DVSA Chief Executive, Alastair Peoples, has opened the 500th Authorised Testing Facility (ATF) at Chatfields in County Durham. ATFs are privately owned businesses where a DVSA vehicle examiner carries out annual tests on lorries, buses and coaches. Around 93% of tests are now carried out at non-DVSA sites.
Reading Buses is to carry out a two week trial of the New Routemaster from 17 August. It will be in service on the flagship purple 17 route with a dedicated crew including a conductor. It forms part of the company’s summer bus trials, which are designed to look at new and different types of […]
PTEG (Passenger Transport Executives Group) has launched a plan it believes will put the city regions on a fast track to smart and simple public transport ticketing. It envisages this will look and feel more like London’s Oyster in terms of what it offers to passengers. The document sets out progress made so far in […]
Wrightbus built articulated buses used on Swansea’s ftrMetro service operated by First Cymru Buses are to be withdrawn from 1 September 2015. Replacing them on Service 4 will be newer vehicles that are better for the environment and more economical to operate. While the decision to withdraw the articulated buses is based on economic grounds, […]
The latest figures from the SMMT, The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, show that new bus and coach registrations have grown 17.2% to 4,679 units in the first six months of 2015, with a 32% growth for the month of June. SMMT Chief Executive Mike Hawes, said, ‘Demand for buses and coaches has seen […]
Once again held in Manchester, though this time in the University of Manchester’s Renold Building, The European Bus Forum 2015 was organised by Russell Publishing’s Eurotransport publication and hosted by Transport for Greater Manchester. With a dinner held the previous evening, it was both a networking opportunity and a chance to hear generally well presented […]
Andreas Renschler has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Board of Scania AB. Renschler is a member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG and Head of Volkswagen Truck & Bus GmbH, the holding company that coordinates the operations in the Group’s commercial vehicles companies. He has also held Board of Management […]
Stagecoach has opened Britain’s first privately funded bus park and ride in Greater Manchester. The £3m investment in Stockport sees the introduction of a new 400 space park and ride facility, which has a cycle hub part-funded through Transport for Greater Manchester. It will be served by a £12m fleet of 40 hybrid electric buses […]