Stagecoach’s ‘Pledge to help’… Stagecoach has launched a new initiative to provide further support for bus passengers and staff with mental health conditions across the UK. The operator’s ‘Pledge to help’ scheme aims to improve the experiences of employees and customers with mental health problems, including enhanced training and awareness programmes and additional support for employees. […]
Go-Ahead owned Go North East has contributed towards a £17m project to build a 1950’s ‘Northern General’ bus depot at the Beamish museum where it is a Business Friend. The new bus depot will bear the firm’s original company name, Northern, which is still used today as a brand on some of its buses in the […]
It was purely coincidence that just six weeks before the EU referendum, the 2016 ALBUM conference was held outside of the EU on the Isle of Man, planning for it having commenced well in advance of the 2015 election which initiated the referendum process. The self governing Crown Dependency does not form part of the […]
Optare’s 11.1m Metrodecker demonstrator has been delivered to New Adventure Travel (NAT Group) for the start of a trial in Cardiff. The operator recently acquired a further ten Optare Metrocity buses following what was described as ‘excellent’ in service fuel economy results. This takes the number of Metrocitys ordered by NAT Group to 30 in the last […]
Transdev and FirstBus in Leeds have teamed up to offer a ‘£1 add on’ ticket for destinations in the Leeds city area for customers heading into Leeds from Ripon and Harrogate. The companies have joined forces so customers on Transdev’s ‘the 36’, which serves Ripon, Harrogate, Leeds, can now buy one ticket onboard that will […]
Travel de Courcey has launched 21 buses retrofitted with micro-hybrid systems onto its urban route network in Coventry. The technology was installed in the MCV Evolution bodied MAN vehicles following a £404,000 grant from the DfT Clean Vehicle Technology Fund after an application submitted by Centro, the delivery arm of the West Midlands Integrated Transport […]
Local Enterprise Partnerships, or LEPs as they are more frequently referred to, are a fairly new initiative, announced by the Government in June 2010. LEPs were established by the Coalition Government to replace the Regional Development Agencies. They are made up of local authorities and businesses with the specific aim to promote economic growth and […]
The APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) event is held every Spring at Colyumbridge, near Aviemore in Scotland. It attracts professional transport people employed by Scottish and North English local authorities and the contractors that work for them. As a result it has become very popular with producers of wheelchair assessable minibuses and this year […]