Northern Ireland’s Infrastructure Minister, Nichola Mallon, has unveiled the first of 80 electric double-deckers due to be in passenger service in spring 2022. The vehicles are part of her £74million investment for 100 zero-emission buses, which also includes 20 hydrogen-fuelled buses and a programme of associated infrastructure works. The announcement follows Mallon’s announcement of funding […]
Peter Hogg of Jedburgh has won best small coach operator at the Scottish Business Awards. Director, Annie Hogg, told Bus and Coach Buyer: “We are very excited to win; we are really chuffed. We have worked really hard and our drivers have been very good, very customer friendly.” The operator was nominated in 2019 for […]
The need to provide a PSVAR-equipped vehicle on any school service on which separate fares are charged as well as all rail replacement work is causing operators up and down the UK a major headache. The Mercedes-Benz answer is a coach that has all the essentials but few of the non-essentials at a price as […]
Wheely-Safe has signed a new agreement with Ardee Coach Trim for the transport solutions business to become its official distribution partner in Ireland. Ardee Coach Trim will supply Wheely-Safe’s latest generation of intelligent tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS), wheel loss and wheel rim temperature sensors to OEMs and operator fleets across both the Republic of […]
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% […]