Stagecoach confirms sale of its inter-city coach businesses
Stagecoach's agreement will provide certainty for the inter-city coach businesses' employees and ensure its continued growth in the inter-city coach market.
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Stagecoach's agreement will provide certainty for the inter-city coach businesses' employees and ensure its continued growth in the inter-city coach market.
In addition to preventing bridge strikes, the new intelligent system will give Stagecoach drivers instant feedback about their driving manoeuvres to encourage safer driving that is more comfortable for passengers.
With the first vehicles to be launched later in 2022, Liverpool City Region's new zero-emission buses will carry a range of special features to enhance the customer experience, including wireless charging and internet access.
This new deal will fit with Stagecoach’s existing operations around east and southeast London and will see the company operate 150 buses under 11 contracts for Transport for London.
With national statistics showing that only 11 per cent of engineers are female, Stagecoach celebrates its increasing number of female engineers and highlights key initiatives it is working on to encourage gender diversity across the industry.
Stagecoach’s new customer contact centre will help encourage more people to make the switch away from cars to public transport by providing them with the best possible service.
The new Leicester Buses Partnership will focus on key transport development projects, in order to combat congestion, offer affordable fares and provide better facilities for bus travellers in the city.
Stagecoach is celebrating its female employees with the launch of a new employee network, an all-female driver bus route and announcing an 18 per cent increase in female driver applications since 2021.
The CAVForth project will see Stagecoach operate four full-sized autonomous single-decker buses between Fife and Edinburgh in 2022.
Stagecoach has called on COP26 leaders to motivate people to change the way that they travel in favour of public transport in order to tackle ambitious emission reduction targets.
Stagecoach is now more than halfway to reaching the goal of five per cent of employees in ‘earn and learn’ positions, with a total of 790 employees currently in apprenticeship roles.
The 'Road to Renewables' electric bus is driving from London to Glasgow ahead of COP26, stopping along the way at multiple destinations to highlight various projects that are driving the transition to net zero in the UK.
In order to incentivise passenger return to Britain’s buses post-pandemic, Stagecoach has submitted a six-point plan with a raft of policy proposals to the UK government for consideration ahead of the Spending Review in October 2021.
The two bus operators could merge in a deal which would see them control a fleet of 36,000 vehicles operating in the UK as well as in Europe, in a bid to reduce running costs.
Among the projects funded by the competition is the retrofitting of a diesel-powered double-decker bus, and the development of hydrogen-powered vehicles for the emergency services in the region.