BYD Europe and ADL are to upgrade their Enviro200EV with ADL’s new electric bus heating system. The pair will also be optimising the vehicle layouts. The BYD ADL partnership is to upgrade the Enviro200EV single decker to the new vehicle lengths of 10.9m (replacing the current 10.8m model) and 11.6m (offering two extra seats over […]
South Wales community transport operator, DANSA, has been given until the New Year to convert its entire operation to O licensing. Traffic Commissioner Nick Jones has told the CTO that running Section 19 and 22 permits alongside O licences is not possible. DANSA appears from records to have four O licences: ‘There has been a […]
Irizar has started work on the development of a new site at Blyth, just off the A1 in Nottinghamshire. This is the first phase in the construction of Irizar UK’s new headquarters. The news comes as Irizar Group celebrates 130 years of transport and engineering heritage. The first phase of development will see the construction […]
A survey of nearly 1,400 ArrivaClick customers in Merseyside has found the service is encouraging more people to swap cars and taxis for public transport. ArrivaClick is an on-demand minibus service that responds to customer demand through an app. It was launched as a pilot in Sittingbourne, Kent, in 2017. Services have been extended to […]
Arriva Bus & Coach is planning a workshop expansion and more than doubling its service team at its satellite aftersales unit in Wellingborough. The site – which was once the HQ for Van Hool – has been an unsung hero of the operation for many years, with much easier access from the Midlands and southern […]
The Confederation of Passenger Transport has warned that, if the UK exits the EU without a deal on 31 October, severe disruption of Channel-bound traffic is likely. “The most up to date estimates currently modelled by the Border Delivery Group are that during the first three weeks after a no-deal BREXIT the flow of HGVs […]
I see that Newcastle’s promising start to setting an agenda for a Clean Air Zone has collapsed into weak-kneed populism. The initial idea was to stifle car use with a congestion charge and/or bridge tolls but after the consultation encouraged 19,000 angry responses from car drivers, the spineless local authority has caved in, thereby ensuring […]
For most coach operators and indeed bus operators who hire buses to groups, the words ‘private hire’ cover a whole range of business, which presents itself as an opportunity to either fill in gaps around the bread and butter contract business, or as an enterprise. But what exactly is ‘private hire’? The dictionary definition is:- […]