Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has unveiled new measures TfL is introducing to ease traffic in the capital and minimise disruption on the city’s roads. Trials of new technology are to be carried out, including a new generation of digital road signs providing people with real-time information on journeys using major routes into London. They […]
There wasn’t room in last week’s Coach & Bus Live 2015 review to more than scratch the surface of the information revealed at a press conference on the ADL stand, who pre-empted the event with a major announcement about their new Enviro400H City bus before staging their customary ‘state of the nation’ media briefing at […]
Edinburgh based Duddingston Private Hire has taken delivery of its second Noone Turas. A new Iveco 70C17 based 29 seat Turas 700 joins a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter based Turas 500 with 16 seats and two tables. Both vehicles are fully air conditioned with double glazing and large luggage capacity. The new Turas 700 was supplied by […]
Bath Bus Company, part of the RATP Group, has taken delivery of two new Volvo B5TL double deckers, the company’s first Euro6 vehicles. Featuring UNVI Urbis 25 bodywork with half canopy upper deck for sightseeing, the buses have a passenger capacity of 79. They will be deployed on tourist routes throughout the World Heritage City […]
Penrith based K&B Travel has added a Mercedes-Benz Tourismo to its fleet. Built to Touring Plus specification, the coach has 49 seats in part-leather fabric, Luxline upholstery, dual 19inch LCD monitors, air conditioning with overhead service controls and Wi-Fi, as well as a centre toilet and onboard kitchen with hot water boiler. Power is delivered […]
Jewels Tours of Gravesend, Kent has added a third Scania to its fleet. The new coach has an Irizar i6 body based on the Scania K 440 EB6x2*4 chassis with Scania’s fully automated Opticruise gear selection system. It has 53 upgraded PB seats fitted in its 12.9m body with tables, nets and multi-position footrests. The […]
TfL has taken on a record number of new graduate trainees. The 168 university leavers and ‘Year in Industry’ students are working across 19 schemes, ranging from quantity surveying, engineering, software development, information management, finance and transport planning. The ‘Year in Industry’ students are on a 12 month placement before returning to their final year […]
If you visited Coach and Bus Live, you will know the exhibition halls were packed with not only the latest vehicles in the industry, but swathes of new products and technologies. Chris Peat toured the stands to bring news of what was displayed. Drivers and booking agencies Promoting its network of professional coach, minibus and […]