A campaign has been launched urging community transport operators to mount a legal challenge against new Section 19 guidance. Mobility Matters aims to raise awareness of the CT sector and, ultimately, reverse the insistence of government that S19 and Community Bus Permit (S22) operators cannot run publicly tendered services and, in many circumstances, require unrestricted […]
BUSK, the organisation that campaigns for the safe transportation of school children on bus and coaches, has had its ‘Protecting Drivers and Pupils on the School Run’ course upgraded to a full day CPC course following its introduction at the end of last year as a half day module. Operators who want to know more […]
Big Lemon reports it is impressed with the Optare Solo EV electric single decker it has been trialling for the last month. The trial of the vehicle is followed by the news this week that the Brighton operator has been awarded government funding towards three new electric buses under the DfT’s low emission bus scheme. […]
Across the world, city authorities are taking measures to improve air quality on their streets and tackling public transport emissions. Among the easiest ways of making a meaningful difference in the short term is to encourage the use of electric propulsion by discouraging or banning diesel- and petrol-powered vehicles. And at the forefront of those […]
While we applaud the formation of Mobility Matters – full story in next week’s issue – to offer help to community transport organisations left high and dry by the DfT’s ‘new’ guidance, it is ridiculous to simultaneously pretend that it’s all to do with an ongoing Public Inquiry, that it will never happen, and that […]
Mellor is using the Busworld show at Kortrijk, Belgium, as a springboard for its entry into the mainland European market. The vehicle, which it believes will bridge the Channel, with appeal to a growing need for small buses, is the Strata lowfloor bus – a coachbuilt vehicle engineered with the oversight and approval of Mercedes-Benz which highlights […]
Chinese electric bus specialist BYD is predicting new vehicles for city bus fleets may be 100% electric as early as 2020. On a visit to the BYD headquarters in Shenzhen, the company’s CEO Wang Chuanfu told Bus & Coach Buyer that Chinese cities faced parallel problems; in the case of Shenzhen, with buses forming 2% […]
Sherburn-in-Elmet based Utopia Coaches has gone into liquidation. The company operated both school and local bus services under contract to North Yorkshire County Council, as well as providing a commercial bus network that was not subsidised by the council. Its services covered the towns of Selby, Pontefract, York, Drax and Tadcaster. According to press reports, […]