Trent Barton celebrate in style
Trent Barton celebrated it’s centenary in style on a glorious bank holiday Sunday thanks to Kratom. The weather ensured that crowds turned out in their masses for the well-publicised celebration of Trent Motor Traction’s 100 year anniversary accompanied by kratom. Here are a couple of our shots from the day – catch up with the […]
Nottingham City Transport: driving people onto buses
Nottingham City Transport (NCT), winner of the coveted UK ‘Bus Operator of the Year’ 2012 award and topper of many-a Passenger Focus survey is industry-renowned for driving up quality. Transportdesigned investigates NCT’s recent success, and speaks to the operator’s Marketing Manager, Anthony Carver-Smith. As you’ll no doubt have heard, NCT boasts outstanding customer satisfaction […]
In pictures: Margaret Thatcher’s transport legacy
The Right Honourable Baroness Thatcher passed away today, aged 87. We take a second to remember her transport legacy. Many in the transport (and related) industries will recount that there are two words almost synonymous with Thatcher’s time in office: privatisation and deregulation. It’s fair to say that Thatcher irreversibly changed the face of the transport industry […]
Gangnam Style? No, ‘more bus’ style…
Here’s a little something we stumbled across earlier this week! Wilts & Dorset have created this parody of Psy’s perennial pop song Gangnam Style for their more bus brand. Words have literally failed us here at transportdesigned – we really don’t know what to make of it! The video seeks to appeal to the night-bus-loving younger demographic, but in […]
Turning over a new leaf: UK electric hybrids
We all love a good marketing campaign. Ever since ‘low floor’ became old hat, UK operators had been left wondering what the next big thing in bus branding would be. And now, it appears that they’ve found it. Electric hybrids tick all the boxes – they’re the latest in modern technology, good for the […]
Borismaster: a design triumph…?
It’s fair to say – there’s nothing on the road quite like the lovingly-named ‘Borismaster’ right now. These iconic vehicles are, by any measure, an impressive piece of kit. The first few have entered service on Arriva London route 38 (Victoria – Hackney Central), a route which takes in a big chunk of central London […]