Stephensons of Essex has added five Alexander Dennis Enviro400s to its fleet. The new double-deckers each have 86 seats fitted with USB charging ports. They are the first on Alexander Dennis chassis for the operator, joining similar buses on third-party chassis as well as a large number of Enviro200 single-deckers in the operator’s 140-vehicle fleet. […]
Jason Edwards Travel has chosen Stertil-Koni’s mobile column lifts to enhance efficiency and safety at its new workshop near Heathrow. The supplied lifts consist of six Stertil-Koni ST1075FSA mobile columns with a combined lifting capacity of 30 tonnes. The columns feature the ebright Smart Control System, which allows engineers to operate the lifts either individually […]
Stagecoach East, Cambridgeshire County Council and Anglian Water have struck a deal to ensure a village is saved from isolation. The deal sees a shuttle-bus being run around a collapsed access road for the next two weeks to serve Farcet. Residents of Farcet had previously faced isolation before Christmas, until a shuttle-bus service was put […]
FlixBus is promoting Francesca Hand to the role of Senior Operations Manager. Originally from London, Francesca has a Master’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering and has acted as Operations Manager at FlixBus since October 2022. In her new role, Francesca will work alongside several of FlixBus’s operator partners, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services to passengers. […]
The RHA has asked the government to look again at the operation of the Clandestine Entrant Civil Penalty Scheme to make it fairer on drivers and operators. Richard Smith, RHA Managing Director, said: “We’re urging the Government to reform a penalty scheme which is seeing some transport operators and drivers unfairly penalised when ‘clandestine entrants’ […]
The founder of Kent coach operation The Kings Ferry, Peter O’Neill, has died aged 80. He took the company from one minibus to the area’s most significant operation, with 35 coaches on commuter services alone. The son of an Irish migrant, Peter’s first encounter with public transport was as a child, selling newspapers to bus […]
Metroline, part of multi-modal transport operator ComfortDelGro, has commenced operation of 232 bus services in Greater Manchester as part of the Bee Network. Metroline makes the move to Manchester after already operating 17% of London’s bus network. The operator says its expertise in operating a reliable bus service across both busy urban centres and quiet […]
2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Bus Users UK, the charity committed to improving access to transport. Set up in 1975 by Dr Caroline Cahm MBE, the organisation was formalised in the 1980s during bus deregulation and known as the National Federation of Bus Users. Its complaints handling service was officially launched in 1985 with […]