CPT Scotland has welcomed the announcement today that Transport Scotland is extending NSG+ for the bus sector until 9 of October 2022. NSG + was introduced to help cover the difference between reduced revenue and increasing costs, largely due to the continuing impact of Covid-19. The £40m scheme was frontloaded to give support to the […]
Sustainability came to the fore in Sweden last week in presentations marking the completion of the introduction of Scania’s new generation bus, coach and chassis range. The renewal process started in 2019 when the Citywide LF was unveiled, followed by the Citywide LE and Interlink and now extending across the entire portfolio. It is not […]
A further £25.7 million is being made available to extend Covid recovery funding to the Scottish bus sector until October 2022. The Network Support Grant (NSG) Plus is a temporary scheme intended to support Scotland’s bus network as the country recovers from the pandemic. NSG Plus aims to support services and protect fares while patronage […]
Ben Werth has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer at Wrightbus. Ben will take up the role alongside his current position as Managing Director of Wrightbus’s sister company Fuze Finance. A former Director in charge of asset finance at bus and coach firm Mistral Group with more than 26 years’ experience in the bus industry, Ben […]
Brighton’s The Big Lemon has for the first time ever run a fully-zero-emission electric bus fleet on all its public bus routes. Even the operator’s staff shuttle is electric-powered. The operator almost hit a snag in rolling out the zero-emission fleet when a spring snapped on one of its buses. A new spring was ordered from […]
Oxford Bus Company has announced the frequency of its service to Gatwick Airport is returning to every hour. The luxury Airline coach service will increase its journeys to Gatwick Airport from Sunday 17 July due to increased passenger demand. It had previously increased its services to Heathrow Airport to every 30 minutes following the lifting […]
Electric bus manufacturer Arrival is now in a partnership with Enel X to test its zero-emission battery electric bus in Italy. The tests will be carried out by Enel X, Enel’s subsidiary dedicated to innovative products and services, on the basis of an analysis matrix developed in-house, to look at all the main features of […]
National Express is now operating coach services from Nottingham’s new Broad Marsh Bus Station. The operator will be operating around 400 services a week from the new location, with popular routes including London Victoria, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and frequent airport services to London Heathrow and London Luton. Passengers benefit from a range of […]