Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
[3] [4] The changes were met with criticism as it left Footdee without a bus service. [5] The new route to Countssells was also criticised as local residents claimed that Countesswells Road is too narrow for buses to pass other vehicles safely. [6] First conducted a site visit in July 2022 and stated they deemed the road to be suitable. [7] [8] [9]
In January 2016, branded Platinum buses were deployed on the route. They were the first in Aberdeen to include USB chargers. [2] [1]On 3 July 2022, the route was altered to use Links Road instead of Park Street and to call at the Beach Retail Park, following the rerouting of route 15.
Route 1 was created to replace the "Bridges" Aberdeen Corporation Tramways route in the late 1950s. [2] [3] Route 2 was formerly numbered 21, it was renumbered in the 1960s. [4] Service 1A, which offered an express service from Robert Gordon University to the city centre, was withdrawn in March 2020. It was reintroduced on 20 February 2023. [5] [6]
First Aberdeen were the world's first operator of double-decker hydrogen fuel cell buses, taking delivery of 15 Wright StreetDeck Hydroliners in January 2021. [9] These were initially taken off the road in January 2022 due to technical faults and were temporarily replaced with Euro VI diesel buses loaned from First Glasgow .
Bus services form the main public transportation system in Aberdeen since the closure of the tram network. Most city buses are operated privately by FirstGroup via their subsidiary First Aberdeen (First's global headquarters are located in the city, on King Street). When bus services in the UK were privatised in the 1980s, those in Aberdeen ...
The extension was added along with a new service, the 757, following public timetable consultations in September 2018. [1] [2] [3] The routes were the first to use the newly opened Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route. [4] The new services operated on an hourly frequency and used Alexander Dennis Enviro200 single-decker buses. [5]
The service is the first in Aberdeen to operate 24 hours per day. [ 6 ] In February 2021, the vehicles used on the service were rebranded to reflect the role of the service in transporting people to and from the P&J live, which is being used as a vaccination centre during the COVID-19 pandemic .
A line-up of First Great Western trains at Plymouth in 2018. During December 1997, the company was renamed FirstGroup; [2] this change was due to the company's entry in February 1996 into Britain's recently privatised railways, having a 24.5% shareholding in Great Western Holdings that won the Great Western and North Western franchises, and a 100% shareholding in First Great Eastern that ran ...