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 […]
Exhibitors from across the globe are to descend upon Kortrijk, Belgium (or Courtrai if you are following the signs through France) on 16 to 21 October for Busworld Kortrijk 2015. The bi-annual event will see hundreds of displays, many of which are applicable to the UK market. Here we have a run down of a […]
A year on and all the key players in that market have refined their ideas and brought their new models to the market place. There were also some completely new vehicles in the sector to liven things up. It was arguably the most vibrant sector at the Show. As anticipated the main player in the […]
A new look £1m bus station and cycle hub has opened in Leigh, Greater Manchester. The facility is a key part of the bus priority package currently being introduced in the region. It is to serve as a terminus for guided busway services linking passengers with Leigh, Atherton and Tyldesley, Salford and Manchester city centre […]
Senior traffic police officers from all over Europe have called for better protection of vulnerable road users at the recent conference of TISPOL, the European Traffic Police Network. Attendees also urged greater efforts to rid Europe’s roads of the most dangerous drivers. Another message at the conference was that road safety targets are a good […]
UK transport infrastructure investment is projected to increase at an average annual rate of about 5% between 2014 and 2025, according to analysis by multinational professional services network, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Rail infrastructure and airports investment is expected to almost double by 2025, with growth rates of over 6% per annum respectively. Investment in sea ports […]