Grange Travel of Kent has taken delivery of a new Mercedes-Benz Sprinter based EVM X-Clusive 2. The vehicle has the Euro6 519CDi 191bhp common rail direct injection V6 diesel engine with Blue Efficiency and Stop Start technology, matched to the 7 G-Tronic automatic gear box. The minicoach features 13 EVM Executive class seats, a plug […]
Reading Buses is investing £250,000 in what it describes as one of the most modern control rooms of its kind in the country with a hoped for April opening. Reading Buses CEO, James Freeman, said, ‘We have sought to bring the control facility up to date using the latest technology to give our controllers the […]
Engineering company, Westport Innovations, has unveiled its new Westport gas enhanced methane diesel technology (Westport GEMDi), which it claims is a significant breakthrough on dual fuel performance. Westport GEMDi technology enables engine OEMs to offer a fully integrated, high performance engine optimised for dual fuel operation. It was co-developed with Tata Motors on its next […]
Work will start on the A664 Rochdale Road this month as part of a £122m bus priority package to improve bus journey times and service reliability on key routes into Manchester city centre. New bus and cycle lanes, bus stops, pedestrian crossings, parking bays and improved traffic signals are to be rolled out. TfGM and […]
Nottingham City Transport (NCT) has rolled out its Trojan bus this half term, with an ongoing aim of reducing incidents of bus vandalism in and around the city. The decoy vehicle has been running for several years and looks like a normal NCT bus, except its windows are made of toughened glass and its passengers […]
Lucketts Travel Group has turned some of its buses and coaches into moving billboards as part of an advertising campaign aimed at catching the attention of new customers. The vehicles all operate on routes in and around Hampshire and feature the Group’s tagline, ‘Get on Board’, as well as pictures of well known attractions, landscapes […]
Passenger numbers are continuing to rise on a new bus route in Reading. The 6a was recently introduced by Reading Buses to give shift workers at the Tesco distribution centre close to M4 Junction 11 a direct link along the Basingstoke Road to and from Reading Station seven days a week. The operator has also […]
Free Wi-fi for Stagecoach bus passengers has been introduced on four Euro5 ADL Enviro200s in Sheffield, part of a £1.5m investment since December last year in a fleet of 13 new buses for Sheffield and Chesterfield. The vehicles recently entered service on Stagecoach’s 123 service between Crystal Peaks and the city centre via Woodhouse and […]