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Train passengers offered journey updates via WhatsApp
RAIL passengers can now receive alerts by WhatsApp when their train is delayed or cancelled.
CPT Cymru backs calls for Welsh Government to restore confidence in public transport
Transform Cymru is asking the Welsh Government to ensure continuing Covid-19 guidance around risk-assessments does not single out public transport as a greater risk than other areas of society
Go-Ahead pledges to spend at least £250m annually with small businesses
The Go-Ahead Group has set out a strategy to increase spending with small and medium sized businesses across all 12 of its UK bus and rail operating companies.
Friday, 03 September 2021
Bristol Live
- Petition launched to save ‘vital’ bus service after funding axedMany communities are still unaware that the well-used cross-boundary lifeline has been cut
Sheffield Telegraph
- ''Time for action' on Sheffield buses as new website lets passengers complain about city services easilyA Sheffield MP says that bus services in the city have deteriorated while the cost of tickets has risen - and they should be brought back into public ownership.
Lancashire Telegraph
- Council outlines plans for town centre bus cameras with penalties of up to £90A council has outlined plans to install town centre bus lane cameras to deter drivers who flout the law by driving in designated bus lanes.
Other Regional Press
- New Workington bus service hits roadA new bus service that will serve local residents in the Workington area has hit the road.
- Shrewsbury 'Green Horseshoe' bus route could bolster 'Mini-Holland' bidA new bus route around a town's suburbs to ease hospital parking and traffic woes could move a step closer this month.
- New services announced as Harrogate Bus Company gets back to normalHarrogate’s leading bus operator The Harrogate Bus Company is bringing back night buses linking the town with Leeds and Knaresborough and it has also announced improvements to its services to a Harrogate secondary school.
Coach and Bus Week
- Passenger celebrates key milestone with 50th myTrip operatorPublic transport app and website provider Passenger has announced that Guildford-based operator Safeguard Coaches is the 50th operator to sign up to its national app and website solution, myTrip.
- CPT Cymru backs calls for Welsh Government to restore confidence in public transportTransform Cymru is asking the Welsh Government to ensure continuing Covid-19 guidance around risk-assessments does not single out public transport as a greater risk than other areas of society
- Electrification perfection?The Mercedes-Benz eCitaro made its UK debut at ITT Hub in June of this year. Richard Sharman takes the very first example for a drive to see if this three-pointed star is as good as its diesel forerunners
- Transdev first to trial eCitaroThe operator is undertaking in-service trials of the new eCitaro as part of a move to switch its entire Harrogate fleet to electric power
- First of new Orkney fleet to arrive in OctoberStagecoach Bluebird and the Highlands has confirmed the first five vehicles for its new fleet for Orkney will arrive in October. The investment of £5.4 million in 34 new buses is a result of an enhanced partnership between Stagecoach and Orkney Islands Council covering an eight-year period from 2021 through to 2029.
Route One (Bus and Coach)
- Go-Ahead commits to increasing its spend with SME suppliersThe Go-Ahead Group has set out a commitment to increase its spend with SME suppliers across all 12 of its UK bus and rail operating companies. The step is aimed at helping those enterprises to recover from the pandemic while also benefiting customers, and it should see the group spend at least £250m per year with those businesses from 2022.
- Modal shift prioritisation by TfN is imperative, says CPTThe Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) has underlined the urgent need for modal shift to be prioritised in its response to a Transport for the North (TfN) consultation on the sub-national transport body’s forthcoming decarbonisation strategy.
- Delaine places new Enviro200 in service on first day of 71-plateDelaine Buses has continued a longstanding tradition and placed a 71-plate bus into service on the first day of the new registration mark, 1 September, with the latest addition taking the form of an Alexander Dennis Enviro200.
- Omnibus Society invites contributions to pandemic projectThe Omnibus Society has invited operators, their employees and passengers to share their experiences of the industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. The work will form part of a project that the Society has christened The COVID Journey and it will “create a record for future generations” of how the coach and bus industry and its people navigated the period.
- Real-time solar-powered bus timetable info introduced to NewcastleSolar-powered digital bus information has been introduced to Newcastle in what Go North East is calling a “customer information revolution”.
- Shift towards cashless is cutting dwell time at Go-AheadDwell time at bus stops is being reduced as passenger increasingly opt for cashless payments, Go-Ahead has revealed.
- Morebus reinstates partnership with Bournemouth Town PastorsGo-Ahead subsidiary Morebus has reinstated its partnership with Bournemouth Town Pastors to provide the organisation with complimentary transport on its buses.
Other News Sources
- Bus firm moving to new depot in HayesBUS company Abellio London is to move to a new depot in Dawley Road, Hayes.
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