Additional expenditure of up to £52.6m to support bus operators to maintain services during the coronavirus pandemic has been approved by the Scottish Government. The new funding, to cover expected loss of revenue between 9 November and 17 January, extends the support of up to £109.7m provided to increase bus services since June. Director for […]
Barcelona’s main public transport operator, the Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), has ordered eight hydrogen-powered 12m Caetano H2. City Gold buses. The H2. City Gold units will each be equipped with a Toyota fuel-cell and will offer a drive range over 400km with a capacity of 94 passengers. The low-floor buses will have three doors […]
Stagecoach South East has launched a campaign to encourage customers to ‘Tweet the Fleet’ if they spot something that is not up to scratch with the presentation of their bus. Katherine Jones, Operations Manager at the company’s Ashford bus depot, said: “We want to do something about it as quick as we can. Having a […]
Frank Ritchie of Go Coach Hire, Sevenoaks sadly passed away very suddenly on 4 October 2020. Having distinguished himself in various roles in the bus and coach industry over some 40 years, he had managed the daily operations at Go Coach Hire in Sevenoaks for the last seven years. An Aberdonian by birth he entered […]
Leeds’ planned Clean Air Zone (CAZ) is no longer required thanks to businesses switching to cleaner vehicles faster than expected, a joint review by Leeds City Council and central government has concluded. Senior councillors will discuss the conclusions and proposals to voluntarily introduce new air quality targets that go further than the national standards at […]
Stagecoach East is to make changes in Cambridge and on the area’s Busway to meet growing demand. The key changes will include the introduction of a new C route, which will run every ten minutes at peak times, increasing the frequency of the Busway network to every five minutes between St Ives Park and Ride […]
A Honk for Hope rally has been held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It saw 60 coaches from operators in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Teesside meet at Washington Services Northbound on the A1. The convoy then travelled through Low Fell and Gateshead into the centre of Newcastle where the vehicles did a circuit of the […]
A petition calling for the removal of recent temporary traffic measures that are creating congestion has reached 10,000 signatures within two days of launching. Having reached this landmark, the petition is now due for a response from the Government. The petition says road closures, ‘school streets’ and new cycle lanes are creating severe congestion, long […]