Circling The City Centre Mr Rees, Bristol’s mighty mega-Mayor, Marvin of that ilk, is on a magnificent mission to clean up Bristol. As well as his proposed Underground train network, he is trying to improve air quality, encourage public transport and make car driving easier in the city centre. Some cynics may spot some inconsistencies in these policies as well…
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Temple Meads Troubles Metrobus The decision to turn the perfectly workable Lon Ashton Park and Ride (Bristol) into Metrobus M2 involved huge expense, almost no reduction in journey time and an increase in fares. Needless to say, the decision was not at all popular. Some critics said that The City Council was so desperate for s guided busway that their…
Shock News For London fbb made a right mess of this short item on yesterday’s blog. Some corrections were made, but here is the section again. Transport for London is renumbering a bus route FROM YESTERDAY. The 607, which runs limited stop between White City and Uxbridge … … gets a new identity! On Saturdays, for example,l it runs every ten minutes. What…
Slam In A Tram! Back in the day, workmen took over the road and laid the tracks. They did not have modern traffic., health and safety or vociferous opposition to frighten the politicians. Above is Leicester and below is Nottingham. And any way, trams just ran along the road with ordinary traffic – seemples. Once built, everything ran happily together…
The twentieth Scottish Transport Awards took place on June 22 in Glasgow and you can read all about the winners in this official Souvenir Brochure. Click on the image below to view Scottish Transport Awards Book of Winners 2023. If you are viewing the site on a tablet or mobile device, tap here to view. The post Scottish Transport…
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Another Blog, Another Tram! By now it is possible that fbb’s reader will have become tired of his adulation of european tram systems – yet here is another. This time we have five segment trams in a somewhat startling livery. They are in Angers. And it was this headline that drew fbb’s attention to the system. Firstly, fbb had no…
Gimmick or game-changer? Go North West’s driver recruitment campaign divides opinion, but if it succeeds others will follow Nigel Featham (centre) and his bus ‘pilots’ Talk to any bus bigwig and they’ll say that the challenge facing them is driver recruitment. Taking an innovative approach to attracting bus drivers is certainly not a recent phenomenon. As far back…
Public transport can bestow dignity on both a city and its citizens. Politics determines whether it does – and we need more of it Rosa Parks became an enduring symbol of the civil rights movement in the US. Pictured is a sculpture of her inside a bus at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis December 1, 1955:…