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Malta's new bus service causes problems. Malta has a new bus service, and it is causing problems not just in Valletta but even in Brussels. 

Coach and bus passenger waiting for improved rights will have to display patience. New rights for Europe's bus and coach passengers are hanging in the balance, as MEPs...

Commission wants people travelling by bus and coach to have similar rights to air passengers. New rights for Europe's bus and coach passengers inched a step closer yesterday...

European cities are investing widely in sustainable transport systems. Here we look at three distinct approaches.

Another example to add to Parliament's equivalent of the weather excuse. EU transport regulations are like buses. You hang around for ages and then three come along at once....

The motto governing public transport policy in the city of Hasselt in the east of Belgium is: “The city guarantees the right of mobility for everyone.” Hasselt has...

Also taking a star turn at the conference were SNCB, the Belgian railway company, explaining its plans to upgrade commuter lines in and out of Brussels, and STIB, the...

Planners organising Mobility Week 2006 (16-22 September) did not have to look very far when deciding on an overarching theme to define this year's event. With climate change...

The International Association of Public Transport will tomorrow (28 July) unveil the European bus of the future. The product of five years of research into bus technologies,...

In a few years' time green buses could be as familiar a sight in EU cities as the red Routemaster bus was on the streets of London. But unlike their London counterpart,...

The provision of public transport in the EU is on course for upheaval over the coming years with reforms aimed at dragging the sector into the 21st century. It could prove a...

Access to public transport for people with a disability was not at the forefront of most bus, tram and train manufacturers' minds a couple of decades ago. Despite some...

Coach and bus passengers across Europe will have to wear seatbelts from the end of this year, under new EU rules. On 26 May MEPs backed proposals to require seatbelts to be...

MANUFACTURERS must fit vans and minibuses with seatbelts by mid-2006, under tough safety rules adopted by the European Commission. The directive – part of a blueprint to...

THE EU has been urged to do more to improve access to public transport for the estimated one-in-four EU citizens who suffer from disability. The call, by the International...

A FLEET of fuel-cell buses are about to hit Europe's roads for a two-year test drive. As Loyola de Palacio, the transport and energy commissioner, told the EU's high level...

The European Union has been urged to put the brakes on the rising death toll of lorry and bus drivers on Europe's roads. Deregulation of road transport has seen a "downward...

TRANSPORT Commissioner Loyola de Palacio will call on EU governments next week to start paying public transport operators the 'market rate' for providing essential services...

ALMOST three years ago, Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock unveiled a grand scheme to lure more Europeans out of their cars and onto trams and buses. The idea behind his...

US Under-Secretary for Commerce David Aaron came up with a novel way of making the staid old practice of holding press conferences more interesting last week. Aaron was in...