Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A guided bus entering the concrete busway track. Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is the world's longest guided busway and passes through Cambridge. [3] The designated route runs on normal road from Huntingdon to St Ives, then via a bus-only guided section along the former Cambridge-St Ives railway south-east into Cambridge, where it rejoins the road at either Milton Road or Histon Road and then ...
Almost all of the UK bus industry was by then owned by the government under the National Bus Company or by local governments. Bus passenger numbers continued to decline in the 1960s. The Transport Act 1968 was an attempt to rationalise publicly owned bus services and provide a framework for the subsidy of uneconomic but socially necessary ...
Most bus services in the United Kingdom are run by the Big Five, five large groups of companies which emerged in the 1990s from the consolidation of bus companies privatised in the 1980s. These groups are all focused on transport. Some of them also run rail services, express coach services and overseas transport companies. They are: Arriva
Further bus services commenced in 1986 after deregulation. [2] In 2006 it was rebranded NIBS Buses. [2] In 2018 the business was purchased by Eastern Transport Holdings with 30 vehicles. The existing brand was retained. [3] [4] [5] On 17 June 2019, NIBS Buses took over Ensignbus' services in Brentwood. [6] [7] [8]
Since 2005 statistics are no longer collected for UK non-local bus services. Unlike the UK rail market, which has seen massive growth since 1996, long-distance coach travel has continued to decline (from a low base). Vehicles travelled 1.6 billion km in 1996/1997, falling slightly to 1.5 billion km in 2007/2008. [33]
Bretonside bus station: Plymouth: Closed Brighouse bus station: Brighouse: 6 [6] Operating Bristol bus station: Bristol: Operating Broadmarsh bus station: Nottingham: Operating Burnley bus station: Burnley: 18 [7] Operating Bury Interchange: Bury: 19 [8] Bury tram stop: Operating Canterbury Bus Station Canterbury 25 Operating Castleford bus ...
[3] The site uses data from AVL tracking to determine and transmit the geographic location of a vehicle, such as data from Ticketer machines and the iBus system, in order to display live bus positions on a map. [citation needed] [3] The site also uses data from the National Public Transport Gazetteer, and bus stop locations from NaPTAN.
Borders Buses is a local and regional bus operator based in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England. It operates services in Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian and Scottish Borders in Scotland, as well as Cumbria and Northumberland in England. It is a subsidiary of West Coast Motors.