The Deutschland-Ticket will slash travel costs and accelerate digitisation, but it’s an enormous task Public transport in the town of Ausburg, Bavaria By Marc Bichtemann Pay £43 a month and have unlimited use of all local and regional public transport in the country. Sounds like a good offer? Dear reader, I present to you the Deutschland-Ticket.From May 1, 2023, Germany…
Greater support and more consistent funding is needed to deliver vision of the Bus Back Better strategy, Transport Committee tells government Iain Stewart:’many of the strategy’s ideas were on the right track’ Two years on from the launch of the National Bus Strategy for England, MPs on the Commons Transport Committee have expressed concerns about the pace of delivery.…
Vernon Everitt, Greater Manchester’s Transport Commissioner, believes that the Bee Network will transform the city region’s transport system Everitt: ‘Bee Network about delivering growth’ Vernon Everitt, Greater Manchester’s transport commissioner, told Transport Focus board members last week that the region was on the cusp of “something genuinely transformational” as it moved to begin rolling out the fully integrated Bee…
Former director of the Urban Transport Group will chair panel of experts, and bus operators hope he make case for funding Jonathan Bray will chair an expert panel on Welsh bus policy By Rhodri Clark. Welsh bus operators are pinning their hopes on Jonathan Bray, who will chair an expert panel on Welsh bus policy, to secure funding and…
Who have been national treasures of transport, our equivalents of Dame Judi Dench and Sir David Attenborough? Who’ll be next? Legendary railway pioneer Adrian Shooter was honoured with a statue at London Marylebone station last August Last week’s memorial service for the late railway icon Adrian Shooter made me reflect on the role of genuine transport industry legends,…
Welcome to The ALBUM Report 2023, a publication from Passenger Transport devoted to Britain’s independent and municipal bus companies. Returning for a seventh year, this year’s report also incorporates the Conference Workbook for the 2023 ALBUM Conference, hosted by Lothian Buses in Edinburgh on April 25-26. We hope you find it an interesting read and we welcome all feedback. …
Issue 287 of Passenger Transport is published on April 21. Contents include: LEAD STORY TUC proposes £9.9bn net zero transport planNew report aims to address ‘gaping hole’ in the government’s recently published net zero strategy – a plan for achieving modal shift away from cars NEWS New campaign aims to woo rail users back‘Nothing Beats Being’ seeks to build…
New report aims to address ‘gaping hole’ in the government’s recently published net zero strategy – a plan for achieving modal shift away from cars TUC general secretary Paul Nowak: ‘Investing in public transport will help us meet net zero targets’ Photo: ©Jess Hurd A new report released by the Trades Union Congress proposes a £9.9bn annual investment plan…
Transform Scotland warns on flagship Bus Partnership Fund Plans to reallocate road space on parts of the motorway network around Glasgow to high-occupancy vehicles such as buses have made little progress’ The Scottish Government’s commitment to investing over £500m in bus priority infrastructure has yet to be fully realised, according to a report by Transform Scotland. The Bus Partnership…
Hexagon Leasing has hired Richard McCarthy as its Used Vehicle Sales Manager to help build the company’s share of the used commercial vehicle market. Richard has almost two decades of industry experience and most recently worked in Used Commercial Vehicle Sales at Ryder Ltd. He starts his new role at Hexagon this week. Alan Ellison, CEO of Hexagon Leasing added:…