Wales’ First Minister, Carwyn Jones, has launched a publicity campaign for a new Metro system for South Wales. The scheme is designed to implement a substantial increase in speed and frequency of public transport in the area, using a combination of heavy rail, light rail and bus rapid transit, as well as other infrastructure improvements […]
Prospect trade union members at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) are to strike every Friday indefinitely over a pay, terms and conditions dispute with management. As we went to press, no agreement had yet been reached over it. The industrial action will further disrupt frontline activities such as annual tests for heavy goods […]
Transdev has given a £400,000 makeover to its buses running between Keighley and Bradford, re-branding the service as The Shuttle. The 662 service’s revamp includes a new bright blue livery, with its 16 vehicles upgraded with USB charging points, Wi-Fi and re-upholstered seats. The buses have been refitted in house by Transdev’s engineering support unit […]
London’s ExCel Centre hosted Highways UK recently, an event bringing together those involved with planning, developing, maintaining and managing the country’s road network. Combining a series of conferences and an exhibition, the event gave Chris Peat an insight into some of the issues surrounding the highways and byways the bus and coach sector relies on. […]
Earlier in the year, Bus and Coach Buyer reported on the BUSFORUS App developed by Rise Digital Media and piloted by Metro, First Bus and Arriva in Leeds. Now the company has taken the system development a stage further to produce an onboard passenger information system using mobile data technology. Intended to make travel easier […]
Social media is great, isn’t it? If the kids are posting selfies from the back seat they might not annoy the driver so much, and some even say it is responsible for the low crime statistics on the basis that all those wannabe criminals out there are just too lazy to put the igadget down […]
Change is constant in today’s operating environment but recent events at Dews Coaches, based at Somersham in Cambridgeshire, mark a significant landmark for this third generation family run business. Simon Dew and his wife Debbie have been at the helm for some years now but Simon’s father, David, now 72, has voluntarily taken the decision […]
The arrival in Colchester this week of the first five of 17 new 11.5m Wrightbus Streetlite Max Micro Hybrid Door Forward buses is the second major investment First Essex has made in the town in recent months, coming close on the heels of the opening of a new depot. It is helping to transform an […]