Peterborough has been named the most car dependent city in England, according to a study by the Campaign for Better Transport. Colchester and Milton Keynes were the next on the list as the hardest places in the country to live without a car. Meanwhile, London, Manchester and Liverpool have emerged as the easiest. The new […]
Passenger numbers on Stagecoach’s buses have continued to grow, according to the company’s interim results for the six months ended 31 October 2014. At Group level, revenue was up to £1,545m (2013: 1,473.9m) during the period. Its total operating profit was £123.5m (2013: £120.1m), whilst earnings per share before intangible asset expenses and exceptional items […]
Eddie Brown Tours of Wetherby, Yorkshire, has advised North Yorkshire County Council that it can no longer operate several contracted local bus services. The announcement was made with immediate affect on 9 December 2014. The services included four school services and bus routes 56, 56A, 57, 57A, 58, 142 and 143. The school services have […]
Johnsons Coach & Bus Travel of Henley-in-Arden has agreed to acquire the Whittle’s coaching division from Hull based EYMS Group. The sale is scheduled to be completed by around 10 January 2015 after EYMS took the decision to sell or close the Kidderminster based Whittle Coach & Bus Ltd subsidiary in October. The agreement secures […]
Western Greyhound has announced the sale of the rest of its business following last week’s sale of its Liskeard outstation operation to Go-Ahead subsidiary, Plymouth CityBus. Michael Bishop, an entrepreneur from within the bus and coach industry, has purchased the entire share capital of Western Greyhound from its MD, Mark Howarth, his wife Mari and […]
A partnership agreement between The City of York Council and First has provided free wi-fi across a number of the city’s services, including all of its park and ride routes. Forty seven of First York’s vehicles have been fitted with the free wi-fi thanks to a grant of £320k awarded to the council by the […]
I first wrote about John Bruce around 30 years ago when Bruce’s of Airdrie was in its early years. In July of last year John invited me to visit him in Scotland to talk about the company. It specialises in high mileage contract work and had just invested £400,000 in a new Van Hool TX17 […]
Oral evidence sessions into the proposed Quality Contract Scheme (QCS) for the north east’s bus network are to be held by the Quality Contract Scheme (QCS) board in March and April 2015. Chair of the Quality Contract Scheme (QCS) board, Kevin Rooney, indicated that the complexity of the North East Quality Scheme, the changes to […]