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In 2014, Megabus launched a route between London, Paris, Toulouse and Barcelona. In Germany, as megabus.com GmbH, they also launched a route between Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich. [13] On 24 June 2015, Megabus launched first intercity bus services in Italy with 22 coaches out of a depot in Bergamo. The five main routes are: [14] [15]
Tickets for the combined Megabus/Citylink services are available through both companies' websites, though often at conflicting prices. From 16 February 2006, the slower Citylink service between Dundee, Perth and Glasgow became available to book through the Megabus website, restoring Perth bus station to the Megabus network.
The Oxford Tube brand has endured, whereas the Oxford Bus Company's London route was rebranded the Oxford Express in 2000, espress in 2004, and X90 Oxford-London in 2012. The Heathrow service was rebranded the Airline in 2001. In 2003, Stagecoach introduced Megabus to the route, using different termini in both Oxford and London. However, in ...
Bustimes.org is a transportation information website created to take advantage of Bus Services Act 2017 requirement for bus operators in England to provide bus timetables, fares and vehicle locations in an open data format, which can be utilised by app and website developers. [2] This DfT service is called the Bus Open Data Service.
Citylink service numbers, timetables and routes were also sacrificed in favour of Megabus where the two brands overlapped. In March 2006 the Competition Commission launched an investigation and ruled that the joint venture substantially reduced competition and that evidence suggested it led to higher fares on some routes. [ 16 ]
The X4 inter-urban bus service benefited from £4.4 million ODPM Growth Area Funding between 2003 and 2006 and has seen annual passenger numbers rise from 325,000 in 2003/04 to over 500,000 in 2004/05.
The Manchester Magic Bus fleet currently consists of older Alexander Dennis Enviro 400Hs transferred from the regular fleet, operating on Wilmslow Road routes 142, 143 and 147. In 2006 the Magic Bus brand was introduced in Manchester on route 192 to counter a bus war started by UK North.
A national network links more than 550 routes, including many of the UK mainland's cities, with 11,000 cross-country journeys every week as of 2022. [15]Plaxton Premiere bodied Volvo B10M at Manchester Airport in April 2003 Stagecoach Yorkshire Plaxton Panther bodied Volvo B12B in the 2003 livery at Southampton in 2008 Selwyns Travel's Plaxton Elite bodied Volvo B9R in Liverpool