The Green Bus is withdrawing home-to-school services during the forthcoming academic year. B&CB has been shown a letter to the operator’s customers saying it came to the ‘difficult decision’ as the cost of running the service exceeds the income it receives. It cites a 38.1% increase in its motor insurance premium from 1 August that […]
Representatives from First Bus and City of York Council have ‘switched on’ a new fleet of zero-emission buses. For use in York, the buses are transforming the operator’s depot into one of the first outside London to be fully electric. The vehicles herald a new ‘York Electric’ branding, the first of which are now operating […]
Carousel Bus’ PickMeUp demand responsive transport (DRT) service in the Wycombe area is expanding. The service’s catchment area is being expanded to include Flackwell Heath. Funded by a three-year central Government Rural Mobility Fund Grant, the service runs from Monday to Friday from 6am to 7pm. Mercedes-Benz-based Sprinter conversions by EVM are currently used on the […]
A bus fire on Lime Street in Liverpool is being treated as suspected arson. A Stagecoach bus caught fire on the evening of 25 August in the city centre. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service had three fire engines on the scene at 6.33pm. Firefighters left the scene at 8.15pm, with the flames extinguished. On arrival, crews […]
National Express is adding 15,000 extra seats on its services this bank holiday weekend (26 – 28 August). The company says it is helping keep the country moving over the weekend as rail strikes are planned. National Express is increasing capacity on its popular intercity routes to meet demand, including services to and from London […]
Lothian has recorded over 100,000 ‘taps’ in one day using its capped contactless payment method, ‘TapTapCap’. The contactless system, which Lothian introduced in 2019, reached the milestone for the first time on Friday 18 August, 14 days in to the Edinburgh Festival season, which traditionally sees the population of the city increase in size. The […]
Bus drivers in Reading are set to benefit from what has been described as a ‘substantial’ 8% pay increase this October. The deal for the approximate 500 employees at Reading Buses is said to have been agreed by the company in ‘record time.’ While the majority of employees are bus drivers, who can expect to […]
Work to transform the First Bus depot in Bramley, Leeds with the capacity to operate a fully electric fleet gets underway this week. Contractors from Envevo have arrived on site and started preparations to install the power charging and infrastructure to handle the arrival of zero-emission buses, with vehicle deliveries expected to start in January. […]