Arriva has announced that it has signed a new ten-year contract to serve Bratislava in Slovakia with suburban bus transport. Operations begin on 15 November and will include 220 new buses, with 120 of those delivered for the start of the contract and the remaining 100 buses delivered by May 2022. Arriva is also creating […]
Go-Ahead Group has signed a contract to buy its first hydrogen powered buses, as part of a deal which could become the largest of its kind in Europe. Go-Ahead-owned Brighton & Hove and Metrobus has ordered 20 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles from Wrightbus. The buses will be for use on the Fastway routes in the […]
The Welsh Traffic Commissioner, Victoria Davies, has rebuked a council for failing to plan to cover the services of a failing operator. Globe Coaches had been called to a public inquiry on 29 September after a maintenance investigation in March which discovered multiple failings on inspections, a safety defect and almost half vehicles failing MoT, […]
Campaign for Better Transport is calling for more to be done to deliver a zero-emission bus fleet. It notes that since the Government’s commitment in February 2020 to deliver 4,000 zero-emission buses, only around 50 to 100 are on the road. Of the 38,000 buses nationally, only 12% of the fleet are hybrid and 2% […]
Irizar has handed over two electric buses in for Bulgaria‘s first electro-mobility project. The 12m and 18m electric buses have been handed over to BurgasBus in Burgas, Bulgaria’s fourth largest city. They are the first of 34 12m units and ten 18m buses, which are being delivered in addition to 44 interoperable ECI-10 chargers from […]
Hosted by Go North West and staged at the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester (MoTGM), the event provided an opportunity to look closely at the BYD ADL Enviro 400EV electric double-decker that is the focal point of the SSE and partners tour that was due to conclude in Glasgow ready for participation in COP26 events. […]
FlixBus is pricing one-way tickets from 99p on domestic destinations for journeys between 6 November and 15 December. Discounted tickets can be found on routes covering England, Wales and Scotland. There are close to 30 cities in the network, including London, Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Leicester and Sheffield. FlixBus has added direct […]
Snam, Toyota and CaetanoBus have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), with the aim of starting a wide-ranging collaboration to promote and accelerate the introduction of hydrogen-based mobility. The agreement sees the companies join forces and know-how to explore and develop projects aimed at promoting, enabling and accelerating the introduction of hydrogen mobility, both for […]