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Friday, 02 March 2018

The Herald

• Bus usage falls as ‘price rises and route cuts force Scots on to roads’Buses are a big part of the solution to pollution crisis

Other Regional Press

• Oxford Bus Company driver wins award for top customer serviceCOACH driver Geoff High was stunned when his name was called out at Oxford Bus Company’s awards night.

Bus and Coach Buyer

• Down by the seasideWhile most coach operators take their customers into seaside towns, Weymouth-based Bluebird Coaches has built a business taking them elsewhere. Mark Williams pays them a visit, and finds out how they’ve developed
• Government responds to Section 19/22 reportUK government has stated its support of community transport in its response to the Transport Select Committee’s report into the area. In the response to the report, the government said that within the existing legal framework, the government wants as many community transport providers as possible to continue to operate, and retain, service provision for vulnerable community transport passengers.

Coach and Bus Week

• Bus18 highlights achievements as it reaches first birthdayThe West Yorkshire partnership between First, Transdev, Arriva and WYCA is stated to be a great success, introducing a successful multi-operator smartcard, new measures to tackle congestion and £23.5m of new buses
• First look at Harrogate’s electricsIn this sneak preview one of eight new Volvo 7900E electric buses for Harrogate is seen at the manufacturer’s Wroclaw plant in Poland.
• FirstGroup to lead consortium delivering first autonomous trial on public roadsThe first use of fully Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) on public roads is set to take place in Oxfordshire, following the announcement of government funding into a trial project.
• Uno orders new MCV Volvo single-decker fleet for HertfordshireUno Bus has purchased six new MCV eVoRa-bodied Volvo B8RLE single-decker buses as a part of a planned fleet upgrade on its Hertfordshire bus network.
• TfGM could gain powers to ban anti-social passengers from networkA request to give Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) greater powers to prevent anti-social behaviour on the region’s transport network through civil injunctions has been made.
• First Luxembourg electric CiteasVDL delivers inaugural electric Citeas for one of Europe’s smallest countries
• Dublin coach & bus show 2018 launchedIreland’s Coach Tourism & Transport Council (CTTC) last week launched its 10th bi-annual Coach and Bus Show. Sponsored by Campion Insurance, An Taoiseach and Leo Varadkar announced the event at Government Buildings in Dublin.

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• New £7.2m fleet of 41 for south coastGo-Ahead owned Morebus has unveiled its £7.2m fleet of 41 Alexander Dennis E200 MMC buses for its 24-hour M1 and M2 services between Bournemouth and Poole.