Go-Ahead launch new Voltra electric buses in the North East
Go-Ahead’s largest electric bus operator has celebrated the addition of nine Voltra electric buses to expand its fully electric bus fleet in the North East region. The buses are the result of a £2 million investment with top-up funding from the Government’s Ultra-Low Emission Bus Fund. Go-North East’s zero-emission buses will help to improve air […]
Liverpool mayor announces new £2 bus fares to be available within weeks
Liverpool Mayor Steve Rotheram has announced that bus passengers will soon be able to travel across the Liverpool City Region for no more than £2 per journey in a bid to help residents save money during the cost of living crisis. By 18th September adult single fares on all services will cost a maximum of […]
Lancashire County Council and Atkins complete new trial using software-based machine learning to analyse pinch points to improve bus services
Lancashire County Council and Atkins have announced the completion of a trial of Alchera’s Pinch Point Analysis Tool across 59 junctions of East Lancashire. The tool is a software-based machine learning application that identifies and helps to lessen the impact of bus pinch points on the network, ultimately making buses faster and more reliable. This […]
Oxfordshire awarded millions of pounds for bus improvements
Oxfordshire has been awarded £12.7 million of government funding for measures to get people out of their cars and back on to buses. Earlier this year, Oxfordshire County Council was one of 31 successful applicants out of 79 to receive an ‘indicative allocation’ for its Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP). It followed the council’s bid for […]
Travel Norfolk launches new multi-operator bus ticket
Travelling by bus in Norfolk has just got easier with the launch of the new Travel Norfolk Fusion Day ticket. The day ticket allows passengers to use all buses run by all operators across Norfolk and is an ideal solution for both residents and visitors who want to use buses across areas that have services […]
First Oxfordshire bus summit discusses future of public transport
Oxfordshire’s inaugural bus summit has been hailed a success after bringing together a host of organisations to discuss how to improve public transport in the county. Layla Moran MP, representatives from Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford City Council, Oxford Bus Company, Stagecoach, bus user groups, health services, employers and the city’s universities attended the event at […]
Planning application submitted for new bus lane in Portsmouth city centre to help faster travel
Faster bus travel across Portsmouth and South East Hampshire is one step closer, as a planning application has now been submitted for a new bus lane in the north of Portsmouth city centre. Portsmouth City Council has applied for full planning permission to create a new two-way bus lane to the north of Cascades Shopping […]
Manchester is bouncing back – buses reach pre-pandemic passenger levels
Buses reach pre-pandemic passenger levels in Manchester, according to the Go-ahead Group. The Group’s Manchester operator, Go North West, is the first Go-Ahead company in the UK to reach pre-pandemic levels The company is now operating nine out of every 10 buses that ran pre-Covid, and over the last few months it has seen a […]
New analysis finds Government funding intended to transform buses is disadvantaging rural communities
New analysis from Campaign for Better Transport has highlighted how the competitive nature of Government funding for local transport is disadvantaging rural local authorities and failing rural communities. The transport charity found that the Government’s system of asking local transport authorities to compete against each other for funding is consistently producing the same winners and […]
Bus cuts will save TfL £35m a year when £730m needed under govt plan
Transport for London’s (TfL) decision to axe or amend 78 of the current 620 bus routes will only lead to a £35m cost savings per year – when £730m is required from a government plan. TfL’s operating officer Andy Lord said the savings weren’t “an insubstantial amount in the context of savings we’ve got to […]