Coaches parking in Canterbury have been getting a rude awakening from council wardens, who have been issuing £200 fines for not displaying ‘No Smoking’ signs. By law, all coaches and buses need to have the ‘No smoking’ signs displayed where all passengers will see them – typically as window or seat stickers. Canterbury City Council […]

Plans for Cardiff’s new bus station have been put on hold after the developer claimed the offices and flat which are part of the scheme may not be viable. The original plans included private flats and office space near the entrance to Cardiff Railway Station but developer Rightacres now says that, as a minimum, the […]

So much is happening within the Irizar Group these days that regular visits to Spain are required in order to keep up with them. No longer is it just a case of taking in the main factory at Ormaiztegi, there is the integral mechanisation facility too, and this time journalists were the first to be […]

Mark Self has dropped me a line, after reading our ULEZ/CAZ extravaganza, highlighting the machinations of operators over the route to Euro 6. Aiming leftfield, Mark points out that, while diesel cars now garner the kind of reaction once reserved for dog mess, their petrol equivalents are regarded as ‘clean,’ simply because NOx and particulate […]

It took me a few years to work out that the best way to get around central London is the bus. The tipping point was travelling home from King’s Cross with an Underground worker, who was dressed in cycling garb. ‘Surely you get free Tube travel?’ I asked. ‘Yes, but I don’t use it; it’s […]

A series of recommendations intended to make London’s buses safer have been outlined in a report by the London Assembly Transport Committee. Entitled “Driven to Distraction”, it said that in 2015 and 2016, 25 people were killed on, or by, buses. Over two thirds of those killed were pedestrians. Nearly 12,000 others were injured onboard […]

Amsterdam has alerted coach operators that a ban is now in force on coaches using some roads in the city centre. The affected routes are Amstel-Rokin-Damrak and the southern part of the Spuistraat/ Nieuwezjids Voorburgwal, in the inner city area. These pass, among other attractions, the Amsterdam Dungeon, Madame Tussauds, Amsterdam Museum and the Sex […]

The winners of the IRTE Skills Challenge were crowned in a ceremony at the Williams F1 conference centre in Oxfordshire on July 13. The awards ceremony was the conclusion of a competition involving twenty-five teams designed to find the best bus and coach technicians in the UK. A total of 28 awards were given out […]