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02 February 2012
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UK
A determined move away from everything being controlled from the centre to more local control.
02 February 2012
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First is withdrawing its fleet of Wrightbus StreetCars from York.
02 February 2012
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UK
The first of Cambridgeshire’s community minibus schemes, promoted by the council as a flexible alternative to funding conventional rural bus services, carried just one passenger in its first month of operation, although that one person did make three journeys.
02 February 2012
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Blind bus passengers are being left stranded and vulnerable, according to a new survey by the charity Guide Dogs.
02 February 2012
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Plans to operate 12 hydrogen-powered buses on services in Aberdeen have been approved by the city council.
01 February 2012
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UK
Scottish Citylink – part-owned by Stagecoach – and First Glasgow have introduced a through ticket which allows passengers using the Citylink service between Edinburgh, Harthill and Glasgow to continue through to Glasgow Airport on First Glasgow’s 500 Shuttle service.
01 February 2012
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In what at times seems like a never-ending procession of inquiries, the House of Commons transport committee is now getting in on the act, with what sounds like an inquiry into an inquiry, as it plans to look into the Competition Commission’s report on the local bus services market.
01 February 2012
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Features
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Tourism
The leading international coach holiday and group travel exhibition, RDA-Workshop, takes place in Cologne from 17 to 19 July.
31 January 2012
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UK
Reading is currently at the centre of gas bus activity with two operators in the area, Reading Transport and Thames Travel, evaluating MAN’s CNG-powered EcoCity demonstrators.
31 January 2012
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Support for an integrated transport authority for the Bristol area, and potentially in other conurbations, has come from business secretary Vince Cable.
31 January 2012
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Features
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Product
More and more operators with digital tachographs fitted to their vehicles are choosing to download the information they hold remotely says Tachodisc managing director, Karen Crispe.
31 January 2012
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Features
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Product
Despite all the talk about smartcards and the use of mobile phones as a ticketing medium, cash as a means of paying your bus fare is definitely not dead.
31 January 2012
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News
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UK
First Glasgow is now displaying quick response (QR) codes at bus stops across the city so customers can instantly access its website by scanning the code using the camera on their mobile phone.
30 January 2012
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International
Optare’s Solo has been launched in India, where it will be sold as an Ashok Leyland product and fitted with an Ashok Leyland Hino-designed H-series 148bhp engine.
30 January 2012
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International
India is to trial fuel-cell buses, with manufacturer Tata having signed a memorandum of understanding with Ballard for the supply of 12 fuel-cell stacks.
30 January 2012
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International
All 569 CNG-powered buses operated by Translink in Brisbane were briefly withdrawn from service after a gas tank ruptured on a vehicle which was being refuelled at one of the operator’s depots.
30 January 2012
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UK
Marwyn European Transport has acquired Publicexpress for €280,000 (£235,000).
30 January 2012
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International
A TV advert for travel website Priceline which features actor William Shatner and a bus crashing off a bridge has been attacked by the American Bus Association as being “in very poor taste”.
30 January 2012
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International
Drivers employed by National Express subsidiary Durham School Services in Hayward and Livermore, California, last week joined a “Driver Speak Out” to demand better working conditions.
30 January 2012
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International
The New York-based Institute for Transportation & Development Policy has declared San Francisco (USA) and Medellin (Colombia) as winners of its eighth annual sustainable transport award.
30 January 2012
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International
Voyages Léonard of Maastricht is taking delivery of 17 Setra TopClass touring coaches as part of an order for a total of 32 new vehicles for the Luxembourg-based Sales-Lentz Group.
30 January 2012
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International
The government of El Salvador plans to borrow $45million (£30million) from the Inter-American Development Bank to fund the first phase of an improved public transport service in San Salvador, the country’s capital.
30 January 2012
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Product
A new multi-channel audio system is being promoted by Autosound.
30 January 2012
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Product
The installation of T1000 digital DVR systems to Reading Buses for 31 hybrid Enviro400s means that the Reading fleet is now 100 per cent covered by Synectics T1000 and T800 DVR systems.
30 January 2012
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Product
Go-Ahead has extended its fleet management contract with MiX Telematics which uses the RIBAS in-cab display for a further four years.
30 January 2012
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Product
Bradtech has launched a new catalogue-styled website with built-in shopping basket for its range of leading brands.
30 January 2012
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Who Buys What
The first DF (Door Forward) versions of the Wrightbus StreetLite are now in service with Arriva Southern Counties.
30 January 2012
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Who Buys What
Celtic Travel of Llandiloes has purchased three Volvo B7RLEs with Wrightbus Eclipse 2 bodywork for use on its first-ever bus service, the X75 between Rhayader and Shrewsbury.
30 January 2012
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Who Buys What
Middlesex-based J&C Coaches has taken delivery of a Setra ComfortClass S415GT-HD.
30 January 2012
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People
MARK YEXLEY, operations and commercial director of Arriva UK Bus, is the new CPT president.
30 January 2012
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People
BOB HIND, regional managing director for Arriva Midlands, will retire at the end of July having completed 44 years in the bus industry, 28 of them at managing director level.
30 January 2012
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People
The former managing director of the National Express UK Bus division, DAVE KAYE, has been appointed interim managing director at Arriva Malta for six months.
30 January 2012
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People
Also retiring from a bus manufacturer is DEREK MAYOR, Volvo Bus service manager.
30 January 2012
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People
BOB McLEOD, the long-serving managing director of Arriva Bus and Coach, is retiring in April.
30 January 2012
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People
Another well-known name among UK coach operators, WILLY POULIART of Van Hool, has retired.
30 January 2012
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People
First Berkshire’s chief operating officer, CHRIS DEXTER, retired this week after almost 42 years in the bus industry.
30 January 2012
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People
CAROLE STEVENS has been promoted within the Stagecoach group, taking over as operations manager at Stagecoach Oxford.
30 January 2012
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People
Excelsior Coaches of Bournemouth has promoted DAVE BAILEY to operations manager, and KEVIN SMALLE to driver training officer and has recruited DAVID BENNETT as traffic operative.
30 January 2012
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People
Mobile CCTV specialists Cyberlyne Communications has appointed RAY BARRATT as account manager for transport CCTV and vehicle safety products.
30 January 2012
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People
We record with regret the death of TOM COWIE (89), the man who founded Arriva.
30 January 2012
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The Welsh government has announced reductions totalling £7million in transport grants, a cut of over 20 per cent.
30 January 2012
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Bus drivers at Rossendale Transport who are members of the Unite union have voted for “discontinuous action” over a pay grievance.
30 January 2012
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Lancashire county council is consulting on planned changes to subsidised bus services in the Ribble Valley, with the changes being designed to attract more passengers.
30 January 2012
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Lincolnshire county council’s demand-responsive CallConnect service saw passenger numbers rise by almost 25 per cent in 2011, to just over 250,000.
30 January 2012
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Cambridgeshire county council is proposing to spend £1.
30 January 2012
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JJ Kavanagh, the largest private coach operator in Ireland, has ordered five more Neoplan Tourliners for its UK subsidiary, Mullany’s Coaches of Watford.
30 January 2012
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The debate over the future of Preston’s iconic bus station refuses to die.
30 January 2012
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West Yorkshire’s bus operators have been set a March deadline to come up with final proposals for a partnership scheme to improve services for passengers.
30 January 2012
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While bus fares over the last two years have risen broadly in line with inflation, TAS Partnership operations director Steve Warburton warns that the reduction of BSOG in April could push fares up by over 5 per cent, risking a sharp drop in passenger numbers.
25 January 2012
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In what seems a harsh judgement based on one single complaint, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that the FirstBus TV advert broadcast last year was misleading when it showed a vehicle displaying “We love low emissions”, with text stating "Our buses produce 4.