Sector skills council, People 1st, has expressed a ‘cautious welcome’ to the changes to apprenticeship programmes recently announced by the government. The Prime Minister claims the reformed scheme will bring greater focus on quality for the learner and ease of use for employers. The reformed apprenticeships will be employer led and designed so they respond […]

Stagecoach Yorkshire has appointed John Young as its new acting Commercial Director. John has worked for the company for almost 35 years and was previously with Stagecoach Manchester where he was Network Manager. In his new position, he will be based at the operator’s headquarters at Eldon Arcade, Barnsley. He takes over from Rupert Cox […]

75% of bus users rate the overall quality of their local service as ‘very good’ or ‘fairly good’, according to a new report from the DfT. Entitled ‘Public Attitudes to Buses: Great Britain, March 2013’, the study showed 45% of non-users rated local services positively. Non-users consisted of 61% of the overall respondents. Number of […]

Trading in the third quarter of 2013 improved across National Express Group. Revenue grew 5% in the quarter and 3% in the year to date. In the company’s UK Bus business, like-for-like commercial revenue went up 3% in the third quarter, with passenger numbers 2% higher. An ‘exceptional’ performance was reported in its UK Coach […]

Record bus passengers were reported on the capital’s bus network during last week’s stormy weather. 30% more passengers boarded London’s buses between 16.00 and 19.00 than on a normal Monday during the extreme weather conditions on 28 October. The bus network carried 7.54m passengers, the highest number of journeys ever recorded in one day. This […]

Former TfL Director, Clare Kavanagh, has been appointed Service Development Director at Stagecoach Group’s UK Bus division, making her a member of the company’s UK Bus Board. For the past 12 years, Clare has been TfL’s Director of Performance, Surface Transport, with responsibility for the strategic development of the capital’s bus network. In her new […]

Malc Collins of Selby has taken delivery of a Volkswagen Crafter CR 50 Excel minicoach conversion. It has 16 high back seats, luggage racks, forced air, reading lights, velour trim, LED lighting, panoramic windows, a full body kit and a coach rear. This is the sixth vehicle he has purchased from the supplier, Excel Conversions. […]