November saw the 23rd annual UK Bus Awards held at a ceremony in London, and you can read all about the winners and finalists in this official Souvenir Brochure. Click on the image below to view The Big Book of Big Winners 2018. If you are viewing the site on a tablet or mobile...
Increasing competition sees Stagecoach write down the value of North American assets and consider whether to exit the US market or adapt There’s a new kid in town: Flixbus began operating in the US in May Stagecoach has started discussions with a potential buyer of its North American coach business. The option of...
The responses to this year’s annual rail fares increase were all too predictable. The industry should consider some different tactics Rail passengers have faced years of above inflation fare increases Another January, another in the relentless sequence of fare rises on our trains. And another set of all too predictable responses. So first...
It was the first service of its kind in the UK, but RATP Dev’s Slide shared ride-to-work service has now ceased operating in Bristol after two years Slide Bristol was the first microtransit service to be launched in the United Kingdom RATP Dev’s experimental shared ride-to-work service Slide Bristol closed on November 26...
On his first day as the group’s new chief executive, Matthew Gregory says that £430m pension deficit would have to be accounted for in any disposals FirstGroup’s new chief executive, Matthew Gregory, has indicated that breaking up the company remains a possibility. Presenting the group’s half year financial results on his first day...
Alexander Dennis is building buses for Edinburgh again. January will see the first of 42 new high capacity double deckers enter service in the city The 13.4-metre vehicles are capable of carrying up to 134 passengers A lone piper emerged from behind the curtain on the shop floor at Alexander Dennis’s factory in...
Should CPT abandon its steady National Trust-style lobbying and move towards a more vigorous and confrontational approach? The excellent work done by Claire Haigh for Greener Journeys has demonstrated very clearly the huge economic significance of the bus All change. This version of the Confederation of Passenger Transport terminates here. At least, it...
The culture of working nine-to-five, five days a week at the same desk in the same building is in retreat, and transport must adapt A WeWork office in central London My 25 years in the transport industry have been based on assumptions about the need for the mass movement of people, and goods,...
Campaigners point to new research and urge government not to overlook the benefits of buses when allocating £2.4bn Transforming Cities Fund The report cites the ‘Fastway’ project in Crawley as an example of a project that has improved journey times and reliability and caused a decline in car use With the government having...
Half a century after Barbara Castle’s landmark 1968 Transport Act received Royal Assent, it’s a good time to examine her legacy Barbara Castle served as minister for transport from December 1965 until April 1968 Barbara Castle was the first woman to be secretary of state for transport, but was she also the best...
Chancellor Philip Hammond earmarked £28.8bn for new and upgraded roads in last week’s budget. It’s a policy with many flaws The budget earmarked almost £30bn for new and upgraded roads So roads, roads and lots more roads. In his budget speech, Philip Hammond did not quite evoke the idea from John Major’s government...
Crossrail is delayed, but this is not surprising give the complexity of the project – but when it arrives we will all be impressed There’s been a lot of fuss about the delay and the extra cost of Crossrail in recent weeks, but overall the project has escaped the sort of negative publicity...
Reaching behind the rhetoric on rail fares