Local authorities have been invited by the DfT to bid for a share of the £78.5m Local Sustainability Transport Fund. By enabling and encouraging people to make more sustainable travel choices, the projects it will support are expected to reduce excess traffic delays and help tackle problems such as air quality and noise, whilst improved […]

Efforts to make it easier for people to choose greener ways of travelling to and from public transport hubs are working, according to a new DfT report. The ‘door to door action plan’ identifies the work being taken forward that will help make door-to-door journeys by public transport, cycling or walking the norm. As an […]

A new academic study reveals more people use the bus to get into our cities than any other form of transport, bringing billions of pounds into city centres. The study by the University of Leeds, commissioned by Greener Journeys, revealed 33% of city centre visitors made their most recent trip by bus, more than any […]

Devon operator, Carmel Coaches Ltd, has taken over Nailsea based North Somerset Coaches. The acquired company’s bus service work was passed onto Abus of Bristol on 11 November 2013. Carmel has taken on the remaining coach side, which consists of two vehicles and two staff operating from the existing base at Nailsea. Carolyn Alderton, daughter […]

First Scotland East has announced a replacement for MD, Paul Thomas, who has left to take up a new position elsewhere in the bus industry. Paul McGowan, who was Regional Project Director for First Bus in Scotland working closely with First Scotland East, has now taken over as the company’s new MD. McGowan is based […]

There were 7,708 buses and coaches registered in 2013, down 4.9% on the year before, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Despite this, December saw the fifth consecutive month of growth, with registrations totalling 647, a 55.9% rise on the same month in 2012. Mike Hawes, SMMT […]

Leon Daniels, TfL’s MD Surface Transport, didn’t hold back at the launch of two new BYD e-bus electric buses at Go-Ahead’s Waterloo depot on 18 December. ‘This is a really exciting day for us,’ he said, ‘We hope to see hundreds of these in due course.’ He had been to the BYD Auto plant in […]

I think 2013 will go down in the memory as something of a curate’s egg as far as the bus and coach industry is concerned. Curate’s egg? – good in parts. The Government, or at least Chancellor George Osborne, spent much of the year telling us that the economy was improving and things were getting […]