Wrightbus will be showcasing the capabilities of hydrogen at the Hydrogen Day event in Cardiff on 10 October. The Northern Ireland-based firm will be exhibiting its hydrogen double-decker at the event. The company launched its first zero-emission bus, the Streetdeck Hydroliner, in 2020 in Aberdeen, with the fleet entering passenger service in January 2021. The […]
A further £80 million to support buses into 2025 has been pledged by the government. Today (28 September 2023), Roads Minister Richard Holden confirmed allocations for 64 local authorities across England from the £80 million investment in the Bus Service Improvement Plan+ (BSIP+) for 2024-25. Local authorities can use the funding to improve local buses […]
First Group-owned Aircoach has launched its first ever English routes, with a new airport service between Leicester and Birmingham Airport. The service runs from St Margaret’s Bus Station (stand SZ) in the centre of Leicester, picking up at Fosse Park and then direct to Birmingham Airport, seven days a week, every hour, 24 hours a […]
Trade show Coach and Bus UK has been cancelled entirely. Show organiser Diversified Communications announces its UK trade events will change to a biennial frequency from 2024. This leaves just Euro Bus Expo out of the two bus and coach exhibitions, taking place every other year. The next one will be in 2024 at its […]
Stagecoach reports its Oxford Tube service is a ‘roaring success’ and is to increase capacity. The boost to services will require more coaches added to the service. The scheduled coach service, operated between Oxford and London, is seeing strong demand, according to the operator. It reports demand in weekends in particular is ‘very high’. The […]
Ticketer’s latest electronic ticketing machine (ETM) is now being used on Greater Manchester’s Bee Network. Ticketer’s Next Generation ETM, along with the Ticketer Smart Gateway, are now being used on the Bee Network, Greater Manchester’s franchised transport network that launched on Sunday (24 September 2023). Ticketer and Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) have launched the […]
Alexander Dennis has appointed Big Rig Manufacturing as contract manufacturing partner to meet resurging interest in the Enviro500 double-decker in North America. Big Rig Manufacturing is a subsidiary of Big Rig Collision Group, a leading provider of truck, bus and motorcoach accident repairs in Canada and the United States. Starting next year, it will assemble […]
Greater Manchester’s franchised bus network, the Bee Network, is now up and running. The first Bee Network buses left depots in Bolton and Wigan this morning. The mobilisation marked a culmination of months of preparation by a team of 600 people at Go North West, which won the first two contracts to operate Bee Network […]