If you're reading this article on a bus this evening, you could be one of a diminishing number, if transport giant FirstGroup's predictions are anything to go by... more
Serco, organiser of the Boris Bike scheme, spends up to £385 million buying one of India's biggest outsourcers from Blackstone, the US private-equity giant... more
FirstGroup refuses to sign a three-year extension to run the First Great Western route into Paddington, forcing the Government to tender the franchise as a long-term contract much earlier than it had planned... more
Some of Britain's bus routes face little or no competition, leaving passengers suffering from infrequent services and higher fares, declares the Competition Commission... more
FirstGroup, the transport giant which runs the First Capital Connect service into St Pancras, admits its yellow school bus business in the US is strangling its recovery elsewhere... more
FirstGroup winces from the impact of higher fuel costs and public spending cutbacks in America as it posts a 10% fall in full-year pre-tax profit... more
FirstGroup is hoping its dog of an American inter-city coach business picks up over Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year after recession-hit Greyhound was found to have eaten into its British parent’s profits ... more
Britain's £3.6 billion-a-year local buses industry is to be referred to the competition watchdog after it was claimed that restricted competition on many routes has almost certainly made fares too high... more
Greyhound bus is coming to Britain for the first time in its 95-year history — although it will serve rather more prosaic routes between Victoria and the south coast... more
National Express could fall to a hostile bidder or a defensive merger with a rival after the opening shot in what could be a series of takeover battles in the train and bus industry... more
If National Express were forced into the arms of FirstGroup or were to opt for a defensive merger with one of the other big five British train companies, it would be vindication for all those who criticised the great 1990s sell-off of the railways.... more
FirstGroup, which runs First Great Western Trains as well as lots of London buses, has slashed its chief executive’s pay by a fifth after profits fell 21% last year... more
FirstGroup, which runs First Great Western Trains as well as lots of London buses, has slashed its chief executive’s pay by a fifth after profits fell 21% last year... more
Boris Johnson's campaign team today denied claims he was set to sack current Tube and bus bosses and replace them with private sector figures if he is elected... more
The country's worst performing rail company, First Great Western, has been ordered to hire new drivers, guards and engineers, pay passengers more compensation and cut fares... more
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