Optare Plc has appointed Rebecca Green as Marketing, Press and Events Manager. Rebecca will report to Sales, Marketing and Service Director, David Siviero. She joined the Sales and Marketing department as Marketing Co-ordinator in February and has already coordinated a Royal Visit, new vehicle launches including the new MetroDecker and electric vehicles for London, in […]

First Aberdeen has expanded its M Ticketing initiative following significant demand from students in the city. Student tickets are now available via the ‘First Bus Mobile Tickets’ app, which enables mobiles to be used as bus tickets. Five student tickets are available, including the discounted £300 academic term ticket (normal price is £350), which gives […]

A record total of nearly 40,000 revelers from this year’s Reading Festival travelled on Reading Buses’ Festival shuttles. Figures show this was almost double the amount at last year’s event. Outgoing Reading Buses CEO, James Freeman, said, ‘Two innovations really helped us. The first was that buses had far better access to the festival site […]

This year’s EYMS’ Big Bus Day held at Hull’s Streetlife Museum beat last year’s previous record 5,600 attendance. Visitors this year are estimated to have totalled 7,200. Well over £4000 was raised for the NSPCC from donations and the sale of programmes, memorabilia, models and photos (and Shippshapes cushions and slippers) with some additional money […]

Stewarts Group has announced the appointment of Bill Tanser as the new General Manager of Leicester based Woods Coaches. Bill replaces Woods Coaches’ former MD and previous owner, Kevin Brown, who remained in post following Stewarts Group’s acquisition of the business in April 2014. Having helped to oversee the transition period following the acquisition, Kevin […]

Overall user satisfaction has doubled since the opening of Rochdale’s new interchange, according to an independent survey of passengers. A survey of over 200 interchange users carried out in May 2014, six months after the opening of the new facility, found 98% of those asked were satisfied overall with the facilities. A corresponding survey carried […]

First Scotland East has received the first five of 18 new Wrightbus Micro-Hybrids intended to operate on Services 20, 21 and 22, linking Livingston, Broxburn and other towns and villages in West Lothian with Edinburgh. First claimed the new buses will sport ‘one of the most eye-catching and imaginative designs anywhere in Scotland’. They feature […]

Spanish operator, Autobuses de Leon, has been named as the preferred bidder to operate Malta’s public transport network. Following the decision by Transport Malta, the island’s transport authority, official negotiations with representatives of the company are set to begin. According to press reports, its offer was €20m cheaper than that made by Island Malta Buses […]