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Reading Buses is going against the national trend by recording an increased number of journeys. While the number of journeys in other parts of the country has dropped by 0.8 per cent Reading ...
Amtrak launched the bus service between Reading and Philadelphia, with a stop in Pottstown, in June 2022. In dropping the route, Amtrak said ridership was too low to warrant continuing the service.
Jeffrey CunninghamReading specialist Linda Lutke, reading paraprofessional Deb Oros, and bus driver Connie Merrill take a break from getting the bus ready for the season.
The bus features the so-called climate stripes, first created by Professor Ed Hawkins, a University of Reading academic, in 2018. Each stripe shows a year's average temperature since the 1860s.
Last year more than 2.8 billion bus journeys were made in England. That's 1.3 billion fewer than before Covid and the government is keen to get more people out of cars and on to public transport.
The Reading Buses single deck vehicle achieved a top speed of 80.73 miles per hour and an average speed over a full lap of 76.785 mph.
Plans to introduce six new bus lanes on key routes in Reading are set to be approved, despite criticism from local businesses. The lanes would be introduced on Oxford Road, Bath Road, Southampton ...
Reading Mayor Tony Page said while welcoming the cap "there are many parts of the country, particularly rural areas where the nearest bus is in a museum" and "they simply don't have those services".
Amtrak launched the bus service between Reading and Philadelphia, with a stop in Pottstown, in June 2022. In dropping the route, Amtrak said ridership was too low to warrant continuing the service.