The WA Government has awarded a five year contract to Volvo Bus to produce 65 low floors a year from mid-2011 in partnership with Volgren, leaving Mercedes-Benz behind
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Higer’s ‘snow bus’ passes milestone
The first Higer bus sold in Australia has just passed a two-year milestone, traversing tough road conditions in the Snowy Mountains region of southern NSW
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Bus delivers night travel ‘gold’
A growing call to address safety concerns for party goers on the Coolangatta-Tweed Heads border has been addressed with a new NightLink bus service starting this month
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New leader for Cubic’s smartcard team
As the Pearl Consortium heads into the engineering phase of Sydney’s smartcard system, partnering firm Cubic has brought in a leading design engineer to get things moving
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Green’s death tax plan riles Pakula
The Green’s plan for a death tax in Victoria could have implications for public transport
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Auction action lands bus bidding record
Action aplenty at this week’s BIC Conference Big Arvo Out with an auction record falling and an operator taking delivery of a specced-up school bus, already assigned to a fleet upgrade program
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BIC goes to Fiji
The big picture approach to the BIC National Conference, held in Sydney this week, will have run its course by 2011 as delegates look towards structuring the bus and coach industry into the next decade
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Paper tickets to stay in 2011
The Queensland Government has given over to public pressure, opting to keep a paper ticket system on its TransLink network, but the price of travel in Brisbane and surrounds will go up in January
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Volvo Bus lands winning trifecta
Australia’s leading chassis supplier, Volvo Bus, keeps racking up the wins taking out the BIC National Supplier of the Year award in Sydney this week
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Weird and wonderful
China is a mystical land full of novel ideas and designs, the latest being a 9 metre electric bus, which its manufacturers would like to see on Australian roads
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