Sheffield City Region’s £29.8m Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) North scheme has been officially opened. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, Andrew Jones MP, attended the ceremony at the newly constructed ‘Blackburn Meadows Way’ link road under J34 of the M1. Delivered by South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE), Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and Sheffield […]
RATP Dev UK subsidiary, Yellow Buses, is to undergo what has been described as the ‘biggest transformation of its network in a decade’ next month. The Bournemouth based company is to introduce eight colour coded lines (Bourne, Priory, Uni, Royal, Village, Coast, Dolphin and Heath), which are intended to reflect its strong local connectivity and […]
The decline in bus use continues, according to the latest statistics from the DfT. In the year ending March 2016, there were an estimated 5.04bn bus passenger journeys in Great Britain, around two thirds of all public transport journeys. 4.53bn journeys were in England, of which over half were in London, decreasing 2.6% compared with […]
York’s iconic Minster provided an imposing backdrop to the launch of Transdev’s £2.34m investment in the Malton based Coastliner operation. Sparkling on a grey and damp afternoon were the first two of ten Volvo B5TL Wrightbus Gemini 3 vehicles in the new Coastliner livery, part of the branding package developed by Best Impressions to promote […]
UK Coach Awards (UKCA) is encouraging entries to its ‘Making Coaches a Better Choice’ category. This accolade recognises and rewards projects that improve life for coach operators, coach drivers and their passengers. UKCA Chairman, Allan Edmondson, said, ‘We’re very keen on this category: it is a vital aspect of our work to highlight excellence and […]
First Manchester has announced a proposal to move operations, including all drivers, from its Bury and Tameside locations to three of its other Manchester based depots. The relocation is part of a strategic review, which is intended to help put the business on a sounder footing and protect jobs in the long term. Its Bury […]
West Midlands’ ‘See Something, Say Something’ campaign on public transport has resulted in a prolific offender being sent back to prison. A customer on a 28 bus used the service to tell the authorities about two passengers who were openly taking drugs on an Erdington bus. Officers at the Safer Travel Partnership contacted National Express […]
Blackpool Transport has launched its ‘Love your Bus’ initiative. Adverts have been applied featuring images of local people who won a competition to be featured on the back of its buses. The ads have been placed on ten double deckers operating on various routes in the town. Sightings of the buses can be entered in […]