Transdev today announced it has signed an agreement to buy the West Yorkshire-based Yorkshire Tiger bus operations from Arriva UK Bus, with completion expected in the Summer. Today’s announcement will not affect local bus services and Arriva employees are set to transition over to Transdev as part of the sale agreement. Once complete, the sale […]
Organisers of the Innovation and Technology in Transport – ITT Hub, report exhibitor numbers to the event continue to rise. The exhibition supports the shift to net-zero for passenger and commercial fleets. The organisers say it is one of the UK’s first major business events to take place in more than a year, and the […]
Organisers of the Euro Bus Expo have postponed the event until 2022. The exhibition was originally scheduled for last year, but the affects of the pandemic meant it was rescheduled to take place later this year. It has now been put back to 1-3 November 2022, again due to the affects of Covid-19. The show […]
Travel product management service provider, 2020 Travel Partners, has secured a partnership with TJs Travel. It sees the new company provide the operator with bespoke, freelance travel product management services and create the operator’s first UK tour programme for 2021. Set up at the end of 2020 by ex-Shearings Holidays product managers Andrew Sowry and […]
AEC Routemasters are no longer operating on TfL heritage bus services in London. An answer to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request confirmed the AEC Routemasters on London’s 15H heritage route are no longer to operate. The 15H’s withdrawal follows the retirement of the 9H heritage route in 2014. The Stagecoach-operated heritage service on route […]
JustGo North Lincs, the demand-responsive transport (DRT) service connecting communities across North Lincolnshire, has added an extra bus to its fleet to increase capacity as Covid-19 restrictions ease. The on-demand service, operated by the Go-Ahead Group subsidiary East Yorkshire, in partnership with North Lincolnshire Council and technology provider Liftango, launched in September 2020. To meet […]
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has promised that if re-elected, her party will deliver a £120m investment in zero-emission buses. The pledge is part of the SNP’s proposed transport revolution. This would see a target to reduce the use of cars, measured as ‘car kilometres’, by 20% by 2030, alongside a £500m investment to improve bus […]
Having relaunched services after a cessation of operations due to the lockdown imposed in January, National Express reports that demand for coach travel is strong. In response, it has added routes and increased its timetable. A spokesperson from the company said: “We have added eight new routes to our timetable and increased the frequency of […]