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It is a funny old time of year is it not,that strange twilight zone between the festive season and the return to work. Time almost seems to stand still as the mind and body wrestle with that post party time off and the reality of getting back to the grind of daily...
So, the DFT have just published a fascinating analysis of just how the UK Bus Industry has been performing from 2009/10 up and until 2018/2019. The reality is that for key reasons of social and economic landscape change bus use has been declining over the years of...
I watched with interest the leaders debate with Mr Boris Johnson and Mr Jeremy Corbyn, it was interesting to observe the extremely contrasting styles. Both men have their critics, Boris was laughed at by the studio audience when he spoke of honesty, similarly the...
A recent article in the excellent Route One magazine, got me thinking about a subject that has long been close to my heart over the course of my career. Indeed it transformed my world quite significantly after my foray into Poland in 2003, resulting in myself and my...
As the fire and bluster of the general election gathers momentum, across the nation, it struck me that ironically the bus industry has probably never been in a better position than it is today. The reason being that both the Conservatives and the Labour Party have for...
I have been involved in the UK Bus industry for my entire career, indeed I could argue, my whole life as I was born into the bus industry, and my young future was shaped by my fathers career as a senior manager within the National Bus Company. Anyone who has been kind...
I was both honoured and delighted to be invited by the President of CILT, to attend the prestigious Institute Excellence Awards held at the very swanky Lancaster Gate Hotel, deep in central London Town. I was even more delighted to be invited to meet her royal...
I was watching a really good documentary recently about the first wave of immigrants who moved to Birmingham from Jamaica and other Caribbean Islands in the 1950’s and onwards. The generation known as Windrush, the name of the first ship that brought them to the UK,...
It is always for me anyway, a sad day when a bus Company ceases trading, especially when you have been involved in some way with the actual Company itself. My association with Yourbus goes right back to 2009, when I was working at the Diamond Bus Company in Tividale,...
So, as it happened the black dinner jacket was dusted off and black shiny shoes polished, and of course the black dickie bow tie was taken out of retirement, and given an airing at the rather splendid Hilton Metropole Hotel, located in the heart of the NEC complex....
For those solid and staid souls who have followed my ramblings since 2009 when I started this whole blog malarkey. You may have detected one theme throughout, namely my regular commentaries on the future of the UK Bus industry. If truth be told it has fluctuated quite...
It only seems like yesterday that I was bobbing along in the vast expanse of the floor number 4 at the NEC, slowly taking in all the wonders that were the Bus and Coach show 2018. For a sad old busman like me this is my regular pilgrimage to worship at the altar of...