A new £5.3m integrated transport hub in Port Talbot featuring six bus bays has been given the green light by Welsh Assembly Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure, Ken Skates AM. Located adjacent to the recently rebuilt Parkway station in the town, it is being jointly funded by the Welsh Government (£2.7m) and the European […]
Schools and community groups are set to benefit from £2m for minibuses. The money is from the second round of the community minibus fund, which has recently been launched by Transport Minister, Andrew Jones. The first round of the fund has already been allocated to over 300 charities and community groups across England. It will […]
Cardiff Bus has announced it will be launching new night buses on some of its routes from 18 September. They will operate hourly on route 18 seven days a week, linking Canton, Ely and Caerau with the city centre. The operator will also be running night buses for service 38 on Thursday night to Friday […]
Communities Secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced the government has decided to end discussions on plans for the devolution of the north east of England. In November, the North East Combined Authority (NECA) signed a proposed devolution agreement with the Government to drive economic growth and bring jobs and investment to the north east. The devolution […]
François-Xavier Perin, Chairman of the Executive Board at RATP Dev, is to retire on 1 January 2017. RATP Dev’s Supervisory Board has appointed Laurence Batlle to take over from him. Laurence will also become a member of the Executive Board of the RATP Group on 1 January 2017. She is currently Executive Vice-President Africa America […]
RATP Group has announced its financial results for 12 months to 30 June 2016. Group consolidated revenue amounted to €2,797m/£2359.89m at 30 June 2016, a slight contraction of 1% compared to 30 June 2015. Revenue generated by subsidiaries (including RATP Dev) amounted to €578m/£487.67m, a 1.6% increase, despite an adverse exchange rate effect. Subsidiaries now […]
The official launch of a fleet of 51 new ADL bodied BYD e-Bus fully electric buses for use on TfL services 507 and 521 took place at Go-Ahead London’s Waterloo depot last Friday, though the first of them had already been on the road for a little over a week by this time. It marked […]
Buses are ‘under threat’ from growing congestion on Britain’s roads, according to research commissioned by Greener Journeys. The research suggests that journey times are rising on bus services and passengers are forced to seek alternative modes of transport. The first part of the study, ‘The Impact of Congestion on Bus Passengers’, by Professor David Begg, […]