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Adventure Travel is set to take over two key Vale of Glamorgan bus routes from Easyway of Pencoed following the independent company’s closure at the end of July.

Bus Users wants ‘Catch the Bus Month’ to celebrate the bus as a sustainable, inclusive and accessible form of transport that reduces congestion, improves air quality and provides access to life’s opportunities. 

The pan-European passenger transport company, Arriva Group, has announced a new Zero Emission Institute which will be led by a team of experts in fleet planning, to accelerate its journey to net-zero in partnership with cities and regions.

Transport for Wales (TfW) has trialled a new onboard digital service providing passengers with hearing loss with personalised journey information announcements.

First Cymru are relaunching their Mumbles and Porthcawl open-top Coaster bus services and introducing TWO new routes for Summer 2022: Aberavon and Tenby.

Stagecoach South Wales have unveiled a bus dressed in a jubilee livery that is showing casing in different operating areas across South Wales.

Transport for Wales is taking another step forward with its expansion of the fflecsi bus service, taking it to another part of Wales.

The hugely-popular free bus offer in the city is back for the last weekend in May and the long bank holiday weekend at the start of June. 

'Making the Connection', a new report published by Sustrans Cymru, has found that people across all parts of Wales are suffering the effects of transport poverty. 

A new Welcome Ticket will provide refugees and people from Ukraine with free bus travel and they will also receive free entry to Cadw sites across Wales.

Throughout April and May, volunteers across Wales will join Ramblers Cymru regional officers, The Wildlife Trusts Wales, Coed Cadw, the Woodland Trust in Wales, and local authorities to run various activities such as wildlife activity days, seed planting, vegetation clearance, and much more.

The research shows that 22% of people interviewed in Wales would use the bus more if Zero Emission Buses replaced local diesel buses, with 73% of people wanting to see their local bus company move to using only ZEBs.

The scheme is available for all refugees travelling to Wales searching for a safe haven in line with Welsh Government’s Nation of Sanctuary vision on production of valid proof of eligibility as listed under the terms and conditions of the scheme.

Building on the success of the popular Traveline Cymru service, the company that owns it, PTI Cymru has joined the Transport for Wales (TfW) organisation in a deal agreed by the Welsh Government to create an integrated public transport information centre fit for the future.

The Welsh Government will now work closely with local government, the bus industry and passengers on a proposed franchising model that aims to eventually deliver one network, one timetable and one ticket.

Denbighshire County Council and Transport for Wales are set to introduce a pioneering demand responsive public transport scheme in and around the Ruthin area.

Work has begun to install more than 200 life-saving defibrillators at Transport for Wales railway stations across Wales and the borders.

Bus passengers travelling across Newport during March will receive free travel thanks to a new pilot scheme being funded by the Welsh Government.

Members of the public are being invited to give their views on projects to upgrade travel links between Cardiff and Newport and to improve access to Severn Tunnel Junction railway station.

Arriva launch Tap On-Tap Off contactless payment scheme in North Wales – giving customers a new quick and easy way to pay for bus travel at the best price.