Drivers have rated the M42 as the worst motorway in England in a new survey from the independent watchdog, Transport Focus. The Strategic Roads User Survey asked more than 9,000 road users about their last journey on a motorway or major ‘A’ road managed by National Highways. Overall, 71% of road users were satisfied with their journey, […]
Nottingham City Transport (NCT) driver Tika Gurung, who was crowned NCT Driver of the Year in 2023, has thanked his employer and Nottinghamshire Police for their support following racial abuse he received in May this year. Tyler Reid (28), of St Michaels Avenue, Nottingham, boarded a bus with an out of date ticket and subjected […]
Women’s achievements in the bus, coach and community transport industry have been celebrated at a Women in Bus and Coach awards event today (8 October 2024). During the event, Local Transport Minister, Simon Lightwood, discussed Women in Bus and Coach’s key aims to stand in solidarity across the profession, uplift female role models in engineering, […]
Sustainable mobility, a great capacity for innovation and a strong presence on foreign markets are set to be the main themes of the International Bus and Coach Fair, FIAA 2024. Held at the IFEMA MADRID from 22 to 25 October, the organisers are emphasising the bus and coach industry’s full recovery. The employers’ association CONFEBUS, […]
A new Operations Manager is now in place at Stagecoach East’s Cambridge depot. Martin Marsh has now taken on the role at the Cambridge site, running services throughout the city and out to key locations such as Haverhill, Saffron Walden, Cambourne, Cottenham, Waterbeach and Fulbourn. Martin has previously been Interim Operations Manager at both Cambridge […]
Women in Bus and Coach in partnership with Stagecoach have unveiled a commemorative plaque to commemorate a trailblazing woman driver. The plaque is displayed at Winchester Bus Station and honours Mary Curry, one of the first two women to qualify as a professional bus driver for Hants & Dorset in 1973. The unveiling event paid […]
Transport Museum Wythall has staged an event commemorating 120 years since the formation of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company, better known as Midland Red, in 1904. B&CB’s Feature Writer, David Cole, attended the event and photographed an array of vehicles taking part in the gathering’s ‘Happy Hour’ parade. Click an image above to […]
A Bradford bus driver from First Bus has won an award at the National Transport Awards for preventing a boy from being snatched by a mystery man. David Copley’s quick thinking saved the boy from being snatched by a mystery man while he was driving in Bradford in October last year. Last year, David, who […]