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Smartphone ‘app’ provides real time information boost

Passengers can keep track of hundreds more buses at the touch of a button following a major boost to real time information on a free smartphone application.

More than 75 per cent of the region’s buses are now providing live updates to transport authority Centro’s, Network West Midlands ‘app’.

Rubbish ‘Bus’ters hit local services

Cleaners are making sure passengers get a rubbish-free ride by blitzing buses as they wait to get back on the road.

As soon as a bus and passengers have disembarked...

Triple decker bus update.

As you may be aware the triple decker buses story was not what it seemed on this April fools day.

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All night bus boost for workers and job seekers

Shift workers, job seekers and even holiday-makers are set to benefit from a new, 24 hour bus service linking some of the region’s biggest employers.

The route of the existing 97 service between Birmingham city centre, Heartlands Hospital and Chelmsley Wood is to be extended from this weekend (Sunday March 24) to also serve Birmingham Airport,

MPs unveil £3.9M investment into local bus travel

MPs Ian Austin and Pat McFadden teamed up to unveil £3.9 million of new greener, more comfortable and distinctive buses for Dudley and Wolverhampton at the Beacon Centre for the Blind.

The pair joined Peter Coates, Managing Director of National Express West Midlands and John McNicholas, Chair of Centro to unveil the new environmentally friendly hybrid buses

New buses are just what the doctor ordered

New vehicles mark the start of £10million investment into Dudley

National Express West Midlands have today unveiled eight new buses that will operate on the 222 route from Dudley to Brierley Hill via Russells Hall Hospital.

Bus advertising is child's play

National Express West Midlands is launching an exciting new competition offering schoolchildren the chance to get their drawings seen by millions of people.

To celebrate the launch of its new 'Class Pass', Birmingham's biggest private sector employer is launching a competition for children to design a new bus advert.

1,200 Jobseekers use the bus to get to interviews in January

Figures released by National Express West Midlands have revealed that over 1,200 jobseekers in the region made the most of free bus travel in January.

The region’s biggest bus company took part in the Greener Journeys' Bus for Jobs scheme, which saw jobseekers across the UK receive free bus travel for the month of January.

Clean sweep of buses across the region

Cleaners are making sure passengers in the West Midlands get a rubbish-free ride by blitzing buses as they wait to do the return legs of their routes.

As soon as customers have disembarked at bus station in Wolverhampton, Coventry, Birmingham and Solihull the cleaners sweep into action, subject to the service running on time.

MPs Join bus vandal crack down

All ten Birmingham MPs have come together to throw their weight behind National Express West Midlands’ campaign to get bus vandals the toughest possible sentences. The campaign was launched by National Express West Midlands Managing Director Peter Coates after figures showed that a mindless few vandals were causing over a million pounds of damage to the buses the city’s residents rely on.