FirstGroup owned Greyhound is expecting to carry over 1m customers in North America this holiday season. The majority of Greyhound’s fleet features premium amenities including leather seats, extra legroom, power outlets and free onboard Wi-Fi.
FirstGroup has donated £10,000 this Christmas to its national charity partner, Macmillan Cancer Support. Rather than sending traditional Christmas cards this year, the operator has posted a Christmas message on its website, including a reference to Macmillan. As a token of the savings made, First has donated an extra £10,000 to its charity partner.
First Aberdeen driver, Ian Walker, provided some of the residents at Grandholm Nursing Home in Bridge of Don with a surprise trip to see the Christmas lights in the city centre, after First Aberdeen donated the use of one of its buses. Once on board the residents showed their appreciation by singing Christmas carols along […]
As part of South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive’s (SYPTE) Inmotion sustainable travel project, Meadowhall Shopping Centre staff have joined in with the 28 day ‘Busboost’ scheme. It sees over 300 employees receive free travel on any bus, train or tram across South Yorkshire. The initiative is part of the DfT’s £24.6m Local Sustainable Transport Fund […]
A team of seven Stagecoach Yorkshire bus drivers dressed as reindeer pulled one of the company’s double deckers through Doncaster town centre in a charity event in aid of the Disasters Emergency Committee’s (DEC) Philippines Typhoon Appeal. A total of £770 has been raised so far, with the operator promising to match the funds.
West Midlands ITA (Centro) is to put in place what it describes as an extensive bus timetable for the festive period. Boxing Day in particular, when no trains are running, will have ‘the most comprehensive bus timetable for decades’. It will see frequent services throughout the day, arriving in city centres as early as 06.30. […]
Bus passenger organisation, Bus Users UK and National Express have launched a new discount card. It entitles members of the group to a third off all coach travel with the operator for a full year from the date of purchase. Costing £5 it will be offered as part of the Bus Users UK membership package […]
Bus use across England fell 1% in the year to September 2013, according to the latest quarterly statistics from the DfT. There was an estimated 4.61bn passenger journeys made, which is around 45m fewer than the previous year. Patronage in the country reached a 20 year high of 4.67bn in 2008/09 and has since remained […]