A new rapid bus network for Bristol will be built after the DfT announced £34m funding towards the £45m project. The scheme is expected to bring better bus connections between key areas of employment, housing, retail and leisure in the city. It is envisaged the network will tackle traffic congestion, help create regeneration and support […]

SJ. Remind me about your background in the industry? BD. From BAE, with whom I spent ten years on aircraft, I joined Walter Alexander in 1996 as Materials Supply Director. Within a year I was Production Director running all the manufacturing. In 1998 I was asked to go and rescue a Mayflower business in the […]

Alton Towers Resort will once again host the UK Coach Rally, which returns in 2015 on 18 and 19 April. The weekend event starts on Saturday morning with the road run. On return to Alton Towers Resort, all drivers continue on to the driving tests, which carry on into the afternoon. The day concludes with […]

First Bus drivers were ranked first, second and third in the finals of the Bus Driver of the Year 2014 competition held at Blackpool recently. The ‘clean sweep’ is thought to be the first of its kind in the competition’s 48 year history. Around 120 drivers from across the UK competed in the event. Winning […]

Tony Martyn has been appointed as Engineering Director of Wrightbus. In his new role, Tony is to lead the Wrightbus Engineering team in Ballymena, reporting to Group Engineering Director, Brian Maybin. A key objective is to keep the Wrightbus product offering at the forefront of technological advancement, offering the customer continually enhanced passenger experience and […]

National Express and the Highways Agency have signed what has been described as an ‘historic’ agreement that will see the two organisations pool expertise. The operator has become the first commercial organisation of its kind to sign a formal agreement with the Agency. It is intended to lead to faster information sharing where incidents occur, […]

Work on a major redevelopment of Leicester’s Haymarket Bus Station is to begin on 22 September. Leicester City Council is investing £13.5m in the building of a new, larger and more efficient bus station on the site of the existing one. The first phase of work will involve re-modeling and improving highways in the vicinity. […]

FirstGroup Chairman, John McFarlane, is to step down from the role at the Annual General Meeting in July 2015, as a condition of assuming the Chairman’s position at Barclays Plc. John will take on his new role from 1 January 2015, succeeding Sir David Walker. He will receive an annual fee of £800,000 in the […]