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Friday, 10 September 2021

Bus and Coach Buyer

• Scottish bus support to last until March 2022Scottish Government is supporting buses in the country until March 2022.
• Ed Wills is new Brighton MDEd Wills is to become Managing Director of Go-Ahead-owned Brighton & Hove and Metrobus, replacing Martin Harris on his retirement in November.
• First starts coaching arm in Aberdeen

Coach and Bus Week

• Government’s hydrogen strategy could go further and faster says CadentDr Tony Ballance, Chief Strategy & Regulation Officer at Cadent, the UK’s largest gas distribution network which manages a network of more than 80,000 miles of pipes, most of them underground, and which transports gas to 11 million customers, said he welcomed the release of the Government’s Hydrogen Strategy as a great first step in promoting the use of the gas, but added there were opportunities for the UK to go further and faster.
• Modernising McGill’sJonathan Welch speaks to McGill’s CEO Ralph Roberts about electrification and the state of the industry post-pandemic.

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• Passenger’s new discount code capability ‘boosts traveller incentives’Public transport app and website provider Passenger has launched a new campaign capability that allows bus operators to create discount codes for travellers and boost incentives for bus travel.
• Passenger’s new discount code capability ‘boosts traveller incentives’Public transport app and website provider Passenger has launched a new campaign capability that allows bus operators to create discount codes for travellers and boost incentives for bus travel.
• Scottish COVID-19 bus support extended to 31 March 2022The Scottish Government has extended the COVID-19 Support Grant – Restart (CSG-R) scheme in a move that will see a further up to £42m go towards maintaining bus services between 4 October and 31 March 2022. It sits alongside concessionary reimbursement and bus service operators grant continuing to being paid at pre-COVID-19 levels.
• Clarity on PSVAR exemptions post-April 2022 needed ‘quickly’Clarity on how PSVAR exemptions will apply from April 2022 is required “quickly” if the coach sector is to plan for them effectively, a trade body has said.
• Harrogate ZEBRA bid unrest after operator’s ‘excluded’ claimThe North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) bid to the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme has sparked controversy after one operator in Harrogate complained that it was “excluded” from the submission, which is among 17 to progress to the business case stage through ZEBRA’s standard mechanism.