General bus-related news and articles
Free weekday evening travel is being offered across the West Midlands, on all bus services, in the run up to Christmas this year, in a unique move never seen before …
Mayor of the West Midlands unveils UK’s biggest free bus travel offer this Christmas Read More
If you’ve got your tickets to the annual fireworks display at Himley Hall near Dudley, National Express West Midlands – on behalf of Dudley MBC – will be operating a …
Travel by bus to Himley Fireworks 2024 Read More
It’s getting tiresome trying to use Facebook while being bombarded with numerous “sponsored posts”, many of which are clear obvious scams. Though I haven’t seen this one myself, I was …
Be wary of scams on social media! Read More
Two years ago, I published the below article about how TfWM were removing a large number of Swift collectors installed at bus stops, while leaving a select few at strategic …
TfWM removing all on-street Swift collectors from 1st June 2024 Read More
The wait is almost over! I have been informed that brand new electric buses are set to begin hitting the streets of north Birmingham from Monday 27th May 2024. Following …
North Birmingham buses going electric from end of May 2024 Read More
I wrote a brief piece last year about new laws that the Department for Transport were planning to introduce which would require all buses to provide audio and visual route, …
“The next stop is…” – new Accessible Information Regulations effective from October 2024 Read More
Diamond Bus’ parent company Rotala Plc recently announced it is planning to invest in zero-emission vehicles for the West Midlands if it is successful in bidding for ZEBRA funding from …
Diamond Bus planning to invest in new zero-emission buses Read More
It might be likely that many passengers are unaware of this already, but NX Bus are no longer offering free Wi-Fi on its buses. According to NX Bus, despite having …
End of free Wi-Fi on NX buses Read More
Following the completion of the task of replacing all of NX Coventry’s double-decks with brand new electric buses a couple of months ago, attention now returns to the West Midlands …
More electric buses coming in 2024… and fewer single decks Read More
Dudley Bus Station will be demolished early next year ready for building work to start on the new £24 million interchange. The out-of-date bus station is being replaced with a …
Work on £24 million Dudley Interchange to begin in new year Read MoreProtected by Security by CleanTalk
