North east operators make partnership case

North East Bus Operators Association (NEBOA) recently met with leaders of the North East Combined Authority (NECA) to outline partnership proposals they believe would deliver key improvements for passengers in the region and save taxpayers millions of pounds. Analysis of the Nexus plans conducted by independent economic consultants, Oxera, shows the Quality Contract Scheme (QCS) […]

Guide Dogs week events

Guide Dogs has delivered a petition to the government calling for audio visual (AV) technology to be installed on all new buses. Part of the charity’s ‘Talking Buses’ campaign, the petition gained 9,914 signatures supporting AV on buses. The petition was organised following a survey suggesting people who are blind and partially sighted are being […]

Skylink £1.5m investment

Loughborough based Kinchbus has invested £1.5m in eight new Mercedes-Benz Citaros for its Skylink service linking Derby, Loughborough and Leicester with East Midlands Airport. Adding the vehicles has enabled the introduction of a new timetable with buses running every 20 minutes Monday to Saturday and every half hour on Sundays. The buses are the UK’s […]

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