Funding for bus services ‘should not be a postcode lottery based on the cancelled HS2 route’, according to the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT). The CPT’s comments are in response to today’s (26 February 2024) news of how the £4.7 billion Local Transport Fund, announced in October, will be allocated across the North and Midlands. […]
A move to allow car driving licence holders be able to drive D1 category vehicles without any additional test has been voted down in the Commons Chamber. On 21 February 2024, Thérèse Coffey, Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal, asked parliament whether the change in law could be made (encompassing D1 and C1 vehicles). She notes […]
Travel tech company Flix has announced the launch of its pilot for the first electric long-distance coach service in England and Wales. From 21 March until June 2024, travellers will be able to try out the electric vehicle on a FlixBus route between London, Bristol and Newport (South Wales). It will be trialled for three […]
Further details of how funding unlocked from the cancellation of Phase 2 of the HS2 project is to be funnelled into bus and other local transport enhancements has been announced. The announcement sheds light on how funding originally earmarked for the now-cancelled HS2 Phase 2 project is to be allocated in the North and Midlands. […]
Wrightbus has secured an order from German operator Saarbahn. The 28 Kite Hydroliners are due to be delivered this year. The order follows similar orders in Germany from West Verkehr, which will receive 12 single-deck Kite Hydroliners, and Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH (RVK), which has signed a contract for up to 60 Kite Hydroliners. Further contracts […]
Charlotte ‘Charley’ Eaton, one of Newport Transport’s drivers on its Swansea to London FlixBus services, is to shave her hair off for charity. On 29 February, the official McMillan Cancer Support ‘Brave the Shave’ day, Charlotte is to chop her luscious locks off and donate her hair to the Little Princess Trust. This organisation provides […]
Slane Coaches has taken delivery of an Iveco Daily-based Ferqui Sunrise 29-seater from EVM Ireland. The Iveco is based on the 70C18 chassis with a diesel engine coupled to a Hi-Matic eight-speed automatic gearbox. Features include a plug-type passenger door, EVM panoramic double-glazed saloon windows in privacy grey, a large luggage area, Webasto saloon air-conditioning, full-length […]
Stagecoach and FirstGroup have been ranked among some of the world’s greenest companies. FirstGroup has been recognised with a place in the 2024 Clean200 report of the world’s cleanest 200 companies. It boasts being one of only eight UK companies to be included. FirstGroup makes the list for the fifth year in succession and is […]