As part of a continuing campaign to grow bus use, Reading Buses has launched its first third party smartcard top-up facility. It has been placed at the Reading University Student Union (RUSU) shop, ‘Campus Central’. After many months of discussion and development with both RUSU and Reading University, the new facility now enables students and […]
Alba Travel of Penrith has rebranded for 2015. Having commenced operations in 2002, the company has grown to run a 15 strong fleet. It provides a range of group travel services, including various transfers in the Lake District National Park for hotels, tour operators and event organisers. The new branding has been created by a […]
Bus remains the most commonly used form of public transport in Great Britain, according to new research from the Office of National Statistics. The study, ‘How we Travel’, suggested that while rail accounts for the most distance travelled by public transport, the highest number of all journeys in Great Britain in 2013/14 were via bus […]
In the six months ended 27 December 2014, Go-Ahead Group revenue rose 13.8% to £1,558.7m (H1 2014: £1,370m). The company’s bus division ‘performed well’ during the period, with overall operating profit at £45.1m (H1 2014: £41.6m), an increase of 8.4%. In line with its target plan, the regional bus business has overtaken its London bus […]
Ipswich Buses has become the first recipient of CPT’s new and professionally recognised Workshop Accreditation. Recently designed and launched by CPT’s Engineering Committee with support from the Traffic Commissioners, the Accreditation assesses bus and coach operators’ workshops, as well as dealer workshops. It examines them against a series of in-depth engineering compliance and health and […]
Parking in Paris is set to triple in price on 1 May 2015, following a decision by the Council of Paris. French trade body, the National Federation of Passenger Transport (FNTV), denounced the method chosen for the implementation of such measures as well as what it describes as the exorbitant cost of the increase. The […]
As a mark of respect for those who lost their lives in the tipper truck incident in Bath on 9 February, First West of England drivers in the city will be swapping their normal uniforms to wear black on 23 February. In doing so, they will also be raising funds for the Air Ambulance, which […]
In the past year, almost 150,000 National Express Dundee smartcards have been bought. Additionally, nearly 20,000 smart Student Weeklies have been bought since the start of this academic year alone. National Express Dundee is the first in Scotland to operate a smart ticketing system which offers commercial products on the national Entitlement Card, as well […]