75% of bus users rate the overall quality of their local service as ‘very good’ or ‘fairly good’, according to a new report from the DfT. Entitled ‘Public Attitudes to Buses: Great Britain, March 2013’, the study showed 45% of non-users rated local services positively. Non-users consisted of 61% of the overall respondents. Number of […]
Trading in the third quarter of 2013 improved across National Express Group. Revenue grew 5% in the quarter and 3% in the year to date. In the company’s UK Bus business, like-for-like commercial revenue went up 3% in the third quarter, with passenger numbers 2% higher. An ‘exceptional’ performance was reported in its UK Coach […]
Record bus passengers were reported on the capital’s bus network during last week’s stormy weather. 30% more passengers boarded London’s buses between 16.00 and 19.00 than on a normal Monday during the extreme weather conditions on 28 October. The bus network carried 7.54m passengers, the highest number of journeys ever recorded in one day. This […]
Former TfL Director, Clare Kavanagh, has been appointed Service Development Director at Stagecoach Group’s UK Bus division, making her a member of the company’s UK Bus Board. For the past 12 years, Clare has been TfL’s Director of Performance, Surface Transport, with responsibility for the strategic development of the capital’s bus network. In her new […]
Malc Collins of Selby has taken delivery of a Volkswagen Crafter CR 50 Excel minicoach conversion. It has 16 high back seats, luggage racks, forced air, reading lights, velour trim, LED lighting, panoramic windows, a full body kit and a coach rear. This is the sixth vehicle he has purchased from the supplier, Excel Conversions. […]
National Express Group CEO, Dean Finch, joined Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street to help officially announce the first 50 companies signing up to a flagship policy, encouraging UK businesses to support the Armed Forces. The operator has been chosen thanks to a wide-ranging military support package rolled out across its UK coach, […]
Springwood, Huddersfield based KS Travel has entered liquidation. A general meeting of shareholders of the company was held on 15 October 2013, which saw the decision made to wind up the company and to appoint Redman Nichols Butler as liquidators. The company was established by its Director, Kalwant Singh and commenced trading in September 2002. […]
Bus and coach operations were amongst those affected by the recent stormy weather. Alongside power cuts, disruption, property damage and regrettably, deaths, the hurricane strength winds of the St Jude’s storm also upturned a Beestons double decker in Suffolk. There were reports of a Wrightbus Gemini 2 narrowly missing serious damage in Green Lanes, London […]