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Friday, 16 March 2018

BBC News

• Bus drivers in Aberdeen begin strike action over payAn overtime ban and several days of walkouts are planned by First Aberdeen bus drivers who are members of Unite.

Coach and Bus Week

• DfT commits to improving wheelchair access to busesStakeholder group calls on Government to give drivers powers to remove a passenger from the bus if they refuse to vacate a wheelchair space

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• Widespread coach electrification still a way off?Neither Daimler nor MAN looking at e-coaches, but short-distance zero-emission capability more likely

Green Miscellany

• HGVs in bus lanesBus lanes can get pretty crowded these days. As well as buses of all sizes, they can now find themselves home to taxis, motorcycles, mopeds, scooters and tricycles (non-motorised and motorised). Oh, and in amongst all that lot, bicycles are permitted to use them as a refuge of sorts. With all this in mind, news comes that HGVs in Wales… The post HGVs in bus lanes appeared first on ETA.