News

• Go-Ahead’s provision of onboard WiFi has been certified for safety and family-friendly content
• The Wifi Friendly scheme was launched by David Cameron, in partnership with The UK Council for Child Internet Safety
• Free WiFi is available onboard Go-Ahead buses and trains across the country

• Go-Ahead will keep families and friends connected over Christmas with a comprehensive festive bus timetable.
• Vital services will continue throughout festive break, with buses travelling to key sites including Heathrow, Gatwick and local hospitals across the UK
• The Isle of Wight’s Southern Vectis will run buses on five routes on Christmas Day

• UK-first pilot scheme sees defibrillators fitted to Plymouth commuter services
• Ground-breaking partnership with Hearts Together will train drivers and provide instructions for passengers
•  Defibrillators raise cardiac arrest survival rates from 6% to 74%

• London’s largest bus operator comes out on top against projects from Chile and Sweden
• Landmark site in Lambeth was the UK’s first all-electric bus garage
• The introduction of Go-Ahead London’s electric buses has prevented the emission of 2,500 tonnes of CO2

• Go-Ahead’s bus companies are promoting initiatives to stop the stigma around mental health for Mental Health Awareness Week
• Go-Ahead is seeking to highlight the role of buses in tackling loneliness and poor mental health
• The company is encouraging its bus colleagues to focus on wellbeing across the UK​​​​
• The chatty bus campaign, first launched in January, was welcomed by the then minister for loneliness, Mims Davies

• Next generation electric buses will operate in a zero-emission mode when in Brighton’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone, using geofencing technology[1]
• Buses run on battery power and have a fully electric drive train, recharged by Euro 6 diesel generator when outside the Zone
• These extended range buses will run on one of Go-Ahead’s most popular routes in Brighton, served by up to 24 buses every hour
• Brighton & Hove Buses has the highest number of bus journeys per head [2]outside of London at 67.5 million journeys last year

LONDON – The Go-Ahead Group today launches a campaign to encourage more women to apply for jobs in the bus industry – including driving buses, maintaining vehicles and managing depots.

OXFORD, 25 JUNE – The UK’s largest demand-responsive bus service^[i], today celebrates its first anniversary in Oxford.

The Go-Ahead Group (LON: GOG) is to expand its landmark “air-filtering” bus programme following a successful 100-day pilot and 9,000 miles covered in Southampton.

We’re delighted to announce that as of today, Sunday 2nd June, Go North West (GNW) bus services from Queens Road depot are in operation.

A brand new form of public transport has launched today in Sutton, with the start of a 12-month ‘on-demand’ bus trial.

More than 100,000 journeys have been made on PickMeUp, Go-Ahead Group’s ground-breaking on-demand ride-sharing service since it launched in June 2018.