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A Stagecoach Bluebird bus driver died in hospital following an assault by a teenage passenger in Elgin bus station on 2 February 2024. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The Stagecoach Group announced in June 2024 that it had opened a review of its Bluebird operations as a result of the cost of operating the business making it increasingly unsustainable to run.
The route was introduced by Stagecoach Bluebird in partnership with Aberdeen City Council in August 2010. [2] On 6 May 2016, a newly purchased fleet of Alexander Dennis Enviro400 double-decker buses began operating the route.
The buses are refuelled at a facility located in Aberdeen City Council's Kittybrewster depot. [50] The energy company Vattenfall announced, at the beginning of 2022, a proposed demonstrator project to use one of its existing offshore wind turbines to produce hydrogen on the platform itself, and then pipe it to a storage area close to Aberdeen.
It started on 26 August 1898 when the Aberdeen Corporation purchased the assets of Aberdeen District Tramways. The council paid the purchase price of £84,735 (equivalent to £11,920,000 in 2023), [ 1 ] representing £15 per share, and they also took over the temporary loans amounting to £10,000 (equivalent to £1,410,000 in 2023) [ 1 ] and ...
In April 1994 GRT Bus Group became a public limited company. In April 1995 FirstBus was formed through the merger of the Badgerline and GRT Bus Groups, with fleets in England, Wales and Scotland. Aberdeen was selected as the headquarters. [5] In February 1998 Grampian Regional Transport was rebranded as First Aberdeen.
Today many of the services are operated by Stagecoach subsidiaries Stagecoach East Scotland, Stagecoach Highlands and Stagecoach West Scotland. Some services are operated by Edinburgh Coach Lines, Shiel Buses and West Coast Motors. [20] [21] [22]
Hourly (end-to-end) at busiest times, with some additional services between Aberdeen and Stonehaven operated by Stagecoach Bluebird. The X7 Coastrider is an hourly bus route between the Scottish cities of Dundee and Aberdeen , via Arbroath and Montrose , operated by Stagecoach East Scotland .
[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]