Plans to introduce 20mph speed limits in Abingdon have been put on hold after Oxford Bus Company said the measure would leave it with no option but to withdraw services. “This would make parts of our network unviable, and we would be left with no choice but to withdraw them” – Luke Marion, Oxford Bus […]
National Express is to provide transport for The Festival event at Cheltenham Racecourse to ease any travel disruption caused by rail strikes. The rail strikes announced by the RMT are set to include industrial action on Thursday 16 March, St Patrick’s Thursday at The Festival, as well as Saturday 18 March, the day after The […]
Plans for the franchising of Liverpool’s bus network could move forward with a possible consultation. Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotheram and the Combined Authority voted unanimously last year to confirm franchising as the Liverpool City Region’s preferred future model for running the bus network and services, joining Manchester in a similar move. […]
Birmingham-based Aziz Coach Service has invested in a further two Plaxton Leopards, built by NFI subsidiary Alexander Dennis at Scarborough.. The latest deliveries take the total number of Plaxton Leopard coaches in the Birmingham-based fleet to eight. The type makes up more than half of the fleet of the well-established family business, which was founded […]
Alexander Dennis worked with Dawsongroup to provide a pair of Alexander Dennis Enviro200 buses to Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on a rental solution. The two 8.9-metre Enviro200 have upgraded the Hospital Hopper service which provides a connection between the trust’s two hospitals in Surrey for staff, patients and visitors. With 30 […]
Localism is key at Robinson Kimbolton. Based in the rural Cambridgeshire town of Kimbolton, the coach operator is at the heart of its local community, not just providing coaches but also running the local repair and service garage and a Budgens grocery store. Proprietor Charles Robinson tells B&CB that the facility the company runs from […]
Prospective students attending the Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) applicant days at the Cambridge campus in March will be able to take advantage of free bus travel on Stagecoach East services. The bus operator has previously partnered with ARU Peterborough to provide prospective students with free bus travel during their open days and applicant days in […]
Ben Colson MBE is standing down as Chair of Bus Users UK after five and a half years in the role. Ben joined Bus Users in 2018 following an illustrious career in the UK bus industry. In 1996 he founded the Kings Lynn based Norfolk Green Bus Company, the only SME to receive the UK […]