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Today's news is nothing short of what was expected, especially after the government limited the rise in rail fares in January 2012, to continue subsidising rail fare rises each year goes not only against the political interest to make the railways more efficient but also against current...

The priority at the moment is for metro services to Yate, once these are established I believe Thornbury is planned as a future extension of services.

SYPTE reject option of Quality Contracts in hope of Voluntary partnership, anyone aware of whether the local operators have approved the plans and whether it includes maximum fares? http://www.transportxtra.com/magazines/local_transport_today/news/?id=31669

It depends on the site, for example the proposed 10,000 properties on the site of Filton airfield does not have any CIL plans for a station or to even bring into use the Henbury loop, this is being seen as independent through major scheme grants. I factored in your arguments about the cost of...

As stated at the time Ilkeston is likely to get the nod, I'm slightly put off by the £20m figure which would indicate some 4 stations in total for what appears to be the foreseeable future...isn't there a XC Parkway near Leamington that often gets talked about?

In response to your question, any "normal" stopping bus service operated between 0930 and 2300 is free for those with concessionary passes, the scheme was designed so that no bus operator would be worse off or better off then if the scheme wasn't in operation. Essentially it is the local...

Do you know how well this seems to have worked? I read some documents regarding the new Barnsley bus station and the requirements from operators ie. Euro emissions, Low Floor, etc but had heard in reality it often changed very little (the SQBP)

I've been reading nibbles in various magazines, websites and official reports for some time about certain ITAs going down the route of quality contracts, I think considering the knowledge on this forum it is about time that we had a dedicated thread to keep track of what could be a revolution in...

Arguably Portishead is going ahead now with the Bristol Metro project, I was somewhat surprised not to see any of these routes such as Skelmersdale or Burton to Leicester (or even a stub to just Coalville) announced in CP5 bearing in mind the current Government's agenda of investing in...

Very interesting indeed, I was always under the impression that platform 6 was to be converted into an island platform to make the extra platform, I believe provision is made for it in the city council's hub project but as others has said this stubbing of platform 4 and adding a smaller platform...

In response to some of the arguments put forward by bb21 I'll counter as follows. Part of the advantage of trolleybuses over conventional electric buses is that they run on fixed infrastructure and therefore unlike conventional electric buses do not suffer from limitation of range, by not...

The Caen system of Guided Light Transit is of course being replaced by Light Rail by 2018. In fact Bombardier are no longer promoting this form of urban guided transit. I'd expect the new trolleybuses to have some sort of capacitor to allow them to overtake and to take into account diversions...

As a point of interest I thought that NCT's CityCards weren't ITSO compliant whereas the Freedom Passes are, can you explain how the non-ITSO CityCards work on the apparent ITSO machines NCT use?

It's widely acknowledged that the UK went beyond the remit of Directive 91/440 which states The main issue in the UK with regards to public ownership of the Railways is the 1993 Railways Act, which unlike the 1986 Deregulation Act for Buses does not allow the public sector to operate...

It appears from my research that the scheme is £20m, with a considerable input from the Community Infrastructure Levy, which compared to other BRT schemes is small fry. I'm not overly convinced looking at the visualisations that sufficient measures are in place to deter motorists from using the...

I am inclined to agree considering the financial debt that the City Council has been plunged into by the contract issues regarding the tram system. If it was to be sold, I expect that the tram service operation would be kept in municipal operation as a piecemeal offer.

I was referring to Bath, where Rotala claim Uni Connect is commerically operated, within Bristol the Wessex Red sub-brand of Rotala has taken over, using Red Diamond style adverts (also similar to Wellglades) on buses to encourage more take up by the general public, as far as I am aware it is...

Reading is constantly reported in the media because of the large number of creative classes in the Thames Valley area commuting to London, however I agree with your points regarding improvements are coming. I think the main gripe with many is that while the fare payer is contributing £6.5bn...

Out of curiosity Ivo how does Rotala's Uni-Connect and Royal Bath services compare with those of First? Incidentally I was under the impression that Uni-Connect was a commercial operation, do First or anyone else run any services under contract to the University?

The LSTF funding from the DfT in July 2011 was for an ITSO smartcard across Nottingham including the ambitious task of reissuing 300,000 CityCards. http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=26672&p=0