Preparations for this year’s Catch the Bus Month are underway with the launch of the campaign Partner Pack from Bus Users UK. The charity is calling on transport operators, local authorities, passenger groups and communities across the UK to get behind the campaign which runs throughout September. Its Partner Pack offers a range of suggestions […]

ShuttleID, the ticketing platform for schools and work, is offering its parent boarding notification feature to transport operators for free. The safeguarding feature informs parents in real time when their child has boarded the school bus. When using the ShuttleID platform for school bus passes, each time a passenger boards and scans their mobile or […]

MAN Truck & Bus reports it had a slight increase in order intake of 4% to 49,517 vehicles in the first half of the year. Unit sales increased 61% for the company to 56,173 buses, trucks and vans in the period. It said this is based on the continued high order backlog, increasing stabilisation of […]

Cambridgeshire County Council is to clamp down on coaches using the west side of Queens Road in Cambridge as a pick-up point. The move follows a spate of complaints and photos of traffic stuck behind coaches pulled up on the double yellow lines. There is four-hour parking along the east side of the road. The […]

Buses of Somerset (First Bus South) lists ‘extremely challenging circumstances’ as a reason behind its plan to close its Bridgwater depot. The move is effective from 3 September and is part of further changes to its Somerset business. All services previously run from Bridgwater will operate from First Bus’s other depots across Somerset. As a […]

CPT London and South East has been staging Ride & Drive events at the North Weald Aerodrome near Harlow since 2012 and, after an absence in 2022, this year the invitation was opened up to all CPT members and moved to Monday evening rather than the previous Friday evening spot. Despite grey skies overhead, the […]

A new taskforce to help rural bus services smoothly and sustainably transition to zero-emission technologies has been convened by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT). Without a clear roadmap to help operators decarbonise longer distance services in more remote areas and the end of sale date for diesel buses not yet confirmed, the CPT is […]

A report from the County Councils Network (CCN) said rural bus services are at a ‘historic low’. CCN engaged public transport consultancy group SYSTRA in 2023 to undertake a review of English bus services and the impact of recent policy developments. The research, entitled ‘The State of County Buses: Recovering Services Post-Pandemic’, said the government’s […]