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From Sunday, direct coaches are no more. Coaches to continue to be used west of Bedford, double deckers (unspecified, and no depot yet specified) on the eastern section. The note about bikes in the announcement is because at present you can turn up with a "normal" bike and sling it in the...

I don't think this is just going to be Busway/Fenstanton depot- I've seen a bus or two on Cambridge Citi routes, without guidewheels, so almost certainly Cowley Road depot, in the plain green.

said materials will probably meet a specific flame retardant standard based not on stopping the fire completely but ensuring a certain escape time from the vehicle. Making them truly fireproof would damage other physical properties- unless you want to have an interior with no upholstery, made...

Cambridge Park and Ride are just taking delivery of a new fleet, in five colour variations of the "beach ball" livery (as part of a reorganisation from three routes serving the five sites to separate routes for each site) Cambridge has one route in Stagecoach Gold branding, the 13/X13/13A...

The first two crashes were the bus drivers speeding For this, either the bus driver or the van driver has jumped a red light. I'd guess at the delivery van. Gets more attention than any similar collision at a normal road junction, the likes of which happens up and down the country many times a...

it's utterly barking- only possible on wide roads (need to still have clear lanes for vehicles that can't fit underneath) and the elevated platforms require quite a footprint by the side of the road for access

It appears that the bus company are squarely blaming the driver. It did happen at the single-double track transition, for which I believe there's a 30mph speed limit (think it's 50 or 55mph generally on the system). If I were a betting man I'd reckon the angle they're investigating is that the...

The thing with Trams and Trolleys for Oxford Street is that it isn't just the pollution. With the sheer number of pedestrians the footways become very crowded with people spilling into the carriageway. Further, the sheer number of buses is down to a large number of routes- there are six west...

Careful now, if you're man to those poor downtrodden cabbies by suggesting they actually have to comply with the law you'll be accused of being worse than Stalin or something.

In recent times there's been a burst of retiring younger buses due to the requirements to go low-floor for accessibility, which has probably warped any statistics somewhat.

Buried in this (not recreating it all, as it's huge) is this little paragraph At yesterday's "20s Plenty" conference in Cambridge TfLs Ben Jonhson expanded a little on this, saying that the intention is to fit ISA to buses to help enforce the 20mph limit (among other objectives). It's an...

Can't work in the UK- for a start, our cities (thankfully) don't have extensive massive freeways that could be converted. Some of Birmingham's dual carriageway ring road might sort of work?

reform the school system in England so that all Primary schools (at the very least) are secular, state run and have defined, non-overlapping catchment areas removing "choice" from parents. Make sure that catchment area boundaries take into account barriers such as rivers, motorways, railway...

The main reason First are opposed to the trolley scheme is that it would potentially loosen their grip on Leeds... As to quite why they want overweight, oversized beasts with capacity issues (due to weight), that aren't as efficient as claimed and have poor cooling, really not quite sure there...

This is true of petrol and diesel as well. Liquid/gaseous fuels, be they fossil fuel or otherwise, are useful only because they're transportable and easily converted into power.

"gas" buses during WW2 would presumably have been running on coal gas- a mix of hydrogen, carbon monoxide ethylene and methane- produced at the local gas works. Buses running on what we now call "gas" (methane, mainly) won't be true "zero emissions"- they'll still have tail pipe CO2...

Indeed. Just highlighting that there's a difference- all these other old buses are because the operators find it more economic to not replace them!

The RM operations in London though are a deliberate heritage initiative and are additional to a high-frequency service using modern (accessible) buses.

Often drive in/reverse out bus stations are designed so that only the front door is next to a boarding gate. This of course doesn't actually prohibit a two-door bus, as they're all able to have just the front door open...

Still going to be easier, generally, than the old high floor designs