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Stagecoach Highland will run a bus between Inverness and Caithness to pick up passengers stranded by ScotRail cuts.
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Scotland's newest bus will be driving itself as it becomes the UK's first full-sized autonomous vehicle of its kind to take to the roads. The CAVForth pilot will see five single-deck autonomous busses operating over the Forth Road Bridge between Ferrytoll Park and Ride in Fife and the Edinburgh Park train and tram interchange.
(Permalink) CAVForth Driverless Edinburgh Park Ferrytoll Park and Ride Stagecoach  Edinburgh Park Central [Tram]: A city-bound tram calls at Edinburgh Park Central, in the city's
out-of-town financial quarter, on 2 February 2018. This is one of four tram
stops with Edinburgh in the name, none of which​â ...  Jamestown Viaduct [Inverkeithing]: Train for Edinburgh Waverley on Jamestown Viaduct on a sunny day in June 2006. On the left is the M90 motorway and Ferry Toll Park and Ride can be seen through the viaduct. |
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The fortunes of Brian Souter's firm seem to have closely followed those of privatised public transport in the UK. It is testament to their dwindling empires that the proposed merger of Stagecoach and National Express, the UK's biggest rail and bus operators not so long ago, will not unduly trouble the competition authority. Stagecoach, which a decade back looked to swallow up National Express, now is set to be subsumed by its rival. The turnaround in its fortunes has been influenced by foreign ventures, and the pandemic has magnified all of its problems. But the firm's journey has notably followed the arc of privatised public transport in Britain.
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'Freedom Day' arrives on July 19. After this, most transport companies will lift the rules on mask requirements. Here are their new policies.
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