A number of professionals from the bus and coach industry received titles in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Ballymena featured strongly with Wrights Group Chairman and CEO, Mark Nodder, receiving an OBE for services to the economy in Northern Ireland and Wrightbus’ William John (Jack) Kernohan receiving an MBE for services to the bus […]
Following a competitive tender process, First York has won the five year contract to operate the University of York bus services from August this year. The newly named UoY66 high frequency service will run from 2 August between York Railway Station, the city centre, the University and York Sport Village via Lakeside Way. The contract […]
Irizar and Go-Ahead have signed an agreement for two Irizar i2e electric buses to be put into operation in London from the end of July. The buses will go on routes 507 (Waterloo station to Victoria Station) and 521 (Waterloo Station to London Bridge Station). The 12m buses feature a continuous low floor and two […]
Stagecoach owned megabus.com is introducing a new network of services in Italy. The operator is to link 13 locations in the country: Rome, Milan, Florence, Venice, Naples, Turin, Bologna, Verona, Padua, Siena, Genoa, Sarzana (La Spezia) and Pisa. Fares on all journeys start from €1. The addition of these services takes the number of destinations […]
Overall trading for FirstGroup in the year ending 31 March 2015 was reported to be in line with management expectations. It achieved revenue of £6,050.7m (2014: £6,717.4m), down 9.9%. However, its EBITDA rose 7.7% to £624.4m (2014: £579.8m) and its adjusted operating profit was £303.6m (2014: £268m), a 13.3% increase. First’s UK Bus division achieved […]
TfL has launched a consultation to provide a Sunday service on bus routes 352 and 354 for the first time, running every 30 minutes. The proposal would provide a new service on Sundays for parts of Park Langley and Ravensbourne as well as links to TfL’s tram network around Beckenham and Birkbeck. Stopping arrangements on […]
Transdev is to work in partnership with York Pride for an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) celebration in the city on 20 June. The company has agreed to be a sponsor of the annual event and will provide an open top electric City Sightseeing bus to lead the parade around the city. It will […]
Rather than sending it to a scrap yard, Arriva Southern Counties has donated an unwanted bus at its Harlow depot to the nearby fire station. The firefighters used the vehicle to practice their rescue techniques at the operator’s site. The Fire Safety Roadshow truck was also on hand on the day to provide Arriva staff […]