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megabus coach services to re-start on Monday 29 March
- Coach services to play crucial role as the country opens up allowing people to see friends and family and take staycations
- Services to link key towns and cities across the UK
- Extensive safety measures in place to allow customers to travel with confidence
- Bookings can be made at megabus.com
Scotland to benefit from £21.4m investment in new electric buses in key Stagecoach transport networks
- Funding made available through Scottish Government’s Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme
- 22 double-deckers and 24 single-decker electric buses for Aberdeen, Kilmarnock and Perth
- Major investment totalling £11m in Aberdeen, £6m in Kilmarnock and £4.4m in Perth
- Buses all built in Scotland by leading bus manufacturer ADL with Perth and Aberdeen infrastructure provided by SSE
- Boost for Scotland’s world-leading bus manufacturing sector helping protect and grow jobs
Love is in the air at Stagecoach as special bus display helps romantic driver to pop the question
- Romantic Stagecoach Exeter bus driver Chris Oakley proposes to his fellow driver partner with a special bus bearing a 'Will you Marry Me?' display
- Chris and Fiona met whilst in 2019 whilst both driving buses for Stagecoach
- Love blossomed for the pair during training
Stagecoach invests in new technology to help plan the bus networks of the future
- Investment will help plan the changes in travel coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic
- New AI platform Optibus will help improve service delivery and provide more efficient timetables
- State-of-the-art artificial intelligence, advanced algorithms and cloud computing used to make timetables smarter
- Major technological transformation will enable quicker roll out of electric buses
New fare structure makes it easier to travel across Scotland with Stagecoach
- New Flexi 5 ticket to help customers changing travel patterns
- New range of easy and simple ticket types with more flexible options
- Public transport will continue to play a key role in meeting Scotland’s environmental targets
Stagecoach bus drivers continue to lead the way in safe and fuel-efficient driving scheme
- Over 5,000 Stagecoach drivers achieve GreenRoad Fleet Elite status
- Advanced safety & telematics system continuously checks driving manoeuvres and helps improve fuel efficiency
- Continued investment in training and new technology to make bus services even safer
National Apprenticeship Week: helping our young people and building the country’s skills base
As National Apprenticeship Week gets underway today, Stagecoach has released an opinion piece from its UK Managing Director, Carla Stockton-Jones.
Stagecoach sets out package of partnership measures in Greater Manchester to help post-Covid acceleration of bus use
- Two-year bus programme can help Greater Manchester economy recover from pandemic
- Pilot projects could help deliver National Bus Strategy and speed up bus use across Britain
- Initiatives include mobility credits, greener buses, bus priority and e-bike/e-scooter links
- Trials of new on-demand services proposed to reflect changed working and travel patterns
- Recovery Partnership blueprint can help inform way forward for regional bus networks
- A 1% switch away from cars could increase bus use in Greater Manchester by 12% or more
Stagecoach becomes first UK bus operator to invest in national roll-out of new bridge alert technology
- £4m project to strengthen existing safety measures to prevent bridge strikes
- Enhancement to GreenRoad’s leading driver safety and fuel-efficiency system
- Technology to cover 8,000 buses in England, Scotland and Wales by summer 2021