FirstBus has announced proposals to close three of its smaller depots: Newcastle-under-Lyme, Hereford and Bracknell later this year. Under the proposals, which are subject to consultation, Bracknell will close on 28 August. Some routes will be retained but will operate from First’s depot in Slough, including Greenline services to London and Legoland services. The operator […]
Thousands of South Yorkshire school children will continue to benefit from the safety educational programme ‘Crucial Crew’, after First Bus joined together with South Yorkshire Police, Safer Roads Partnership and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue to deliver the life-skills programme to 16,000 year 6 pupils across South Yorkshire. The ‘Crucial Crew’ programme is delivered at […]
Thanks to visitors who flocked to the Open Day at Reading Buses’ Great Knollys Street depot, more than £6,000 has been raised for the company’s Charity of the Year, Alzheimer’s Society, over than a third more than 2014 and the most ever raised from the event. The event was well supported by a number of […]
B.A.S.E Ltd have taken delivery of the first RHD UK specification MAN 13.8m Barbi Galileo HDH model for it’s sister company Holmeswood Coaches Ltd. The coach was collected from Italy by Holmeswood’s Managing Director Francis Aspinall accompanied by Group Engineering Director Mark Aspinall. Both say they are delighted with the high quality finish and solid […]
Grasshopper, the multi-operator bus pass for the North East of Scotland, is now generating over 5,000 passenger trips per month and due to popular demand, it has been extended to cover all of the North East of Scotland with an expanded range of ticket types. Customers from all areas of Aberdeen City and Shire can […]
MAN has marked the hundredth year of producing trucks and buses. It was on 21 June 1915 that the ‘Lastwagenwerke M.A.N.-Saurer’ was entered in the commercial register of the city of Nuremberg. Family days at its plants around the world are being held with the largest event taking place at its headquarters in Munich on […]
Campaign for Better Transport says the Government’s house building and development plans will create gridlock on the road network unless more is done to make public transport integral to new developments. In a letter to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, CfBT Chief Executive, Stephen Joseph, says that without stronger planning policies […]
TfL’s refusal to allow up to seven coaches to use an east London residential street during peak commuting hours was correct, a Transport Tribunal has ruled. In the first ever challenge to TfL’s London Service Permit system, which sets out which routes coaches may use in the Capital, Kent based Centaur Coaches wanted to use […]