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 […]
Experienced Go-Ahead bus drivers have travelled from across Britain to take part in Sunday’s Bee Network bus launch in Manchester. Yellow-branded Bee Network buses will begin on Sunday morning on 50 routes in and around Bolton and Wigan, the first stage in Greater Manchester’s franchised bus network. Go North West has borrowed 85 drivers from […]
Cumbria-based Mountain Goat Tours has been crowned Sightseeing Operator of the Year in the UKinbound Awards for Excellence. UKinbound is a trade association that represents the interests of the UK’s inbound tourism industry. Its annual Awards for Excellence Gala Dinner saw awards presented in front of 350 tourism and hospitality professionals at Belfast City Hall. […]
Journeys made on transport technology specialist Flix‘s services has risen dramatically since last year, according to its half-year figures for the first six months of 2023. From January until the end of June 2023, more than 36 million passengers worldwide travelled with FlixBus, FlixTrain, Greyhound, and Kamil Koç, equivalent to a 53% increase versus 2022. […]
Rural areas are set to benefit from the Scottish government’s Community Bus Fund. The Fund is designed to support local transport authorities to explore the options for bus services set out in the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019, and improve public transport in their areas. More than £5 million is being made available as part of […]
Jonathan and Ruth Joplin bought the small coaching operation of Peelings Coaches in 1990 when it had already been trading for 67 years. 33 years on, the family is celebrating the centenary and Stuart Jones went along to join in. When Charles Peeling started running buses on market day services, in 1923, the economy of […]