Yearly Archives: 2024

Rightcharge collaborates with Mercedes-Benz Vans

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Women in Transport – Driving forward diversity

The Women in Transport Diversity & Inclusion Bus Group can look back on five years of progress    BY Sonya Byers March is a significant month for Women in Transport, especially with International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. This year marks a special milestone as the Women in Transport Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Bus Group celebrates its fifth anniversary.…

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Women in Bus and Coach – Empowering diversity

The Women in Bus and Coach initiative (pictured last year on a visit to parliament) has emerged as a powerful force. Here are seven compelling reasons behind the pressing need for such initiatives    BY Louise Cheeseman International Women’s Day is a really great opportunity to showcase the unique culture that women can offer all areas of industry, sport, charities,…

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The world is open to connecting with us

  My recent experiences of field marketing for a bus service in a seaside town showed me that businesses are ready to collaborate   I don’t want this to sound like a textbook, ‘interview response’ style, but one of the best aspects of being involved in public transport is the chance to be really embedded in the community and form…

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Devolution seeds will bear fruit

  Against the precarious backdrop of public transport, mayors and local leaders in our city regions are planting seeds of optimism  The new Headbolt Lane station in Kirkby   I am not sure about you, but this year feels like it is flying by. The start of the new year only feels like yesterday and we are already in the…

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Rolling stock has remained in sidings

  Rolling stock issues have been surprisingly neglected in debates about the future of the railway, but there are big problems to solve  SWR’s new Arterio trains are a rare example of new trains entering service   The recent George Bradshaw address ‘election special’ contained few surprises. Rail minister Huw Merriman confirmed that he is well on top of his…

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