Optare is partnering with TfL and The London Transport Museum as an official sponsor of Year of the Bus, a celebration of the capital’s bus network. The year will also see the launch of Optare’s new double decker, out in May. Optare’s CEO, Enrico Vassallo, said, ‘As a leading UK bus manufacturer, I’m delighted Optare […]
Councillors from South Yorkshire ITA (SYITA) have agreed to discontinue free bus services in Sheffield and Rotherham from the end of April. The FreeBee services are publically funded. The councillors are also to stop the express 638 bus service in Doncaster, which runs weekday peak times between Doncaster’s North and South Park and Ride sites […]
Chief Executive of campaign group Greener Journeys, Claire Haigh, has said the RAC Foundation has missed the point on its recently published Transport Poverty 2014 statistics. The new figures reveal the least well off families in the UK have slipped further into transport poverty. They show that around 800,000 car owning households spent at least […]
Extra costs associated with a flurry of new products ‘put pressure’ on Volvo Group’s profitability in 2013, according to its President and CEO, Olof Persson. In its third quarter results, the Group’s operating income for 2013 was £672.1m/SEK7,138m (2012: £1,701.3m/SEK18,069m). Its income after taxes was £357.7m/SEK3,802m (2012: £1,070.6m/SEK11,378m). The Board of Directors proposes a dividend […]
London Hire Ltd has appointed Darren Brooke as its Northern Sales Account Manager. Darren has worked in the industry for over 15 years, representing such companies as Optare, Treka and more recently Unwin Safety Systems. He will be joining the current sales team to develop rental opportunities within the country on both wheelchair accessible and […]
First in Leeds has offered an alternative to the NGT trolleybus scheme proposed for the city by Metro. Dubbed ‘The New Bus for Leeds’, First claims this option will deliver a greatly enhanced transport service but far sooner than 2019, at a fraction of the cost and benefitting much more of the city instead of […]
Under plans to save £7.3m from its coming year’s budget, West Midlands transport authority (Centro) plans to keep free bus travel after 23.00 for older people, the blind and disabled. Centro has also proposed to safeguard free tram and train travel for eligible people and half price bus fares for children. Councillors are to meet […]
Greener Journeys will once again be spearheading Catch the Bus Week, a series of events running from 28 April to 4 May aimed at encouraging bus use. In addition to encouraging modal shift, it also aims to increase awareness of the benefits of bus travel in the UK in the process. The organisation wants this […]