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 […]
After ten years with People 1st, Brian Wisdom has announced his intention to move on from his position as CEO in the latter half of 2014. He will remain as an ambassador for the passenger transport and tourism skills and workforce development charity, providing continuity and an extended handover period for the organisation. Having led […]
What would you do if you arrived at the scene of a road traffic accident to find people injured or in danger and in need of assistance? With relatively little training you might be able to do enough to ensure somebody stayed alive until the emergency services arrived and delivered professional care. If nothing else, […]
Nottingham City Transport (NCT) is to withdraw its services 37 (City – Castle Boulevard – QMC – Beeston) and 14 (City to Queen’s Medical Centre Forecourt) from 30 March 2014 after both have run at a loss for around a year. The 37’s had been linked to Broadmarsh and the City Loop for better connections […]