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Both of those sections relate to the power to revoke licenses. Worse case scenario, indeed a previous enquiry had similar wording in notices and proceedings beforehand.

Yourbus have a date with the traffic commissioner on the 13th January. Not the start to the year they were perhaps hoping for!

Very little I'd imagine, they're only competing with a small number of services which remain busy from what I see. In fact, H1 now runs more frequently and Zoom, launched in the wake of Y5, carries very healthy loads. There have been hints from the social media teams that indigo is due some...

Indeed. A lot of the Derbyshire Contracts they operate were won off (read undercut) Doyles and look what happened to them! A lot of other routes were won off operators who ran the services with far less dead mileage- all the Ashbourne services spring to mind. You see the odd busy bus on...

Their areas of work in recent years: National express (once a sizeable operation): all contracts lost Tuxford depot contracted work: all lost Durham depot services: depot closed Derbyshire CC contracts: Matlock area services lost to Littles, another lost to G & J Holmes...

I wonder if the X38 tempos will be coming off to increase the frequency of the Rushcliffe Mainline which is often said to be overcrowded. The timetable for Skylink express is now online. 35 minute journey time which allows for 3 coaches with 20 minutes layover time.

Loadings on both the 36 and Y36 do seem fairly low recently, given that the two routes directly compete I imagine that neither operator wants to make the first move with cuts but I dare say they're inevitable. Y36 is/was one of yourbus' strongest routes too.

Yes ADL Enviro 200 MMC YX65 RLO is currently on loan. It's spent today doing a 'V' shape, Eastwood(?) to Victoria on Rainbow One, Victoria to Ilkeston on the two and then the reverse. It's running without a ticket machine (so free trips) and is supplementary to the timetable rather than running...

Bus use in Reading is also three times higher than the national average so they must be doing something right. Other cities with significantly higher averages are Nottingham and Brighton- clearly quality operators make a big impact on people's perception of buses.

I've just received the following email: "Important information regarding your MANGO On Monday 14 December 2015 the Nottingham Post incorrectly reported that MANGO is being phased out after the introduction of a new multi-operator smartcard in Nottingham. We would like to clarify that MANGO...

I see this from a different perspective. Nottingham has one of the highest rates of bus use in the country. Whilst a bus focused council no doubt helps, I believe that this is due to two strong, customer focused operators in Trent Barton and NCT. This has led to operators 'cherry picking'...

That may be D2N2's aim but they can't force an operator to not use their own card. I'm sure each operator would rather customers bought their own card and then they're committed to using their services. For example, at the QMC, a passenger with a genie/mango/easycard will use the service they...

I doubt mango will be retired, given that it can be used across the Trent Barton network rather than just Nottingham.

The 56 is another route that runs from Heslington East to Heslington West, and then goes down Lawrence Street and Walmgate, past King's Manor and on to Foss Islands. It uses 1 branded single decker.

Changes to indigo from the end of January too.

I would imagine so, that's what happens if one of the Club Class coaches is off. The only 'spare' coach is the Red Arrow branded spare as they can only go on a limited number of routes. That being said, it would have been an idea to brand a coach in a generic livery to cover Skylink express and...

Three coaches branded, 90 min round trip, half hourly service.

There was once a pn Arriva service from Swad via Melbourne which was withdrawn and Midland Classic once ran a service from that area to the airport, although I seem to remember that that service was withdrawn as the traffic commissioner reduced their vehicle allowance (I may well be wrong). It...

I've read elsewhere that the fast skylink bus is happening, with Irizar i4 coaches from Red Arrow

IT does make me chuckle that the 'premium' services being offered by Arriva, Stagecosch, NXWM etc are offering buses at the specification that Trent Barton (amongst others) were specifying as their standard spec back in 2007. They've since moved on from concepts such as leather seats as they're...