Air chaos bonus?
It’s good to see so many coaches on the roads as spring gives way to summer, with touring having picked up and, as Marksman reports in On Target,...
BSIP funding – industry reacts
After a long wait, recipients of the £7bn Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) funding have been announced. Throwing up much speculation where the...
Guest comment: ‘Eyes on the prize’
The North East’s bus network is on the cusp of a transport revolution and plays a critical role in the climate change agenda. Buses reduce...
Work, not handouts
It is very gratifying to see that Parliament – or at least, some parts of it – have woken up to the extreme distress faced by the coach industry....
Nigel Skill: ‘Pearls to swine?’
When considering the recent developments of the growing number of trade bodies putting forward their case for representing the best interests of our...
Principles and pragmatism
The council audit which revealed the scale of deficiency in the Accessible Transport Group (ATG) in the West Midlands is a shocker. ATG ran 600...
Bus franchising; a response
Dear Luke I’d just like to briefly take issue with some points made by your interesting article about mayoral powers. The general point that...
Respect for the dismantlers
In this week’s issue, B&CB visits the community of bus dismantlers and recyclers just outside of Barnsley. It was, above all else, humbling....