Digital transport services provider, Passenger, has renewed its contract with its first customer, Yellow Buses. The new deal will see the two companies working together for another four years. Yellow Buses launched its first website with Passenger (then We are Base) in 2008. Since then, tens of thousands of bus users have used the YB […]
A general debate on the future of the coach industry is to be held by the Backbench Business Committee on 10 December. Held at 3pm in the Westminster Hall, the debate will be opened by Labour MP for Easington, Grahame Morris. The Labour MP has been rallying for support of the coach industry. A statement […]
ITT Hub (Innovation & Technology in Transport) has confirmed support from nine new exhibitors who will create a Government Hub, a high profile pavilion style stand in the heart of the exhibition hall. The dedicated area at the event will see individual stands integrated into a large networking hub for meetings and presentations for up […]
Arriva’s demand responsive service, ArrivaClick is to begin operating in Ebbsfleet, Kent from next week. Launching in partnership and funded by residential homebuilders Redrow and Henley Camland, landowner of Whitecliffe, Arriva will provide a new flexible bus service that can be booked when required, designed to provide flexible and cost-effective public transport with the convenience […]
Go North East has launched the region’s first electric bus fleet in the North East, which are capable of all-day service with a single overnight charge. The fleet of nine Yutong E10 single-deckers were purchased as part of a £3.7m joint-funded project from Go North East and the Government’s Ultra-Low Emission Bus Fund, following a […]
VDL’s newly-established UK company has released this video of its PSVAR-equipped coach work – this time testing a PLS Access wheelchair lift. Find out more by contacting VDL at: 7 Barkston Road Carlton Industrial Estate S71 3HU Barnsley Tel: +44 333 700 8999 Email: [email protected]
From the end of service on 9 January 2021, Arriva is planning to hand over the running and operation of its Cannock bus depot and all local routes operated from the site to D&G Bus. The decision was made following a review of the performance of the depot. Arriva’s Cannock depot has 29 services covering […]
A £300m investment in transforming bus services is one of the headline announcements in the Government’s Spending Review 2020. However, noticeably absent from the Review was any mention of coaches. Announced by Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, the bus investment is part of the Government’s support for the regeneration of towns and communities. The […]