Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire

Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire,^[1] also known as Blue Bus of Shotts or Law of Shotts, is a bus operator primarily serving the area of Shotts, North Lanarkshire in West Scotland.

It is a mainly local bus operator, based at Allanton, but is also involved in private coach business. The company was formed from the remnants of the bankrupted HAD Coaches.^[2] Blue Bus operate a variety of services across central Scotland. As of January 2016^[update] the company operates services on four routes between Lanarkshire and West Lothian.^[3] There routes restored links that had been lost since the privatisation of Scottish bus services.

Blue Bus operates a fleet of Plaxton Beaver 2s and Alexander Sprint bodied Mercedes-Benz 709Ds.

In 2010 the company said they had approached Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) asking for a route serving Torbothie, Shotts to be subsidised, but were told there was no funding available.^[4] The original service was to cease 6 May.^[5] Ultimately, however, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport agreed to subsidize the route and the route was replaced with new service 10 May 2010.^[6]

Public hearing

On the 26 Octoter 2010, the company was fined £3,500, when the Vosa bus compliance officers noted the early and late running on a number of occasions. A driver was also found to have taken a bus out of service and stopped at his house for lunch, he was sacked the same day. Blue Bus will be appealing the decision of the Traffic Commissioner.^[7]

See also

• List of bus operators of the United Kingdom

References

External links

• Blue Bus website
• Map of operations and information of services
• Flickr gallery

This page was last edited on 4 December 2023, at 01:05