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Friday, 20 November 2020

Wales Online

• Pictures show how Cardiff Bus station is taking shape during lockdownIt's coming along quickly despite all of the delays

Coach and Bus Week

• NX Group issues latest trading updateNational Express Group has issued its latest trading statement, which includes details of new contract gains by its two recently introduced UK divisions, NEATS and NETS
• Go North East celebrates its network planning and scheduling teams on Transport Planning DayMonday 16 November was Transport Planning Day and Go North East (GNE) got into the spirit by celebrating the hard work that goes on behind the scenes from its network planning and scheduling team.
• Tom Elvidge takes up CEO position at Arrival Mobility in the UKArrival, the vertically integrated technology company that is planning to ‘revolutionise’ the electric vehicle industry, has hired Tom Elvidge as the CEO of Arrival Mobility in the UK, overseeing the growth of Arrival’s mobility service offerings.
• Daimler Buses supplies Setra Covid-19 testing stationDaimler Buses is supporting the fight against the Covid-19 virus by providing a Covid-19 testing bus. In the coming months, the S 416 LE Business inter-city bus that was converted at the manufacturer’s Neu-Ulm site in four weeks will be used by the Huber Group as a mobile testing station at schools, residential care homes and workplaces. “Mobile testing of nursing staff and employees is possible in the bus,” said Thomas Görtler, Business Development Manager at the Mühlhausen-based company which is using the Setra on loan from Daimler Buses.

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• 4,000 zero-emission buses plan to start delivery in 2021The government will invest £120m in 2021 to begin the introduction of its promised 4,000 zero-emission buses. It will also publish the long-anticipated National Bus Strategy early next year. 
• Go-Ahead London places Metrodecker EV orderGo-Ahead London has placed an order with Optare for a batch of 17 battery-electric Metrodecker EV double-deckers. They will operate from Merton depot. The deal is the fifth Metrodecker EV order placed to date. It will take to 108 the number in service by May 2021. 
• Grayson Thermal Systems upgrades cab A/C on 1,200 busesGrayson Thermal Systems has made alterations to the cab air-conditioning systems of 1,200 buses in London to further protect drivers against coronavirus COVID-19. 
• DVSA opens data portal for poor heavy vehicle test availabilityDVSA has launched a service that allows operators to inform it of a lack of availability of heavy vehicle annual test slots. It applies to PCV, LGV and trailer tests in England, Scotland and Wales.
• ‘How to build back better’ Transport Focus examines future of public transport after COVIDResearch conducted by Transport Focus has revealed the pandemic’s impact on public transport users. It aims to offer an insight into how operators can rebuild following coronavirus COVID-19.
• West Yorkshire enhanced bus partnership planning underwayPlans are being developed for a proposed enhanced partnership between bus operators and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) in a move that suggests WYCA’s immediate interest in bus franchising may be waning.