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Monday, 17 October 2016

The Herald

• Ploughing your way to the bus stop in GlasgowEVEN in a black and white photograph, older readers will be able to tell you that this bus would have been painted orange, green and cream. It's an old Glasgow Corporation bus in 1952 when the Corpy simply fitted a snow plough on the front of old buses and sent them off first thing in the morning to clear the bus routes of snow.

London Evening Standard

• London traffic means buses are 'slower than a horse and cart'Londoners waste more than 100 hours sat in traffic every year, according to a new study.

The York Press

• Unibus withdraws the No 44 service in bus wars BUS wars which saw two companies fighting over the lucrative student market in York appear to have ended with one firm withdrawing its service.

Blackpool Gazette

• Bus firm ready to bring back vital lost linksAn independent bus operator is preparing to re-open stops shut by April’s County Hall cuts and splash £150,000 on three new vehicles.

Bus and Coach.com

• Arriva launches new double-decks for Southend
• North West guided busway winning over car users
• More free wi-fi on EYMS routes
• New West Croydon bus station opened
• UK Bus Awards finalists confirmed
• Volvo/ADL hybrid double-decks order from Stagecoach East Scotland
• First StreetDecks for National Express
• BYD to build €20m bus assembly plant in Hungary