Issue 300 of Passenger Transport is published on November 3. Contents include: LEAD STORY Bee Network journeys rose 8% in first monthOne month after bus franchising began, Transport for Greater Manchester is reporting passenger growth, increased revenue and improved punctualitys NEWS New owners pledge to support Arriva growthArriva CEO says deal ‘will deliver significant benefits’ HS2 cancellation to fund…
• Edge Hill Engine Station: where it all began (Rail Engineer) • We Need To Do Something About Noise Pollution (Better Cities) • What TfL can learn about us from our mobile data (James O’Malley) • London’s Confusing Railways (Reece Martin) • Zaha Hadid Architects’ metro station nears completion (Dezeen) • Rolling Coal pollution machines fined (CNBC) • Japanese hotels…
Plans to build the first Very Light Rail system in the UK has reached a major milestone as the vehicle has been successfully tested on innovative track that was laid in weeks. The Coventry Very Light Rail (CVLR) project has successfully run one of its vehicles on test track at the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre in Dudley. The…
But Whose Train? Gina’s Train! Georgina Hope Rinehart (née Hancock, born 9 February 1954) is an Australian billionaire mining magnate and businesswoman. Rinehart is the Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately owned mineral exploration and extraction company founded by her father, Lang Hancock. She was Lang Hancock’s only child, and when he died in 1992 she succeeded him as…