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Friday, 10 November 2023

Bus and Coach Buyer

• Industry supports Women in Bus and CoachDescribed as the first national network to support women in the bus and coach industry, Women in Bus and Coach is now active.
• Northern Ireland Minister hears Wrightbus’ future plansNorthern Ireland Office Minister, Steve Baker, has visited Wrightbus to hear about the company’s plans for the future.

Coach and Bus Week

• Suited for Success in the West MidlandsNational Express has helped a Birmingham charity dedicated to empowering unemployed individuals with confidence-boosting interview skills and clothing by donating a double-decker bus to support its new Suited for Success initiative.
• West Yorkshire operators join forces for EP+ proposalsWest Yorkshire’s bus operators have joined forces in a move they say will ’drive change as fast as possible’ to offer an alternative way forwards at a time when the region is looking increasingly likely to follow the likes of Manchester and introduce bus franchising.
• Next generation Enviros revealedAlexander Dennis has unveiled its next generation of electric buses. Jonathan Welch was at the launch to have a first look

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• CPT advocates net cost, incentive-based bus franchising for WalesBus franchising in Wales should be delivered via a net cost, or minimum subsidy, model rather than the Welsh Government’s gross cost approach, the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) Cymru has said.
• Stagecoach London chief Paul Lynch to be CPT President in 2024Stagecoach London Managing Director Paul Lynch has been named President-elect of the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) for 2024.
• FlixBus’s green branding features at Victoria StationFlixBus has decked out several gates at Victoria Station in London in new branded signs to promote its services.
• Angela Coaches celebrates 70 years with new Irizar i8 integralAngela Coaches of Bursledon, near Southampton, has added a high-specification Irizar i8 integral to its fleet as part of the operator’s 70th anniversary celebrations. The vehicle was supplied by Irizar UK.
• Harsh words traded as Go North East strike enters second weekOngoing strike action over pay by drivers with Go North East (GNE) who are members of Unite has continued into a second week after talks brokered by ACAS broke down on 6 November.
• BSIP to fund bus police patrol team in West YorkshireWest Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) is to use £1 million of its Bus Service Improvement Plan funding to introduce a team of police support community officers (PCSOs) dedicated to patrolling the county’s bus network.

Transportxtra

• 'Women in Bus and Coach’ initiative launchedA national network to support women in the bus and coach industry has been launched. The ’Women in Bus and Coach’ initiative will work with operators, manufacturers, community associations among others with the aim of encouraging and supporting more women to work in the bus and coach industry at every level.