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First West Yorkshire releases consultation responses for their ‘New Bus for West Yorkshire’ project

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New Bus for West Yorkshire is a vision from First Group to deliver radically improved bus services in West Yorkshire. Their package of measures includes new buses, smart ticketing and targeted infrastructure changes to speed up journeys. First Group want to achieve by radically changing bus services in the region of West Yorkshire. First Group borrowed the New  Routemaster  bus from TFL to demonstrate i t around West Yorkshire during the year 2014. They did this in order to collect surveys and information from people that are interested in the new proposal for a bus with a similar concept to the New  Routemaster  bus from London. What are the proposals First Group want for users in West Yorkshire? Their proposals are as follow: ·           A bus in a similar concept to the ‘New  Routemaster ’. ·           Two staircases and three doors for faster boarding. ·   ...

2015 prices for tour buses in London

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NOTE : Please read the latest article where I forgot to mention about the prices for 'City Tour London.' This is a follow up to my  previous article  which I wrote in April, 2014. I am writing this to show the comparative prices of various sightseeing tour operations between different private companies. I am also comparing them to London Transport Bus services', because not everyone can afford to use the open top bus services. You can see the table below Big Bus Tour City Sightseeing/The Original Tour Golden Tou r s London Transport Bus services Adult £32.00 Online £24.99 Child £12.00 Online £12.00 Family £65.99 Online £59.99 All 24 hour ticket City Sightseeing prices Adult £30.00 Child £15.00 The Original Tour prices Adult £29.00 Online £25.50 Child £14.00 Online £12.00 Family £86.00 Online £72.00 All 24 hour ticket Adult £26.00 Child £12.00 Family £65.00 All 24 hour ticket Oyster Pay as you go and/or contactless bank card single fare £1.50 Daily Price cap  (for buses o...

Two former bendy bus routes to be served by New Routemasters (Routes 12 & 149)

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Routes 12 and 149 are to be served by New Routemasters. According to London Bus Routes, it says “ Route 12 - New bus for London double deckers introduced. Expected Date: March 2015 . ” I think these new buses will start in late March because the New Routemasters are still being delivered to Bow Garage for route 15. LOTS have reported that Route “ 149 re-awarded to Arriva London North with New Routemasters, PVR (Peak Vehicle Requirement) 38, start date 17 October 2015 . ” This seems a long time to wait for the users of route 149 to have New Routemaster buses. It's not that London Bus Routes 12 and 148 used to be served by  Mercedes Citaro  Artics ,  they were served by  AEC Routemasters  as well.  Brief history of the routes AEC Routemasters started daily operation on Route 12 on 17/02/ 1973,  this lasted until 06/11/2004 when they were replaced by Mercedes Citaro Artics. The bendy buses were withdrawn on 05/11/2011 in favour of the Wrightbus Volvo Hyb...

Happy 10th Birthday Dailymotion

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Yes this is where my videos are hosted. Dailymotion was first founded on 15 th  March 2005 by Benjamin Bejbaum and Olivier Poitrey from the living room of Poitrey's apartment in France. The six individuals involved, pooled together €6,000 to start their video sharing website.  Dailymotion offered users simple functionalities such as video upload from file or webcam. Their video player uses flash and has a browsing system sorted by channels, user-created groups and tags. Then in 2006 the website added more functions such as allowing users to follow and recommend video's to other users, subscribe to channels and add friends in a similar fashion to a social media website. They also optimised the sharing options so that users could embed their video and host it on their website or blogs. Another feature which was added was ' statistics ', which allows users to see which of their video's are popular. Then in 2008 their website launched in several other languages and the...