Fares on TfL services rose by 1% on 2 January, in line with the July 2015 Retail Price Index (RPI). However a number of fares, including single bus fares and all but two pay as you go single Tube fares, will be frozen. Travelcard season tickets will increase by slightly less than 1%. The changes […]
FirstBus has repainted a Wrightbus Gemini into the red and cream Huddersfield Corporation livery, last seen on the Yorkshire town’s routes in 1974. The vehicle has also been named after Fred Krigers, who joined the bus industry in the same year as a driver. He went on to complete over 40 years service before retiring […]
The London Borough of Redbridge and Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT UK) annual compliance event aimed primarily at local authority operators is being held on Wednesday February 17 from 08.30 to 15.00 (Conference 10.00-13.00). The event combines a practical conference session with an exhibition of equipment, particularly wheelchair accessible passenger vehicles and is […]
A number of people involved in the transport industry were recognised in the New Years Honours. Amongst them were Stephen Leonard Gooding, lately Director General, Roads, Traffic and Local Group, DfT and Clare Moriarty, lately Director General, Rail Executive, DfT, who both received a Companion of the Order of the Bath accolade for services to […]
Between Thursday 14 January and Sunday 17 January 2016, CPT has warned that a number of roads will be closed in London for the London Lumiere light show. Taking place around the West End and King’s Cross, it will mean full road closures will be in place from 16.30 to 23.30 each night. It affects […]
Torotrak Group and Wrightbus have completed the in-service trial of a Wrightbus StreetLite fitted with Torotrak’s Flybrid mechanical kinetic energy recovery system (KERS). The trial was conducted with Arriva on a standard route in Gillingham, Kent from March 2015. According to its manufacturer, the test successfully demonstrated the performance of the Flybrid KERS under real […]
Floods plagued many operations over the festive period. Press reports abounded about buses’ trials and tribulations during the challenging weather. One of the operators that faced adverse conditions on several fronts was Arriva’s Yorkshire Tiger, which experienced flooding in the vicinity of one of its depots and a damaging fire at another, According to its […]
DfT has announced the winners of funding for the fitment of technology to cut harmful emissions on 439 buses in England. The £7m of the Clean Bus Technology Fund 2015 has been distributed to 18 local authorities to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions in pollution hotspots. The money has been awarded to: Birmingham (Centro) (27 buses, […]