TfL has introduced the ‘One More Journey’ facility for its Oyster cards one month early following a successful trial on around 500 buses operating on 60 routes in the capital. The development is intended to support the move to cash free bus travel, which is being introduced across the capital’s bus network from 6 July. […]
West Midlands transport authority, Centro, has installed 25 Real Time Information (RTI) screens at bus stops along the Warwick Road. The change benefits passengers on the 37 bus route, which connects Birmingham city centre with Solihull town centre. The first of the screens, which display a countdown to when the next bus will arrive, have […]
Xelabus of Eastleigh is to make what it describes as some ‘major changes’ to services from 23 June 2014. The popular X7 service between Eastleigh and Chandlers Ford is to double in frequency from hourly to every 30 minutes during the day. Its X3 service between Eastleigh and Asda will be diverted to serve Boyatt […]
Construction of Castleford’s new bus station has started. Being built on the site of its now demolished predecessor, it has been described as ‘state of the art’ by Metro, the West Yorkshire transport authority. Some diversions have been put in place to make way for the building work on the £6m redevelopment. Combined Authority Transport […]
Optare Plc has appointed Tim Matthews as its UK Retail Sales Manager, a role that will see him report to UK Sales Director, John Horn. Tim’s involvement in the bus industry began in 1993 with Autobus Classique, which was purchased by Optare in 1996. Tim was the manufacturing team’s Materials Manager, responsible for all purchasing […]
New annual crime figures from the Metropolitan Police Service and British Transport Police (BTP) show that crime on TfL’s transport system fell 11.3% compared to the year before. The figures cover 2013/14 (1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014). They show there are now 7.7 crimes per million passenger journeys on the transport system, down […]
On 5 June, the European Union’s Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council of Ministers reached agreement on revised weights and dimensions for commercial vehicles that will pave the way for a new 19.5 tonne GVW for two axle buses and coaches across Europe. It is being introduced so that they can benefit from existing environmental improvements […]
Winners of the National Express Operator Awards have been announced at the Windmill Village Hotel in Coventry. Gloucester based Bennett’s Coaches won the overall Network Operator of the Year and the High Achiever Award, E Stott & Sons won the Best Fleet Award, while Julia Humby, also of Bennett’s, won the Driver of the Year […]