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Friday, 12 August 2022

Bristol Live

• Campaigners brand Bristol region's bus system "completely broken"West of England metro mayor Dan Norris has held a series of public meetings to discuss ways to save services

Northern Echo

• Arriva pledges to improve Darlington bus services after being slatedPeople who have waited hours for buses to turn up have been told to feedback their concerns to a bus operator.

Other Regional Press

• Oxfordshire County Council secures £12million funding for cheaper youth bus fares, bus priority measures and rural servicesOxfordshire has been awarded £12.7million of Government funding for bus improvements.
• Planned bus service cuts are of deep concernParticularly high on our list of concerns is the 24. From Fitzrovia to Hampstead, residents are worried about the loss of this service.

Coach and Bus Week

• Coach operators to provide service to ImberbusNational Express is among the coach operators providing a dedicated scheduled coach service to this year’s Imberbus event following the announcement of another rail strike. With fears that the well-known annual event may be postponed, organisers of the event have confirmed that it will still go ahead on Saturday 20 August, thanks to the help of operators including National Express.

Route One

• Second national recognition for Stagecoach apprenticeship schemeStagecoach’s apprenticeship scheme has been named in the Top 100 list for Rate My Apprenticeship’s Best 100 Apprenticeship Employers table.

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• Alexander Dennis to offer smaller zero-emission busAlexander Dennis is set to introduce “an exciting new product” to align with an agenda item in Scotland’s Pathway to Zero Emission Buses that calls for an increase in the supply of smaller vehicles in that sphere, the manufacturer has said.
• FlixBus enters Scottish internal market with McGill’sFlixBus UK has entered the internal Scottish scheduled coach market with the launch of services between Glasgow and Aberdeen via Stirling and Perth from 8 August. Its existing partner operator in Scotland, McGill’s Buses, is operating the route with up to four journeys in each direction per day.
• National Express wraps up Bournemouth coach dealNational Express has clarified its position on the purchase of operations in Bournemouth. The PLC has now completed a deal for the coach and engineering undertakings of Bournemouth Transport Ltd, which traded as Yellow Buses until it ceased operations on 4 August.

Transportxtra

• Growing demand for bus bike racks leads operator to boost capacityA Scottish bus operator is trebling the bicycle capacity of its vehicles amid growing interest in cycle provision on inter-urban bus routes.

Other News Sources

• £49.55m funding to improve Norfolk bus services confirmedNorfolk has been successful in securing £49.55m of funding from the Department for Transport (DfT) to make the county's bus services and facilities better.
• Eat Leeds Restaurant Week creates win win with First BusEat Leeds Restaurant Week returns to the city this summer from Monday 15 – Sunday 21 August in partnership with First Bus, enabling people to travel to their chosen restaurant via bus for less with a Single £2 Flat Fare ticket.