Rightcharge collaborates with Mercedes-Benz Vans in the UK to make it easier for businesses to transition to electric Rightcharge offers electric vehicle drivers a comprehensive end-to-end solution for charge point installations, ensuring a hassle-free experience from start to finish Collaboration will make installing home or workplace charge points more affordable and accessible for businesses and van drivers looking to go…
Out now: Issue 308 of Passenger Transport
Issue 308 of Passenger Transport is published on March 8. Contents include: LEAD STORY Tackling ‘a stronghold of gender imbalance’Women in Bus and Coach founder Louise Cheeseman joins others in setting out the diversity challenge and the initiatives that can help to fix it NEWS Speculation mounts over Tranche 3 winnersStagecoach could face major upset in final franchising phase…
Friday Reads – 8 March 2024
• University expands by many degrees (BusAndTrainUser) • The New Northumberland Line is Under Construction: Video (Geoff Marshall) • Green infrastructure & biodiversity (TfL) • ‘You absolute moron!’: How thoughtless abuse stays with frontline colleagues (South Western Railway) • Riding the Daffodil Line around England’s ‘golden triangle’ (The Guardian) • India is Maintaining its Metro Building Momentum (Railway Gazette Int’l…
Go-Ahead sets stage for equality
Go-Ahead Women campaign aims to recruit 1,500 new women bus drivers, with 50% goal by 2035 The Go-Ahead Women campaign was launched this week The Go-Ahead Group has launched a campaign this month aimed at revolutionising the traditionally male-dominated landscape of the transport sector. Under the banner of ‘Go-Ahead Women’, the company is poised to recruit 1,500 new women…
Completing The Incomplete
The Not So Super Superloop Removed from the above (by fbb!) are three routes SL4, SL6 and SL8 which are not part of the “Loop” and never will be. Nobody can offer a good reason why they are numbered in hr Superloop sequence. (click on the map to enlarge) For those of our readers who have been exiled on the…