John Pockett, CPT’s long-serving Director for Wales, is to retire at the end of the year. John, who turned 68 in August, has held the post since it was created in 2000 following the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales. During his time as Director, he has worked with eleven CPT Wales chairmen and […]
Transdev is trialling a BYD ADL Enviro200EV on one of its most popular bus routes. The bus is being tested on subsidiary The Harrogate Bus Company’s route 1 linking Harrogate and Knaresborough. Since 2018, the operator already has eight opportunity-charged electric buses running in Harrogate. At the time of their introduction, the company was the […]
Stagecoach today (9 October) marks 40 years of serving its communities and connecting people across the UK. Sir Brian Souter and his sister, Dame Ann Gloag, founded Stagecoach in 1980, and over the past four decades Stagecoach has rolled out its services in the UK and around the world including New Zealand, North America and […]
Britain’s forward looking bus companies were last week reporting fare-paying passenger levels back to an average of 60% of pre coronavirus levels. A survey of members of the Ten Per Cent Club gave results ranging from 46% to 74% across the country on commercial services excluding concessionary travel. Concessionary travel on commercial services has recovered […]
Go-Ahead-owned Brighton and Hove Buses has received the first of 24 ADL Enviro400ERs. These new double-deckers are extended range electric buses and are set to run in zero-emissions mode every time they enter the city’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), a practice called geofencing. The bus also goes into zero-emissions mode whenever it stops. The […]
“As Covid-19 continues to impact the health and wellbeing of our country and our economy, attention is rightly focusing on how we can avoid a further terrible toll from a virus that has already seen the loss of close to 60,000 people in the UK. It is a terrible human cost and one that is […]
For driving safely with optimal traction, even on damp or icy roads, Continental recommends fitting buses with winter tyres on steer and drive axles for the cold winter season. Identified by the snowflake symbol on the tyre sidewall, Continental says its dedicated winter tyre portfolio easily outperforms M+S tyres and also significantly exceeds the requirements […]
First’s West of England operating area is the latest to benefit from Tap & Cap technology. ‘Tap & Cap’ is a paperless system that means bus users can pay for their journey without having to ask or wait for a ticket: they just tap their contactless card or device on the ticket machine’s contactless card […]