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Thursday, 02 July 2015

Financial Times

• Stagecoach starts park-and-ride schemeCompany hopes to replicate Greater Manchester facility in other cities grappling with congestion

The York Press

• Electric buses back on York's roads after blaze ELECTRIC buses have returned to York's roads one week after a devastating fire grounded them.

Wales Online

• City MP dismisses glossy images of Cardiff's new bus station as an 'uncosted aspiration' that may never happenCardiff North MP Craig Williams raised concerns as a report on the bus station goes before Cardiff council's ruling body on Thursday

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• London's first double-decker electric-only bus plannedA double-decker London bus powered solely by electricity will be tested in October, Boris Johnson has said.
• London buses to test automatic speed-limiting technologyNew technology that can limit the top speed of buses on different roads will be tested on two routes in the capital in a bid to increase road safety. The Intelligent Speed Application (ISA) uses GPS technology installed on buses. It tracks the vehicles' positions on a digital map showing the speed limit for the roads they are travelling on and restricts their engines accordingly. More than 1,800 people have been killed or badly hurt by London buses over a five-year period. Road hazards Transport for London (TfL) said ISA would come into force on 47 London buses from next month. It said the...
• Oyster Card-style ticket machines arriving on Greater Manchester busesTransport chiefs are to spend £1m installing ‘smart-ticket’ machines on up to 1,000 buses - which will make it easier for passengers who also use trams and trains. Companies are being asked by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) to bid for a contract to fit the card-based machines in vehicles owned by around 30 small-to-medium sized bus operators. Up to 1,000 electronic ticket machines could be installed as part of the five-year £1m contract. TfGM bosses want smaller operators equipped for a ticketing system, which will work across various modes of public tanspor...