Across the six Stagecoach depots in the north east, staff raised £25,250 for various charities over the festive period. Notably, Robert Taylor and Mark Johnston, bus drivers from Stagecoach North East’s Sunderland depot, collected £2,180 for St. Benedict’s Hospice and the North of England Children’s Cancer Research Fund (NECCR). The pair dressed as elves, snowmen […]
Transport campaign group, Greener Journeys, has called on the Government to adopt a nationally funded concessionary scheme to assist people in the first year of an apprenticeship with the cost of getting to work by bus. According to the organisation, the initiative would not only help tackle the cost of accessing work on an ‘apprentice […]
Volvo Bus has launched a dedicated Facebook presence in the UK and Ireland (https://facebook.com/VolvoBusUK). The page supplements the existing dedicated UK and Ireland Twitter page (https://twitter.com/VolvoBusUK) and provides more localised information than the internationally recognised Volvo Buses Facebook page. Volvo Bus UK and Ireland Marketing Manager, Pam Matthews, said, ‘The purpose of launching this new […]
Arriva Southern Counties has unveiled a gold painted Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer to congratulate Winter Olympics gold medallist Lizzy Yarnold. The bus is in use on service 478, that links Lizzy’s home village of West Kingsdown with Farningham, Eynsford and Swanley. Lizzy was unable to attend the launch, but left a message thanking the local […]
Three trentbarton apprentices have reached the finals of the City of Coventry Freeman’s Awards and were presented with certificates to recognise their achievements. The finalists were Harry Burns, Scott Hutchinson and Alex Wright. The apprentices are part of a three year programme, which includes attending a specialist training course at City College Coventry. At present, […]
A number of organisations and trade bodies have joined forces to urge the Chancellor to end what they describe as the funding crisis threatening bus services in the UK. The 28 groups include Campaign for Better Transport, Bus Users UK, Age UK, Transport for All, National Federation of Women’s Institute and the National Union of […]
Arriva North West has installed free to use Wi-fi onboard its X1 Runcorn to Liverpool buses. General Manager for Arriva Runcorn, Sue Madigan, said, ‘We are committed to providing our customers with reliable, well run services and have made free Wi-Fi available on our X1 route following the great feedback we received after introducing the […]
Nottingham City Transport (NCT) is introducing changes to some of its on bus fares on 30 March. It was June 2011 when NCT last increased its fares in the City Area. Since that time, the company has absorbed an 18p per litre increase in the cost of diesel, the BSOG reduction and a doubling in […]