PUBLIC BUS TRANSPORT SYSTEMS * UK - Briefing News
* Transport groups dismiss PTEG claims of fuel price profiteering
The Passenger Transport Executive Group has claimed that bus and coach operators have used the excuse of increases in fuel to unnecessarily increase the cost of their fares, claiming that Arriva, First, Stagecoach and Go Ahead are paying no more today than they were a few months ago as their fuel prices were forward purchased up to a year in advance.
* Cardiff Bus gives away free day tickets to every household
Cardiff Bus is distributing a guide to its bus services and a free day rover ticket to every resident in the Welsh capital over the summer months, hoping to attract new customers, keen to make savings on the cost to run a car.
* Judge rules that Oyster 'hack' can be published by Dutch university
A team of students from a Netherlands university have been given permission on how to copy an Oyster card - the electronic ticketing system used throughout London. The ruling overturned one in June prohibiting details - into the weakness of the Mifare Classic chip (at the heart of every Oyster card) - being published.
* Welsh operators face big bills from council timetable changes
Each time a bus operator alters its bus/coach timetable mid-term the Welsh Assembly could charge them a considerable amount, with the charge primarily going towards the cost and time of council workers updating bus stop timetable cases.
* Go South Coast re-brands operators in coach sales push
Bells, Tourist, Kingston and Levers, Damory and Wilts & Dorset have seen their operations (or specific coach operations in W&D' case) re-branded with a two-tone blue livery applied but each will retain its local trading name.
* Stagecoach consolidates in Manchester with talks to buy Bullock's operations
Although unconfirmed by Stagecoach (as was the case when speculation mounted a couple of months ago when we reported on them looking to buy Highland Country/Rapsons) Stagecoach is almost certainly in negotiations to purchase the 50 vehicle Bullock's of Cheadle bus operation, whose main route is the busy Wilmslow Road corridor in Manchester.
* West Coast Motor and Citylink reach agreement on Argyll routes
Campbeltown-based West Coast Motors had started competing services earlier in the year after commercial agreement broke down between themselves and Citylink. WCM's service operated 10 mins before Citylink's and offered cheaper fares, attracting much loyalty from local commuters, though now, following an agreement, WCM will resume operations as a Citylink contractor.
From: "A Transport of Delight" (London,UK) -13 Aug 2008
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