Chris Conway has been appointed as Translink’s new Group Chief Executive. Chris is currently MD of Tata Steel’s sales and distribution business in Ireland; previously he was vice president of operations in Europe for Nortel and MD of Nortel (NI) Ltd. He is Chairman of Northern Ireland Co-operation Overseas and a member of the Board […]
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Oldham Council are to work together to deliver a project exploring new ways of providing rural communities with more effective, specialist transport links. To be undertaken in Saddleworth, Oldham, the project has secured an £81,000 grant from the government’s Total Transport Pilot Fund. The ‘Oldham Shared Transport’ project will […]
Blackpool Transport has showcased six of its ten new Mercedes-Benz Citaros at a stakeholder launch event on the town’s Promenade. Representing an investment of over £1.7m, the Euro6 Citaros feature E-leather trimmed seats, wood effect flooring, free Wi-Fi and mobile charging points for customers. They feature extra room for wheelchairs and customers with buggies than […]
Stagecoach East Scotland has launched 18 new Volvo B5LH hybrids with ADL’s latest double deck MMC bodywork in Dundee. They are the first ADL group bodied Volvo service buses for Stagecoach since Alexander RL bodied Olympians were introduced into the fleet in 1999. The new vehicles are for the high frequency Tayway 73 route connecting […]
CPT, in conjunction with the London Tour Coach Operators Association (LTCOA), has had a ‘productive meeting’ with TfL. Issues were raised surrounding operating coaches in London, in particular parking. Chaired by Ben Plowden, Director of Strategy and Planning, Surface Transport at TfL, it involved Head of Delivery Planning, Lilli Matson and Senior Strategy and Planning […]
East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) is to make its Beverley bus services better from 24 May. It is making what it describes as the biggest ‘shake-up’ of buses in that area in decades. The town will get a new dedicated Hull-Beverley service (Service 122), which will give North Molescroft/Butterfly Meadows and St Leonard’s Road/Copandale Road […]
Lothian Buses is ‘moving on’ after a report by auditors KPMG was published clearing the operator of any wrongdoing in its handling of a dispute between the operator’s directors. The row started last year when deputies of its CEO, Ian Craig, filed grievances against him. The report said there was a ‘well-defined and clear approach […]
TfL’s Route 73 is the next to be operated entirely by Wrightbus built New Routemasters. The vehicles are now being phased into the Arriva operated service, which runs between Victoria and Stoke Newington, via Hyde Park Corner, Marble Arch, Oxford Circus, Tottenham Court Road, Euston, King’s Cross St Pancras, Angel and Essex Road. During peaks […]