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Leicester Buses Tap On Tap Off Multi-Operator Contactless Capping Update – 1 Year Later
- First multi-operator contactless capping scheme to launch in the UK with over 99% of passenger journeys covered by the scheme
- 183,000 passenger journeys in a year
- Combined passenger savings of £131,000 over the past year
- Winner of Transport Ticketing Global Award for Best Smart Ticketing Programme 2023 (<200k daily journeys)
First Bus praised for doubling female workforce since 2017
- First Bus is included in Close the Gap’s 2023 gender pay gap reporting assessment
- It highlights long-term action First Bus has taken to tackle barriers faced by women in male-dominated roles.
- Introduction of part-time bus driver roles has resulted in 50% of new hires being women, a huge increase from 2% in 2017.
First Bus purchase new site to create new ‘super bus depot’ in Portsmouth
- First Bus have purchased the old Daily Mail processing centre in Portsmouth.
- The new site will become a purpose built all-electric site fit to host their new electric bus fleet of the future.
- The new depot will take up to 2-3 years to build and represents a significant investment and future commitment to bus services in Portsmouth.
- First Bus will be launching 62 brand-new all-electric buses from April 2024 from its existing Hoeford depot site.
First Bus purchase new site to create new ‘super bus depot’ in Portsmouth
- First Bus have purchased the old Daily Mail processing centre in Portsmouth.
- The new site will become a purpose built all-electric site fit to host their new electric bus fleet of the future.
- The new depot will take up to 2-3 years to build and represents a significant investment and future commitment to bus services in Portsmouth.
- First Bus will be launching 62 brand-new all-electric buses from April 2024 from its existing Hoeford depot site.
Money-saving tickets introduced to First Glasgow’s payment technology
- New, better value bundle tickets added to Glasgow’s Tap On Tap Off technology
- Fares review will see prices for existing tickets increase from Sunday 2nd April 2023
First Aberdeen announces launch of Tap On Tap Off ticket technology from April
- New, better value on bus payment system coming to Aberdeen next month
- Fares review will see prices for existing tickets increase
‘Bus depot of the future’ launches in Leicester as one of the UK’s first fully electric depots outside of London
- First Bus’ Leicester depot will join York and Norwich to become one of the UK’s first three fully electrified bus depots outside of London
- The ‘bus depot of the future’ sets a precedent for UK-wide road transport decarbonisation
- First Bus Leicester will have 86 new electric buses expected on public roads by March 2024
- This brings the total investment across all ZEBRA projects that First Bus is delivering to £92m, alongside ZEBRA funding of £66m.
‘Bus depot of the future’ to launch in Leicester as one of the UK’s first fully electric depots outside of London
- First Bus’ Leicester depot will join York and Norwich to become one of the UK’s first three fully electrified bus depots outside of London
- The ‘bus depot of the future’ sets a precedent for UK-wide road transport decarbonisation
- First Bus Leicester will have 86 new electric buses expected on public roads by March 2024
- This brings the total investment across all ZEBRA projects that First Bus is delivering to £92m, alongside ZEBRA funding of £66m.
First Manchester to begin trial of fully electric bus in Oldham
- Bus to operate on services 425 and 57
- Partnership with local manufacturer Mellor, based in Rochdale
