Passengers to benefit from easier and cheaper travel with new MaaS app guidance
Commuters will soon benefit from smarter travel apps that offer cheaper, safer and more accessible journeys, following new government guidance launched today (30 August 2023) to ensure travel and navigation apps benefit all users. The government’s new Mobility as a Service (MaaS) code of practice for app developers and companies aims to ensure they offer more streamlined […]
Funding accepted to start planning transport improvements worth £4.5m in Oldham
Oldham Council has secured £675,000 of funding to start planning work on a major project to improve transport in and around Mumps. The money will be used to draw up plans for the scheme, which when complete will help deliver real benefits for residents – making sure people are better connected and can access jobs, […]
New Lancaster to Knott End bus will link to villages
A new bus service being launched this month will improve public transport connections between Lancaster, Garstang and Knott End. The new Service 88 will work alongside the existing Service 89 which operates directly between Lancaster and Knott End, and link to Garstang, Nateby, Out Rawcliffe, Scronkey and Stakepool, according to Lancashire County Council. It means […]
Bristol councillor calls for West of England mayor to take buses under public control
The councillor in charge of transport in Bristol has urged the West of England metro mayor to bring buses into public control. Bristol Labour is calling on the West of England Combined Authority to look at bus franchising as a way to fix the region’s struggling public transport. Labour Councillor Don Alexander, cabinet member for transport at Bristol City Council, […]
TfL to start work to transform Kingston Cromwell Road bus station
Work will transform the bus station, making it much easier to use and strengthening Kingston’s public transport network Work will begin on 28 August and complete in summer 2024 Buses will not stop in the bus station while work is carried out and TfL is advising customers to plan ahead Transport for London (TfL) will […]
Mace join 36 other companies on DfT framework
Mace, the international consultancy and construction company, has been newly appointed to the Department for Transport’s (DfT) STARThree Framework, securing ‘prime’ status across a host of consultancy service packages. The Department for Transport (DfT) announced its list of 37 contractors appointed to the framework to advise on the delivery of rail, road and aviation projects. […]
London reaches major milestone with more than 1,000 zero emission buses
The capital has now passed a major milestone of more than 1,000 zero emission buses picking up customers on the city’s streets, with the 1,000th zero emission bus being normally used on route 204. This means that more than one in nine of the iconic red buses have now gone green. Since 2021, all new […]
Neath Port Talbot Council steps in to temporarily save local bus service
Neath Port Talbot Council has agreed to step in and provide funding for two free shuttle vehicles in the borough, to act as a temporary solution to the cancellation of two services by a local transport company. It comes after the Welsh Government’s Bus Emergency Scheme, designed to keep vital bus services across Wales running […]
Transport Secretary opens Bristol’s first new railway station in almost a century
Transport Secretary Mark Harper will officially open a new railway station near Avonmouth today, the first in Bristol for almost a century. The multi-million-pound Portway Park and Ride station is the first station to open in Bristol in almost a century. As of tomorrow, regular services will run from the accessible, single-platform station seven days […]
Neath Port Talbot Council steps in to help as two crucial bus services are cancelled
Neath Port Talbot Council has arranged for two free to all shuttle vehicles to act as a temporary last-minute solution to the axing by a local transport company of two vital bus services. A number of bus routes are being cancelled or reduced across Wales due to the uncertainty around the Welsh Government’s continued funding […]