Two operators have joined up with Swindon Borough Council for a special event to help ensure accessibility to the region’s bus services. Go-Ahead Group-owned Swindon’s Bus Company and Stagecoach West have taken part in a session designed to make boarding buses a simple and straightforward process for people with learning disabilities, and for those with […]
A recent webinar gave coach tour operators the opportunity to explore the benefits of RHA’s collaboration with ABTA which launched on 3 April 2024. Referring to ‘a comprehensive service’ moderator Phil Snowden, Membership Director at RHA, described how the skills and strengths of both organisations were being brought together to deliver preferential access to mutual […]
The Go-Ahead Group has acquired four regional coach companies. It is acquiring Procters Coaches in North Yorkshire; Compass Royston serving Stockton, Middlesbrough and Teesside; Esk Valley operating in North and East Riding of Yorkshire and Fourway Coaches in West Yorkshire. This sees Go-Ahead take on 200 new employees and a fleet of 140 vehicles across […]
City Sightseeing Oxford provided an open-top bus tour to give Widowed and Young’s Oxfordshire Big Picnic guests an extra boost this year with a tour. More than 20 members of the charity Widowed and Young gathered for the annual picnic event in support of Oxfordshire’s widowed community. Oxford Bus Company, owners of City Sightseeing Oxford, […]
Britain’s buses could be the first to be totally net-zero if a timetable of support for this is introduced, according to a report by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). SMMT highlights that bus manufacturers have invested significantly in green innovation with some 13 different zero-emission models now available in the UK. More […]
BYD has launched an all-new electric double-decker bus, the BYD BD11, which offers 532kWh of batteries with a theoretical range of 400 miles at its claimed 0.7kWh per kilometre. Introduced by at the London Bus Museum by Leon Daniels OBE, the 10.9-metre ‘decker in London spec is already rumoured to have orders for 100 vehicles. […]
Open-top sightseeing operator, Tootbus, has secured approval for plans to install roof-mounted solar panels on their Wandsworth depot, working in collaboration with electric fleet solutions provider VEV. This project will power the existing electric fleet with 100% end-to-end renewable power, providing 65,000kWh of electricity annually or approximately 60,000km of travel per year once the full […]
Trade organisation Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) says it is working to mitigate the impacts of the EU’s biometric border arrangements on coach travellers heading into Europe, especially in peak periods. The assurance comes as a Lords Committee concludes the change could lead to travel disruption at borders, including Dover and Eurotunnel. The Entry and […]