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Thursday, 26 February 2015

London Evening Standard

• Bus shelter pierces front windows of double decker in crash in Tottenham Disaster was narrowly avoided this morning when a double-decker dramatically smashed into a bus stop in Tottenham.

Other Regional Press

• Your chance to design Preston Bus Station’s new youth zoneA global competition has been launched to find a high class design for Preston Bus Station’s new youth zone.

Bus and Coach.com

• Profit up for Go-Ahead buses
• New Limerick-Dublin Airport service launched
• TfL specification Volvo double-decks for Tower Transit
• Major ski operation underway for Johnsons
• New look for new Hayling Island buses
• Growth for former Finglands services from Rusholme
• World’s first pure electric coach
• On-board defribillators to be offered by VDL
• Indcar reaches century with Mobi minibus
• Lima modernises public transport with IVU systems

Other News Sources

• Facebook is a useful tool, but there are risksAre you on Facebook? In the UK, 24 million people log on every day and some transport operators are making better use of this forum than others writes Alex Warner    
• Brown: Ability to adapt is key to our survivalGo-Ahead points to record in helping local authorities to deliver their objectives at low cost in making the case for voluntary bus partnerships     Go-Ahead has predicted that the ability to adapt services to meet local authority policies along with building strong reputations in local communities will define whether bus companies survive. At the presentation of the group’s half year results, chief executive David Brown acknowledged the debate across all political parties on the best way to deliver bus services in line with policy shifts towards devolving more power to councils. And...