Six bus operators awarded to develop safety improvements for London Buses

London Bus operators - Abellio, CT Plus, Go-Ahead, RATP-Dev, Tower Transit and Metroline have been awarded funding to develop safety improvements for their fleet of buses.

From TfL press release

TfL has awarded a £500,000 pot to six bus operators to develop new ideas that will improve safety across London's bus network.

The successful bids from the TfL Bus Safety Innovation Fund were announced yesterday at the London Bus Safety Summit.

London Bus tender awards for the start of November 2017

Routes N550 & N551 will be the next to convert to the E400H City buses

As we are now in November, TfL has announced the London Bus route tender awards for the start of the month.

From LOTS news:

LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:

Papers for 8th February 2017 TFL board meeting

TFL have released the first board papers for this year, so I will be showing you bits from the board papers (dated 8^th February 2017) to see how Transport for London are progressing.

To begin with I will show you some extracts from the Commissioners report.

Bus types revealed for new London Bus routes - 13, 360 and 388

Route 13 will be using buses of this design

As the real route 13 will be withdrawn soon and route 82 will be renumbered to 13 in order to retain the route 13 identity, London Bus Routes has revealed the bus type for the new route 13 contract.

CT Plus gains two bus routes from TFL tender awards

CT Plus operates the stylish Enviro400H City on route 26

I have a short news update: a social enterprise bus company based in Hackney called CT Plus has gained two new London Bus route contracts as well as retaining three of their routes.

Wrightbus unveils their open top bus

Below are some short articles from the Route One website. In the first article they are reporting that Wrightbus has unveiled their open top bus design which is aimed at Tour bus companies.

From Route One

Wrightbus is currently building a new bespoke open-topper for a yet-to-be-named UK customer.

To be used on tourist sightseeing, it is on Volvo’s B5 chassis and the structure has been redesigned to account for the open-top section. The front section also has two opening sunroofs.

To provide a glazed section in place of the thick A-pillar on the top deck, the frontal structure has been redesigned.

CT Plus orders 21 Enviro400H City buses

They will be on route 26 operated by CT Plus

LOTS (London Omnibus Traction Society) news have issued their weekend London Bus News update for enthusiasts and this time CT Plus has finally placed an order with Alexander Dennis for 21 Enviro400H City buses.

From LOTS news: