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Megabus

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
Stagecoach Group

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
Stagecoach bus driver proposal

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

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 Scottish fare structure

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

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

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.

electric bus manchester

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

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