New Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has vowed the government will do “everything we can” to ensure the future of Wrightbus. As reported last week (see B&CB 1540, 26 July 2019), Wrightbus is considering seeking new investors. The Ballymena, County Antrim-based manufacturer has drafted Deloitte to advise on this process. A statement from Wrights Group said: […]
Croydon Coaches (UK) Limited, trading as Coaches Excetera, is to have its licence revoked on 1 August 2019 following a written decision by Traffic Commissioner, Sarah Bell. Sirichai Trilertwong (former director) and Giampiero Mazza (director) are disqualified from holding or obtaining an Operator’s Licence or being involved in the management, administration or control of an […]
Gloucester-based Bennetts Coaches is the first company to achieve full marks in National Express’ monthly Operator Evaluation. The evaluation, which has been running since 2007, assesses each of the businesses that run services on behalf of National Express to ensure they are meeting its high standards. Scores are awarded across 18 measures including reliability and […]
Cynthia Ogbonna is standing down as Managing Director of Cardiff Bus. After seven years in this post and a total of 15 years’ service with the company, she is to leave at the end of the year. Cynthia said she is proud of the achievements of the team at Cardiff Bus over the past seven […]
It’s three months since the London Mayor’s ULEZ scheme kicked into action in the former Congestion Charging zone, so we asked whether coach operators are seeing a traffic dividend. On the face of it, extending the car charge to include weekends should have produced a dip in congestion as car drivers reconsider their transport choice, […]
B&CB has been made aware that Wrightbus is considering seeking new investors. According to Sky News, the County Antrim-based manufacturer has drafted Deloitte to advise on talks with potential investors. It reports turnaround funds have been approached to canvas their interest in ploughing tens of millions of pounds into the family-owned company. The news follows […]
Birmingham City Council has handed ‘the majority’ of its home-to-school transport services left high and dry by the collapse of the Accessible Transport Group (ATG) to a subsidiary of National Express. Starting in September, the services will be provided by West Midlands Accessible Transport Ltd, a subsidiary of National Express which, it is believed, will […]
The Confederation of Passenger Transport’s new Chief Executive, Graham Vidler, has written to Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy, asking for coaches to be included in support for ‘greening’ the capital. The letter, which was copied to Heidi Alexander, Deputy Mayor for Transport, seeks support for operators running bus services under […]