A dispute over the cost of building the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway has been settled. The contractor, BAM Nuttall, has agreed to pay £33m back to Cambridgeshire County Council meaning the local authority will have paid the Busway builder £84.7m. The original price was £83.9m with BAM claiming that the construction had actually cost them £152.5m […]
East Yorkshire Motor Services’ (EYMS) eighth ‘Big Bus Day’ attracted a record 5,600 attendees. Held at Hull’s Streetlife Museum of Transport, the event raised around £2,500 for the NSPCC. One of the major attractions was the New Bus for London (NBfL), which was diverted on its way to the capital, where it will be used […]
Lincoln’s Walk and Ride minibus service, linking the uphill and downhill shopping regions in the city, has been saved from withdrawal thanks to a new deal. Previously operated by the City of Lincoln Council, the bus’s future came into doubt after it decided it could not afford to run it after having to deal with […]
Former Director of Whole Vehicle Engineering at Bentley Motors, Ken Scott, has moved to take the new role of Group Engineering Director at Alexander Dennis Ltd (ADL). Ken said, ‘It wasn’t a difficult decision to join ADL, albeit that I’ve spent 20 great years with Bentley and, prior to that, seven years with the Land […]
Electronic ‘book-style’ technology showing bus timetable, ticket price and real time service information has gone on trial in the West Midlands in what is thought to be a world first. Transport authority, Centro, is trialling an information suite featuring eight e-paper screens, similar to those found in gadgets such as the Kindle, at a bus […]
Showbus, the UK’s biggest bus and coach rally, is being held at a new venue at Long Marston Airfield, just south of Stratford-upon-Avon, on 22 September. The event has attracted entries from across the UK and abroad, including the show debut of Darren Cunningham’s Greyhound Scenicruiser, the iconic American Greyhound coach of the fifties. There […]
Reading Buses CEO, James Freeman, has said the 11 ADL bodied Scania gas buses in his fleet ‘have been operating faultlessly’ over the four months they have been in operation. They are being used on Reading Borough Council’s greenwave routes. It is three months since the rest of the 20 strong gas bus fleet were […]
French transport giant, RATP Group, has described its operating record and financial results for the half year ending 30 June 2013 as ‘very sound’. Group revenue amounted to £2,219.5m/EUROS2,619m, up 4.1% compared to the same period in 2012. Its net results rose 27.5% over the last six months to £161m/EUROS190m. RATP’s subsidiary, RATP Dev, continues […]