just found out my mate Mary has made it into the final 6 for King of the Road (North West) fingers crossed to her!

http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/knightoftheroadNW/

Does anyone know anyone whos won this before?

Some say they are grants, subsidies (others say they aren't) - but either way, the attached document is eye watering!

http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/file...ublish.pdf

Who said deregulation would save taxpayer money?

Looks like Durham County Council have updated their website abit, saw the following extract from their site:


Find out when the next bus is due
Across the North East the most popular bus routes are tracked using satellite technology. Information is sent to electronic display boards at bus stops and websites to provide real time passenger information.

You can also get this information on your mobile or smart phone by using our journey planning services.

In County Durham this real time service will be available from July 2014.

Source: http://www.durham.gov.uk/Pages/Service.a...viceId=908

Does this mean that their will be a App on the mobile to see real time bus services for across the Northeast similar to the Arriva App from July 2014?.

It is coming upto the hundred year anniversary of the war starting and there are events up and down the country remembering, informing and sharing stories of it.

Just found this story, which I find quite amazing.
http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/?p=874

Hi guys, just want to plug my Flickr account really please?
Added some batches of 10 over the past couple of weeks following a trip out to the north east on Sat 8th Feb.
Earlier pictures are there which feature many other trips out

http://www.flickr.com/photos/northern156/

I've just uploaded a new batch of 10 this evening; some of the highlights:

Yellow Heaven (1) by Northern156, on Flickr


Go North East 8323 NK11FXF by Northern156, on Flickr


Go North East 5375 NL63XBF by Northern156, on Flickr



I'll use this thread to update you all on new batches of pictures in the future.

Sean

So WiFi provision is somewhat becoming the 'norm' these days. With every fresh batch of buses ordered, you're expecting WiFi to feature on them at least. Some operators choosing to go even further with this, and add features such as power sockets to their vehicles. In the digital age we're becoming more and more reliant on WiFi access, whether it be for work or pleasure.

Now it's all good and well investing in this technology and promoting your services with it, but what really peeves me off is denial that a problem exists. It seems that batches of Go North East vehicles since the arrival of the Connections 4 Citaros have suffered from WiFi issues. Now I know it's been spoken about on here a while ago, but Customer Services don't really acknowledge the problem. I've reported several faults as of late, and only tend to get a "Sorry about that." kind of response. Not very helpful when it would appear there's a large scale issue.

The vehicles I find I don't have issues with are the Red Arrows and Angel deckers. In the last two weeks alone I've been on 12 buses that aren't in either of those aforementioned batches, and are batches from the Connections 4 Citaros onwards (Citylink, Fab56, and Cobalt). All 12 have had exactly the same fault where that I can connect to the WiFi AP, but the login page isn't presented and I don't have any Internet access. I generally test on both an Android and iOS handset and the issue can be replicated on both.

Does anyone have a better idea of what is happening here?

Anyone been watching it...

I have been watching the Snowboarding events, some of them girls are fit, Jenny Jones and Torah Bright are fit

Enjoyed watching Skeleton Bob and Luge, and strangely female curling, our women curlers are well fit

Now I am looking forward to seeing the Jamaican Bobsleigh Team...

Anyone else watching

Thanks to everyone who has joined the forum to help us reach another great milestone: 500 members.

Since June 2013, we have accumulated 28,007 posts on 537 threads - made by each and every one of you. For those interested, our statistics show that our most popular forum is "Go North East", which holds over 50% of the forum's total posts: 14,371 posts, in 24 threads.

I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Daniel Benton, our newest member.

I'll not set the bar too high by suggesting 750 members, but it would be a delight to reach 600 members for our next milestone!

Wasn't sure where to place this but on the NEXUS site theirs a page about

Better Bus Area Fund


A partnership between Local Authorities, Bus Operators within Tyne and Wear, and Nexus secured funding from the Department for Transport (DfT) under the ‘Better Bus Area’ initiative. The funding secured was £4.972m from the DfT, and this was added to local contributions making a total investment pot of £6.651m for improvements to bus services across Tyne and Wear. The funding will provide highways improvements to key routes with objectives of improving the local economy by making it easier to travel to jobs on less congested roads, causing buses to run more freely and having a positive influence on climate change.

The improvements will provide upgraded junctions at congestion hotspots on 17 key routes into towns and cities to provide buses with more reliable journey times, benefitting 35 million bus journeys a year (a quarter of all trips made in Tyne and Wear) and reduce carbon emissions by 46,360 tonnes per year.

Better Bus Benefits
17 bus routes with intelligent traffic signals that give buses priority at busy junctions
70 bus shelters newly-equipped with CCTV
Free wifi on routes across Tyne and Wear
New bus link for Borough Road in Sunderland
Bus lane extension and junction improvements on the A184 in Wardley
Personalised QR codes giving bus journey information
Brand new shelters with CCTV at Heworth Interchange
CCTV throughout Park Lane Interchange
Bus stop improvements including raised kerbs and clearways
Targeted price promotions with bus operators

Few Links

http://www.nexus.org.uk/sites/default/fi...Poster.pdf

http://www.nexus.org.uk/sites/default/fi...Adshel.pdf

http://www.nexus.org.uk/sites/default/fi...Adshel.pdf

http://www.nexus.org.uk/sites/default/fi...Adshel.pdf


Website Link. http://www.nexus.org.uk/bus/better-bus-area-fund

I have an interview for a Job at Stagecoach Gillmoss (Liverpool) on Monday for a Cleaner, Fueller, Shunter Job, does anyone else on here work in the Bus Industry?