COMMENT: The future is now
The second ITT Hub exhibition at Farnborough was starred not so much with the display of electric vehicles as the quality of the networking....
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....
We’re back. Talk to us
The first day of lockdown on 23 March seems like yesterday; the day we all realised that almost all coach and bus business had gone and, due to the...
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...
If you want good buses, you need fewer cars
I see that Newcastle’s promising start to setting an agenda for a Clean Air Zone has collapsed into weak-kneed populism. The initial idea was to...
What’s wrong with alcohol?
I’m familiar with this issue; although our brilliant heating/cooling experts such as Eberspacher and Webasto have developed ingenious electric...
Section 19: the waters get murkier
It’s a mess, and the panic whipped up by the DfT’s new guidance for Section 19 and Section 22 Community Bus Permits shows little sign of abating...
What a show that was
By day two of the Coach and Bus UK exhibition, I was becoming aware of my age – these legs, each heading towards 60 years old, ain’t what they...