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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Manchester Evening News

• Transport bosses promise bus services will continue as Hyde-based Speedwell foldsPassengers have been promised that services will continue after a bus company ceased trading. Hyde-based Speedwell ran 10 bus routes in Hyde, Glossop, Oldham and Ashton-under- Lyne before it suddenly pulled its vehicles from the road.

Yorkshire Evening Post

• ˜Boycott buses™ plea in fares protestBoycott a bus – that’s the call from transport campaigners today to passengers across West Yorkshire.
• 30,000 flout new Leeds bus lane rulesA Leeds city centre enforcement camera snapping motorists illegally nipping into bus lanes to avoid traffic congestion is proving a mega money spinner for the council.

Bus and Coach.com

• OFT may investigate McGill™s takeoverThe Office of Fair Trading is considering an investigation into the acquisition by McGill™s Bus Service of Arriva Scotland West.
• Scottish government to fund more hybridsThe Scottish government this week announced a further £2million to support the introduction of low-carbon buses.
• Optare announces new minibusOptare is pulling out of coach sales, ending its agreement with Spanish builder Ferqui to sell the Mercedes-Benz-based Sirocco and Toro.
• King Long splits from BMCThe King Long and BMC businesses in the UK have reached what King Long Direct director Paul Bicknell describes as an œamicable commercial divorce� and the business will now be concentrating exclusively on King Long products.
• Stagecoach franchises Sussex serviceA Stagecoach service in West Sussex has been taken over by Compass Travel of Worthing under a franchise arrangement.
• Expansion coming at Epsom CoachesWith the winning of two Transport for London contracts starting in April and June the Epsom Coaches Group will need an extra 50 drivers for its Quality Line bus division.
• Multi-operator ticket for St AlbansA multi-operator ticket, Busnet, has been launched in St Albans as part of the Network St Albans partnership.