Jones Holidays has been recognised for its employees’ help during the lockdown with a Community Champion Award. Jones Holidays of North Wales has been through a difficult six months during the COVID-19 crisis, with unprecedented action having to be taken to cancel holidays through the summer of 2020. However, in March drivers from the North […]
Staffordshire County Council is ensuring extra bus seats are being laid on next month to help children back to school and commuters get to work. An additional 1,160 temporary places are being created on some of the busiest routes where commercial services with seat restrictions in place would not be able to carry all potential […]
An audit into the mapping of potholes in England has been launched. The survey is to be helped by data from on-road businesses such as Uber and Deliveroo. The Department for Transport will work with Gaist, a highway data and mapping company, businesses such as Deliveroo, Uber, Tesco and Ocado, alongside local highway authorities to […]
A notorious road in the Scottish Highlands where a coach was blown over over is due to have improvements made to it. An appraisal of eleven options to improve the resilience of the A83 Rest and Be Thankful is underway. The road is occasionally blocked due to landslides. The potential options are being considered as […]
Weston-super-Mare-based Bakers Dolphin is pleased to report it is now running trips and holidays again. At the end of July the company took passengers on a scenic day tour to the north-Devon coast, the firm’s first commercial outing since March. By the end of this month, a further 16 holidays will have been completed. Satisfied […]
DVSA staff are starting to wear body-worn cameras on roadside checks and site visits. The agency is investing in ‘bodycams’ for all frontline enforcement staff. The equipment is intended to reduce physical and verbal assaults, acting as a deterrent to such behaviour. The police have been wearing these cameras for a number of years in […]
An Optare MetroCity electric single-decker has returned to Go North East. The operator previously trialled the vehicle in July. The bus will be trialled on the Quaylink Q3 service alongside Newcastle’s Quayside and through the city centre. In October, Go North East plans to introduce the region’s first full-electric fleet of buses between Newcastle and […]
Low Emission Zones (LEZs) are due to be introduced across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen between February 2022 and May 2022. Plans to implement Low Emission Zones (LEZs) across the four cities were paused temporarily in May in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. They were expected to be introduced later this year. Due to the […]