Arriva UK bus sells West Yorkshire operator to Transdev Blazefield This Summer, there will be a change of ownership for Yorkshire Tiger. It was announced today [Thursday 15 April 2021] that Arriva UK Bus have decided to sell their Yorkshire Tiger operation to Transdev Blazefield. The sale includes its two depots in Elland and Waterloo […]
Read More Transdev Takes Over Yorkshire TigerA fun little article on How to brand or rebrand our bus routes One of the key parts of the Department for Transport’s National Bus Strategy is local branding based on community focus instead of operational needs. At present, there are some examples of best practice with Transdev and The Go-Ahead Group marketing its bus […]
Read More Fun With Bus Route BrandingAs one hospital link closes, another one opens Renumbered 397 extended to North Manchester General Hospital; Little Gem (Mark II) increases Tameside presence on TfGM tendered routes; 217 reverts to being Ashton-under-Lyne to Manchester route; Timetable changes for Stagecoach routes with cuts to 336, 337 and 389 services. The Spring 2021 changes are a bit […]
Read More Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 11 April 2021Is the future orange and white or pink with yellow spots? Unless we know different by the end of May, we shall be bracing ourselves for a new era of franchised bus operations by 2025. There will be endless chat on social media and blogs as to what bus routes will change, the fares, the […]
Read More What Colour for Greater Manchester’s BusesMayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham goes for Bus Franchising Scheme Nearly four years after he was elected as Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham stuck to his pledge to reform Greater Manchester’s buses. Following a second consultation, he made his announcement at 1440 beside Stand E of Ashton-under-Lyne Interchange. The Free Trade Experiment with […]
Read More Franchised Buses Get The Green LightWith the possibility of bus franchising in Greater Manchester and improved local networks, has the government fallen in love with our buses? There are four things that the creator of this blog shares with Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, otherwise known as Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP. One of them is a lackadaisical approach to […]
Read More Bus Back Better: Towards a Second Bus Renaissance?Stagecoach Group invests in AI based bus route planning tool Investment will help plan the changes in travel coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic; New AI platform Optibus will help improve service delivery and provide more efficient timetables; State-of-the-art artificial intelligence, advanced algorithms and cloud computing used to make timetables smarter; Major technological transformation will […]
Read More AI’s ‘Aye’ For The 111: Introducing OptibusThe even longer awaited fourteenth part of our informal look at bus operations For beginners. Once upon a time, quite some time ago, a certain Robert Stephenson created the world’s first true inter-city railway line. By September 1830, it carried its first passengers and goods between Liverpool and Manchester city centres. Today, Liverpool Lime Street […]
Read More Duffers’ Guide to Bus Operations #14: Lowbridge BusesStagecoach Group UK Managing Director Carla Stockton-Jones on the importance of apprenticeships Amongst the terrible human cost of the Covid-19 crisis, the impact on our country’s young people and their prospects is of major concern. Research published last year by the Resolution Foundation suggested that youth unemployment will not return to pre-pandemic levels for at […]
Read More National Apprenticeship Week 2021: The Bus Industry Builds Back BetterWelcome upgrade for local Ashton and Hyde routes For regular readers used to seeing a separate Oldham and Saddleworth bulletin, this edition covers the Oldham, Tameside and Glossop areas due to fewer service changes in Oldham. Sunday journeys added to 335, 342 and 387 routes; 41As partially replaced by Sunday and Bank Holiday 335s; 394 […]
Read More Oldham, Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 31 January 2021
