Sussex Bus is starting a new community engagement initiative to become more involved with the local community and to support new development plans for the business. The first activity in this scheme was a Bus Surgery in the Burgess Hill area. Invited to the event were Metrobus and Compass Bus to allow all customers to […]

Entries for the Bus Driver of the Year 2014 are currently being sought from operators large and small. The National Final of the competition will take place in Blackpool on 14 September. Last year’s overall winner, and Bus Driver of the Year 2013, was Gordon Cutting from Stagecoach Oxfordshire. He won out of 102 other […]

Go North East has celebrated its long serving employees at an awards event at the Hilton hotel in Gateshead. The Go-Ahead owned operator gave awards for long service to 84 of its employees. Coachbuilder, Philip Mercer from Birtley, picked up his 50 year long service award. Eight employees, John Flowdy, John Harland, John Marriner, George […]

Volvo Buses has secured an order for 47 hybrid buses from Nobina. They are for use on inner-city operations in the cities of Sundsvall and Örnsköldsvik. This is the manufacturer’s largest hybrid order in its home country to date. It encompasses 36 Volvo 7900 Hybrids and 11 Volvo 7900 Hybrid articulated buses, as well as […]

First Glasgow has confirmed that 13,000 job seekers across Greater Glasgow have benefitted from bus fare discounts thanks to a discounted ticket trial on board its buses. In partnership with Jobcentre Plus, the operator is offering up to 55% off the cost of an equivalent single journey. Job seekers travel from just £1 in the […]

Go-Ahead is to exit its US bus operations after losing a contract bid to renew a service in St Louis, Missouri. It sees its 50:50 partnership with the Chicago based operator, Cook-Illinois, come to an end on 31 July. Go-Ahead entered into the partnership in November 2009. National Express subsidiary, Durham School Services, won the bid. […]

Part of Aberdeen’s fleet of ten Van Hool hydrogen buses were unveiled to the public during the recent All-Energy Exhibition and Conference in the city. The vehicles are described as Europe’s largest fleet of hydrogen buses. The £20m Aberdeen Hydrogen Bus Project has been co-funded by Scottish, UK and European partners: the UK’s innovation agency, […]

Last week’s Optare launch at Covent Garden was quite an event. With only nine months development time and so many double deck false dawns in the past, I had feared that we might be witnessing something less impressive than turned out to be the case, but a TfL specification double deck weighing a shade under […]