Teresa Broxton has been appointed as the new MD for First Manchester. Teresa joined First in 1998 and has held the position of Finance Director for First in the North of England since 2011. More recently she has championed the business transformation programme in the region which has driven up passenger volumes by 14% since […]
Steve Pickup retired on 31 January after a career spanning 47 years with Plaxton and ADL. Starting as an apprentice coachbuilder at what was then the Seamer Road plant of Plaxton in Scarborough, he progressed to selling coaches across most of the south of England and Midlands for ADL. After 11 years in the factory, […]
Go North East has converted its ‘Cobalt Clipper’ services from single to double deckers to keep up with demand. The 17 new Wrightbus Eclipse bodied Volvo B9TLs on the routes are each fitted with free onboard Wi-fi, power sockets and next stop announcements and displays. They have been introduced following a £3m investment by the […]
Wrightbus has expressed its delight at being a leading partner in the Year of the Bus the year long celebration of the contribution that London’s bus network continues to make to the life and economy of the city and the UK as a whole. Over 1,800 Wrightbus vehicles are currently in daily operation right across […]
Optare is partnering with TfL and The London Transport Museum as an official sponsor of Year of the Bus, a celebration of the capital’s bus network. The year will also see the launch of Optare’s new double decker, out in May. Optare’s CEO, Enrico Vassallo, said, ‘As a leading UK bus manufacturer, I’m delighted Optare […]
Councillors from South Yorkshire ITA (SYITA) have agreed to discontinue free bus services in Sheffield and Rotherham from the end of April. The FreeBee services are publically funded. The councillors are also to stop the express 638 bus service in Doncaster, which runs weekday peak times between Doncaster’s North and South Park and Ride sites […]
Chief Executive of campaign group Greener Journeys, Claire Haigh, has said the RAC Foundation has missed the point on its recently published Transport Poverty 2014 statistics. The new figures reveal the least well off families in the UK have slipped further into transport poverty. They show that around 800,000 car owning households spent at least […]
Extra costs associated with a flurry of new products ‘put pressure’ on Volvo Group’s profitability in 2013, according to its President and CEO, Olof Persson. In its third quarter results, the Group’s operating income for 2013 was £672.1m/SEK7,138m (2012: £1,701.3m/SEK18,069m). Its income after taxes was £357.7m/SEK3,802m (2012: £1,070.6m/SEK11,378m). The Board of Directors proposes a dividend […]