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Friday, 03 December 2021

Coach and Bus Week

• Oxford network overhaul removes jointly operated servicesOxford has taken a major step to reshape its network provision to address loss of patronage, decreasing funding and a driver shortage, in a sign of what might be to come elsewhere in the industry as it shapes up to a post-pandemic future
• Analysis reveals billions of pounds shortfall in National Bus Strategy plansThe Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) has revealed that there is a significant funding gap in the Government’s National Bus Strategy
• RHA Coach: one year onJonathan Welch speaks to RHA Coach’s Andy Warrender about the trade body’s first year.

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• Coach decarbonisation taskforce created by CPTA coach decarbonisation taskforce has been created by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT). It will see a report on potential solutions for the industry published in summer 2022, which CPT says “will form a crucial part of CPT’s engagement with governments across Britain on one of the most important issues for the coach sector.”
• New Volvos for Luton busway as BSIP calls for zero-emissionArriva Midlands has invested over £2.5m in 14 new Volvo B8RLEs with MCV Evora bodywork that will be used exclusively on Luton to Dunstable busway routes A and Z. It says that the spend “further outlines Arriva’s commitment to the local area.”
• Scania opens Scottish service hub at EurocentralScania has opened its flagship service centre at Eurocentral, which it says will “become the central hub for employees and customers of Scania Scotland.”
• CPT Cymru announces Chair and Vice-Chair of Bus CommissionJane Reakes-Davies, Managing Director of First Bus Cymru, and Paul Dyer, Managing Director at Cardiff Bus, are to become Chair and Vice-Chair of the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) Cymru’s Bus Commission, respectively.