A number of documents have been released by the EU regarding proposals to change Driver CPC. The main plans are that courses cannot be repeated within the five year period, one course must be specifically related to ‘Road Safety’ and e-learning may be recognised. There are also numerous minor post-implementation issues being clarified following the […]
Exterion Media has announced the winner of its Kids’ Wrapped Bus competition. Isla Thoms, aged 10, from Glasgow Gaelic School (Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu) was crowned the winner, seeing her design displayed on a First bus in Glasgow. Isla’s bus wrap design features the River Kelvin as well as other landmarks in the city, such as […]
Reading ‘Die Welt’ over breakfast on my way back from Nuremberg, I was alarmed by an article which implied that Germany was very close to running out of electricity during the last week of January. Like the UK, the country has made significant strides towards renewable energy options and its shift away from conventional and […]
Bus campaign group, Greener Journeys, has heralded what it calls a ‘bus renaissance’. It cites official Government figures showing passenger numbers have been growing in certain towns and cities, particularly more affluent parts of the south. It claims this is bucking the trend of long term decline across the UK as a whole. A new […]
Multi-operator tickets are available for 69% of bus trips, according to the latest National Fares Survey across Great Britain by the TAS Partnership. The figure varies by market, operating group and region. The National Fares Survey, published this week and covering fares gathered from October 2015, showed that multi-operator tickets are available for: 100% of […]
A full electric Volvo 7900E single decker direct from Gothenburg, Sweden, has arrived in Harrogate. It has a similar specification to the eight vehicles that will be entering service in 2018 with the Transdev Blazefield owned The Harrogate Bus Company. They are part funded by the Government’s Low Emission Bus Scheme. The £2.25m project being […]
Old Billingsgate, a grand repurposed Victorian fish market in London was again the venue for this year’s Transport Ticketing Global event. However, instead of fish the exhibition venue swam with key international players in ticketing for the transport sector. Chris Peat attended the second day of the two day event to bring you some of […]
Thamesdown Transport Ltd has been taken over by Go South Coast, part of the Go-Ahead Group. The decision to sell the municipal bus company to the national operator was taken at Swindon Borough Council’s Cabinet meeting on 1 February 2017. The deal is expected to ensure Thamesdown Transport has a sustainable future, according to the […]