Exterion Media has announced the winner of its Kids’ Wrapped Bus competition. Isla Thoms, aged 10, from Glasgow Gaelic School (Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu) was crowned the winner, seeing her design displayed on a First bus in Glasgow. Isla’s bus wrap design features the River Kelvin as well as other landmarks in the city, such as […]
Bus campaign group, Greener Journeys, has heralded what it calls a ‘bus renaissance’. It cites official Government figures showing passenger numbers have been growing in certain towns and cities, particularly more affluent parts of the south. It claims this is bucking the trend of long term decline across the UK as a whole. A new […]
Multi-operator tickets are available for 69% of bus trips, according to the latest National Fares Survey across Great Britain by the TAS Partnership. The figure varies by market, operating group and region. The National Fares Survey, published this week and covering fares gathered from October 2015, showed that multi-operator tickets are available for: 100% of […]
A full electric Volvo 7900E single decker direct from Gothenburg, Sweden, has arrived in Harrogate. It has a similar specification to the eight vehicles that will be entering service in 2018 with the Transdev Blazefield owned The Harrogate Bus Company. They are part funded by the Government’s Low Emission Bus Scheme. The £2.25m project being […]
Thamesdown Transport Ltd has been taken over by Go South Coast, part of the Go-Ahead Group. The decision to sell the municipal bus company to the national operator was taken at Swindon Borough Council’s Cabinet meeting on 1 February 2017. The deal is expected to ensure Thamesdown Transport has a sustainable future, according to the […]
Director of Lucketts Travel, Ian Luckett, has been appointed CPT President for 2017. He takes over from John Birtwistle, Head of Policy at FirstGroup UK’s Bus Division. Speaking about his appointment, Ian Luckett said, ‘I am delighted to have been appointed CPT President for the coming year. As a coach operator, I know the challenges […]
Touchless ticketing is being trialled by bus passengers in West Yorkshire. Everyone who takes part in the test will get half price travel on The Shuttle 662 route, which runs between Keighley and Bradford every ten minutes. West Yorkshire Combined Authority and The Keighley Bus Company (part of Transdev) has chosen The Shuttle route for […]
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has launched two new transport services. The Pennine Local Link is designed to offer convenient and affordable transport links between Littleborough, Milnrow, Small Bridge and the Royal Oldham Hospital. It is to run weekdays from 05.00 to 19.00. Passengers need to register once and can then book journeys online or […]