New team to head up NX Bus
Peter Coates, MD of National Express UK Bus, has implemented a new structure to deliver improvements in the business. Simon Mathieson has been appointed as operations director and will have five general managers reporting to him. Mathieson will offer a single, senior operational point of contact for the business. Mark Kipling has been appointed as...
Out now: Issue 32 of Passenger Transport
Issue 32 of Passenger Transport is published on May 18. Contents include: LEAD STORY: Lib Dems pay price for Edinburgh tram farce ‘People have punished us for it,’ party’s Scottish leader concedes after Edinburgh’s voters eject council leader, transport chief and 11 colleagues Nottingham unveils tram designs Fleet of 22 new Alstom Citadis trams...
Lib Dems pay price for Edinburgh tram farce
‘People have punished us for it,’ party’s Scottish leader concedes after Edinburgh’s voters eject council leader, transport chief and 11 colleagues The debacle over Edinburgh’s tram project is being blamed for the disastrous performance by the Liberal Democrats in city council elections on May 3. Former council leader Jenny Dawe and Gordon Mackenzie, the city’s...
PlusBus reaches 10th birthday
Combined bus and rail ticket seeing growing sales Transport minister Norman Baker visited Oxford this week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the PlusBus integrated bus and rail ticketing scheme. Since its initial launch in June 2002, PlusBus has seen growing popularity with ticket sales increasing by 25% in the last 12 months to just...
Skills council warns of ‘an impending crisis’
‘State of the Nation’ report from People 1st, the sector skills council, finds that more than half of employers struggle to recruit people with core skills Passenger transport businesses are facing “an impending crisis” when it comes to finding staff with skills to meet increasing customer expectations and technology changes that are taking place within...
Nottingham unveils tram designs
Fleet of 22 new Alstom Citadis trams will operate on city’s expanded network from 2014 Nottingham Express Transit has revealed the design for the 22 new trams which will help to modernise its fleet. The new vehicles are being manufactured by Alstom, which is part of the Tramlink Nottingham consortium that won the 22-year concession...
Arriva helps women on their career journey
Bus and rail group joins ‘An Inspirational Journey’, an initiative to help increase the number of women at senior levels of UK business and industry European passenger transport group Arriva is the latest partner to join ‘An Inspirational Journey’, which works to increase the number of women working at the senior corporate level in UK...
Regional Network Manager, Bristol – First
Regional Network Manager, Bristol. With a requirement to travel throughout the South West region. It is a very exciting time for First in the South West & Wales region with the recent introduction of Eclipse BRT in South East Hampshire and proposals to bring BRT to Bristol, coupled with a brand new local bus network...
Managing Director – Arriva Midlands
Drive your career – join the Arriva team Managing Director – Arriva Midlands, based in Leicester. Part of Deutsche-Bahn, Arriva is one of the largest transport service organisations in Europe, employing more than 40,000 people and delivering more than one billion passenger journeys across Europe every year. In the UK, Arriva Bus operates services from...
General Manager – Southern Vectis
We need a General Manager. Go South Coast is looking to recruit an exceptional individual capable of running the highly successful Isle of Wight bus operator, Southern Vectis. Reporting to the Operations Director of Go South Coast, this role will have full responsibility for all the Commercial, Marketing and Operational functions and will be required...
General Manager, Bus Services – Translink
Translink is one of Northern Ireland’s leading companies, providing award winning integrated bus, coach and rail services 364 days per year, and carrying over 77 million customers journeys every year within and from NI. The company is recognised as an industry leader and has continued to deliver strong performance despite the challenging economic times. Translink...
TAS plans a day to remember Peter Huntley
Consultants The TAS Partnership have announced plans to commemorate Peter Huntley’s life with an event on June 13, 2012, in association with Go Ahead Group plc, for whom Peter also worked as managing director of bus company Go North East between 2006 and 2011. TAS managing director Adrian Grant explained: “Peter lived in Preston so...
