Optare has supplied a specially customised Solo to London Transport Museum’s new children’s play zone. The All Aboard area at the Covent Garden based museum allows kids to play on a mini fleet of vehicles and dress up in uniforms to become drivers, mechanics, cleaners, station announcers and riverboat captains. It has been designed for […]

£186m has been announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Transport Secretary to create new major roads for Manchester Airport and Morpeth. The works linking the A6 to Manchester Airport and from the A1 at Morpeth into Northumberland are intended to improve two major northern routes and boost economic growth in the region. £165m […]

Sheffield Bus Partnership partners are making themselves available for comments from passengers in a series of events in the Sheffield area. Representatives from Stagecoach in Sheffield, First South Yorkshire, Sheffield Community Transport, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and Sheffield City Council will be available at drop-in events. The sessions will be taking place until 16 […]

Abellio Surrey has extended the use of its ‘Oyster Match’ ticket to Kingston and Esher. The ticket is already proving highly popular with users of Abellio Surrey’s 458 and 459 services between the two places. Statistics show that over the same weeks this year compared to 2014, Oyster Match tickets nearly trebled on the 458 […]

West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, David Jamieson, is calling for London style banning orders for persistent criminal offenders on the region’s public transport network. Currently, transport authorities in the West Midlands have to apply for separate injunctions for each local authority. This means a criminal could be banned from using buses in Walsall but […]

Thanks in no small part to coverage from local radio and newspapers in the area, what was conceived as a Bristol Lodekka running day turned into something on a rather larger scale with an array of 15 buses and coaches of local interest providing thousands of free rides on four services around the streets of […]

Paris based international transport providers, RATP Group’s financial results for 2014 showed group revenue increased by 3.4% from 2013 to €5,257m/£3,845.5m in 2014. The Group’s subsidiaries’ contribution to revenue rose by 13.7% amounting to €914m/£668.4m, 17.4% of the Group’s overall revenue, a tripling over the past six years. Earnings remained consistently high and stable at […]

Euro6 engine emission regulations are extremely stringent and complying with them has cost the engine manufacturers billions. One of the reasons for this is because politicians have been disappointed that the results obtained by bench testing earlier generation engines to satisfy previous regulations have not been equalled in everyday operation. Chris Peat talks to manufacturers […]