The Mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, has committed to buy only zero-emission buses from 2025 and ensure that a major area of the city is zero emission by 2030. The policies are designed to fight air pollution, improve the quality of life for all citizens, and help take more climate action. The commitment builds on […]
CPT has published a short online survey on the five proposed Clean Air Zones and London’s ULEZ. The survey is designed to help the industry during its ongoing discussions with key decision makers regarding the clean air plans. The questionnaire will also provide CPT supplier members with information that should help them better understand the […]
Astons Coaches, the Worcester bus and coach operator, has taken over M&S Coaches of Hereford. M&S was started 25 years ago by Maurice and Sue Peruffo, who have decided to retire. All of the staff will remain within M&S and become part of the Astons Group. Maurice and Sue approached Astons in September 2017 about […]
Bristol Community Transport (BCT), part of the HCT Group, has been unveiled as the operator of Metrobus’s longest route. The operator is to run the m1 Metrobus route under contract to First West of England. It is to invest £7m in a fleet of 21 ADL bodied Scania biogas double-deckers running on gas generated from […]
Manchester’s Congestion Deal has been deemed “counter-productive”, according to Bus Users UK. Alarming the industry watchdog are plans in the Deal to allow car-sharers to use bus lanes. The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, launched the £240m Congestion Deal in an effort to tackle congestion across Greater Manchester. It is intended to enable public […]
The event will take place on Monday 16 April at 19:30 at the Hilton Garden Inn, Eastern Perimeter Road, Hatton Cross, London TW6 2SQ. Guests include Wrightsure, the main sponsor of the LTCOA, together with Yutong, the coach brand which is growing fast in the UK. Royale European Coaches of Hounslow, who are sponsoring the […]
This could have been anticipated but CTOs are in the care sector, not the transport sector, and should have been better advised by their supporting organisations. Instead, they were advised to do nothing, first of all on the basis that the DfT was prompted to act because of an ongoing DVSA action (which was not […]
We hear of various milestone years in business here at Bus and Coach Buyer; 25, 50 or for some, even 75. But Seaview Services’ 100 years is perhaps one of the rarest landmarks we have reported on, making it even more commendable. Such an occasion prompted Chris Peat to cross the rain-swept Solent to visit […]