. FlixBus has added direct […]
Snam, Toyota and CaetanoBus have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), with the aim of starting a wide-ranging collaboration to promote and accelerate the introduction of hydrogen-based mobility. The agreement sees the companies join forces and know-how to explore and develop projects aimed at promoting, enabling and accelerating the introduction of hydrogen mobility, both for […]
Q-Park Limited, one of Europe’s leading parking services providers, has signed a deal with Scania (Great Britain) Limited for the first four, factory-ordered Scania Fencer f1 buses. Scheduled for delivery in May 2022, the vehicles will feature the livery of Q-Park in partnership with Purple Parking and will provide a premium car park to airport […]
Dignitaries from around the world, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and UN Secretary-General António Guterres, travelled in a fleet of BYD ADL Enviro400EV electric double deck buses during the 26th United Nations (“UN”) Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. ADL collaborated with transport group Stagecoach in providing ten electric buses […]
Mistral Group has supplied HCT Group with a further four brand-new Alexander Dennis Ltd (ADL) Enviro200s. The 8.9m vehicles will be operated out of the group’s CT Plus Yorkshire operation as they commence new route coverage in partnership with First Group, serving the local communities of Calderdale. Mistral Sales Manager, Andy Biggs, said: “Mistral have […]