Bus and Coach Businesses * UK - Briefly News
* Passengers clock up record number of bus tripsEdinburgh,Scotland,UK -The Edinburgh Evening News, by ANDREW PICKEN -2 Jan 2008: -- Bus passengers made a record 114 million trips on Lothian Buses last year – an increase of nearly six million on 2006... It is the ninth year in a row the council-backed company has seen passenger numbers rise... (Picture by JAYNE EMSLEY - ROLLING ALONG: City travellers are clearly happy with their local bus services)
London,UK -A Transport of Delight -31 December 2007: --
- BUSES' PURCHASES
* Stagecoach claims bus growth. Year-on-year passenger volume on Stagecoach's UK Bus services have grown by 3.9%. This is one reason behind a record order for 584 new buses to be built, primarily, by Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL). The order is worth £71million of which £49million goes to ADL for around 435 bodies and 300 chassis, the rest to Optare. The balance of 135 chassis bodied by ADL are MAN, Volvo and Scanias.
* £1million on Eccles buses. Arriva has spent £1million on ten new low-floor buses for its entire Eccles bus routes, 13 in total. The Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority funds the routes too.
* Travellers Choice go for more tri-axles. Carnforth-based John Shaw (trading as Travellers Choice) has placed an order for a pair of 14.1m Axial-bodied Volvo B12Bs having been impressed with the initial pair they had delivered earlier in the year. The additional length means a capacity of 65 can be achieved. Orders for six 12.6m 53-seater Volvo B12Ms with Jonckheere bodies and centre toilet and a Volvo B7R with 70 seats have been placed.
- LOW EMISSION ZONE
* LEZ for Bromsgrove? Bromsgrove District Council is considering implementing a Low Emission Zone in the form of a two-mile radius surrounding the town centre.
- CONGESTION CHARGE
* Majority in favour of higher congestion charge for most-polluting cars. Figures published just before Christmas by the London Mayor's office show that two thirds of Londoners support proposals to charge cars with the highest greenhouse gas emissions £25 a day to drive in the central London Congestion Charge zone and abolish the tariff for the lowest emitting vehicles. The results come from polling carried out by Ipsos Mori as part of a recent consultation on the emissions-based charging proposals. The survey involved interviews with 3,620 Londoners of which around half lived within the existing congestion charging zone. The research found that 91% of those questioned said that they thought climate change was "important" or "very important". Two-thirds (66%) of respondents were in favour of the proposal upon which Transport for London has consulted, with 38% strongly supporting it. Some 21% opposed the planned charging structure.
* Jams charge will woo millions to buses
Rochdale,England,UK -The Rochdale Online -4 Jan 2008: -- The deal designed to bring congestion charging could also see a staggering 29 million new bus passenger journeys in Greater Manchester, the operators claim... The £3bn package of public transport improvements which road pricing would trigger would take 3.8m car journeys off the road, according to a new report by the Confederation of Passenger Transport UK (CPT)... It would mean a 12 per cent increase in bus travel, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 6,200 tons a year, say the bus companies...
- COMPETITION SERVICES
* Some of Arriva's Chester routes cut. Bus operator Arriva is withdrawing service 9 (Chester-Piper's Ash), which it had started initially as competition against then council-owned ChesterBus, which was later purchased by FirstGroup. Arriva has increased frequencies on two other routes on which it competes head-to-head with First.
* Nat Ex claimed "exceptional". "Exceptional" operational performance has been cited by National Express Group is the result of 6% like-for-like growth over the same period last year for both its bus and coach businesses.
- RED ROUTES
* Red Routes in London opened up to some taxis. Transport for London is to change the rules affecting the capital's red routes to allow licensed private hire vehicles to pick up and set down passengers. From Monday 17 December, 40,000 minicabs which display a new 'Private Hire' roundel sign on the outside of their vehicle will be allowed to pick up and set down pre-booked passengers, but not park and wait, on red routes. Although red routes only cover 5% of London's road network they carry up to 35 per cent of London's traffic. The new sign, which will remind Londoners that licensed minicabs must be pre-booked, is expected to be adopted by the majority of private hire vehicles operating in the capital.
- INFRASTRUCTURES
* London bus garages start to move. Bus depots in Waterden Road, Stratford, East London are taking place in order to make way for the 2012 London Olympics.
* Bus access to be eased with road upgrade
Scotland,UK -The Scotsman -3 Jan 2007: -- A new bus lane is set to be installed on the main road leading from the Forth Road Bridge... Regional transport body Sestran has unveiled £100,000 plans to put in the bus lane on A90 just north of the crossing... At present, a bus lay-by immediately to the north of the road bridge serves North Queensferry and the Queensferry Hotel...
* New bus station may have no buses - A temporary bus station has been operating on James Street
London,UK -BBC News -3 January 2008: -- The biggest operator of public transport in Fife has said it might not use a new flagship £4m bus station... With only three months until work is completed, Stagecoach has said it still has not decided whether its services will operate from the new bus station... A local councillor said the response from Stagecoach was "ridiculous"...
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