Book Description
Explore a fascinating set of photographs documenting the changing profile of buses of Arriva Merseyside.
Author : Simon Ackers
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398121088
Explore a fascinating set of photographs documenting the changing profile of buses of Arriva Merseyside.
Author : Keith A. Jenkinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445678861
A pictorial celebration of Britain's iconic bendy buses. This book takes a detailed look at the bendy buses operated in the UK and their lives since their disposal by major operators.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0215030923
Buses are a key local service, but usage has been in decline since the 1950s. The Transport Act 1985 introduced deregulation, but that has failed to reverse that decline. The report examines the particular problems local authorities face in developing and implementing effective bus strategies. It is clear to the Committee that, for many areas, including all major metropolitan areas outside London, the current regime is not working. The Committee recommends more flexibility, and is particularly attracted by Quality Contracts. These would replace open competition with a licensed regime. Operators bid for exclusive rights to run bus services on a route or group of routes, on the basis of a local authority service specification. Independent Traffic Commissioners are another development that the Committee welcomes, and would like to see them have a higher profile and more resources and powers, especially to enforce Quality Contracts and penalise operators who do not meet their obligations. Others areas covered in the report are: securing socially necessary services outside the PTAs; congestion and bus priority; concessionary fares; and the image of the bus.
Author : Bill Potter
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2000-02-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781897990735
Author : Matthew Wharmby
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473869439
Between 2002 and 2006 six of Londons bus companies put into service 390 articulated bendy buses on twelve routes for transport in London.rnrnDuring what turned out to be a foreshortened nine years in service, the Mercedes-Benz Citaro G buses familiar on the continent and worldwide earned an unenviable reputation in London; according to who you read and who you believed, they caught fire at the drop of a hat, they maimed cyclists, they drained revenue from the system due to their susceptibility to fare evasion, they transported already long-suffering passengers in standing crush loads like cattle and they contributed to the extinction of the Routemaster from frontline service. In short, it was often referred to as the bus we hated.rnrnThis account is an attempt by a long-time detractor of the bendy buses to set the vehicles in their proper context not quite to rehabilitate them, but to be as fair as is possible towards a mode of transport which felt about as un-British as could be.
Author : Simon Ackers
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 139810941X
Recording a decade of buses on Merseyside. Charting the changing vehicles, liveries, and operators over that period.
Author : Bill Potter
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN : 9781904875277
Author : Keith A. Jenkinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2024-07-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398122149
An interesting, lavishly illustrated look at how much modern technology in buses, such as the use of electric or gas instead of a combustion engine, is based on century-old technology.
Author : Keith A. Jenkinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445679361
A fascinating insight into the world of airport buses through a collection of photographs illustrating how the airport scene has changed over the past sixty years.
Author : John Law
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445669722
The author has been living in Hertfordshire since the 1970s and has built up a fantastic collection of photographs of the county’s buses, the best of which are displayed here.