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RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Malarkey - 22 Jul 2022
(22 Jul 2022, 5:07 pm)streetdeckfan Wait a minute, if people are complaining about VOLTRA being a lazy brand, then what is SuperBus.com.
It looks like it was designed in Notepad!
Shockingly bad, the Co-Op Advert on Lothian Buses 569 is also not very good - https://www.flickr.com/photos/km_edinburgh/52228326745/
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Malarkey - 06 Sep 2022
McGill’s Buses takes over First Scotland East in latest expansion - https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/mcgills-buses-takes-over-first-scotland-east-in-latest-expansion-3833799
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Phillippatt - 09 Sep 2022
(06 Sep 2022, 7:50 pm)Malarkey McGill’s Buses takes over First Scotland East in latest expansion - https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/mcgills-buses-takes-over-first-scotland-east-in-latest-expansion-3833799this will be very interesting to see how it developes
Scotland Bus Operations - Jimmi - 15 Nov 2022
Peter Hogg of Jedburgh have purchased a further two Enviro 200MMC's to join the example delivered last year, these two are registered YX72OJP & YX72OJR - the latter visited Newcastle today on service 131: https://flic.kr/p/2nZu8zV
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Andreos1 - 05 Dec 2022
https://www.route-one.net/news/the-highland-council-to-establish-own-bus-operation/
Potential savings of £1.4m per year, after LA brings routes in-house.
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - citaro5284 - 20 Feb 2023
First deliveries begin of new Volvo BZL Electric Buses For Stagecoach
https://www.volvobuses.com/gb/news/2023/feb/first-deliveries-begin-of-new-volvo-bzl-electric-buses.html/utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stagecoach-bzl?fbclid=IwAR2EmIpMuoZUJJTlEWrxLFs9UpFb1YY28gEVYcCdjuWJd48E_aFuqnsl7ko
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - streetdeckfan - 20 Feb 2023
That's not the actual livery... right?
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - cainebj - 20 Feb 2023
(20 Feb 2023, 6:47 pm)streetdeckfan That's not the actual livery... right?
Definitely the livery, as seen in this shot posted by Confederation of Passenger Transport on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/confederation-of-passenger-transport-uk_always-encouraging-to-see-parliamentarians-activity-7033472842306355201-XdS4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - streetdeckfan - 20 Feb 2023
Christ, that looks awful
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Rob44 - 04 Apr 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65175447
"driverless " buses!!! Well with 2 members of staff on board
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Kuyoyo - 04 Apr 2023
(04 Apr 2023, 11:42 am)Rob44 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65175447
"driverless " buses!!! Well with 2 members of staff on board
Although it’s not actually mentioned within the article, the only section of the route which they will operate as Autonomous Vehicles will be along the Forth Road Bridge - on the public roads between Edinburgh Park Interchange and the Forth Bridge Access Road (and eventually from Ferrytoll into Dunfermline), the driver will drive the vehicle as normal.
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Unber43 - 04 May 2023
Alex Hornby has became McGills Managing Director.
I'm surprised he lasted at TransDev this long I heard they wanted rid of his ASAP.
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - citaro5284 - 04 May 2023
(04 May 2023, 6:26 pm)Unber43 Alex Hornby has became McGills Managing Director.#hornbyfound
I'm surprised he lasted at TransDev this long I heard they wanted rid of his ASAP.
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - idiot - 05 May 2023
Reading the comments on fb im surprised at this appointment!
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Andreos1 - 05 May 2023
(05 May 2023, 1:19 pm)idiot Reading the comments on fb im surprised at this appointment!
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid025v5Fm1ZaMAKMn2iKuBHssg83wxf7vh3y4nWqeRiy5T5a7J3bTtbxTmgEUSY5pftgl&id=100064289462295
Wouldn't happen to be these comments would it?
It always did amaze me how he could afford all of those holidays/research trips.
Now he's been accused of fiddling and getting Transdev to pay for the trips.
I wonder if Stenning and other 10%'ers are getting on the next Lumo train north?
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Michael - 11 Jun 2023
Lothian Bus 11 (Volvo 7900H) was on fire this afternoon in Clermiston today,
https://www.facebook.com/alan.smith.92123015/videos/615759963843798?idorvanity=1928580520724212
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Rob44 - 20 Jul 2023
Just got back from Glasgow. Seemed like every 4out of5 buses are fully electric??? Is the north east miles behind on this compared to other areas??
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Rob44 - 15 Aug 2023
https://news.sky.com/story/first-bus-and-mcgills-group-join-forces-to-launch-new-night-time-services-for-glasgow-12940462
2 companies joing forces to keep night buses running
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Adrian - 15 Aug 2023
(15 Aug 2023, 12:20 pm)Rob44 https://news.sky.com/story/first-bus-and-mcgills-group-join-forces-to-launch-new-night-time-services-for-glasgow-12940462
2 companies joing forces to keep night buses running
It feels to me like a bit of a hot potato that no one wants to take commercial risk on, whilst still applying the technique of one-upmanship on the Local Authority and Scottish Government, with much talk of franchising still looming.
I'd love to be proven wrong, but I can't see this lasting beyond 6 to 12 months.
RE: Scotland Bus Operations - Andreos1 - 24 Aug 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66536184
Finding out what the punters want, works for new start up in Scotland.