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Arriva The Shires Limited [3] is based in Luton and operates bus garages in Luton, Milton Keynes, Stevenage, and Hemel Hempstead. Arriva The Shires evolved from the purchase of the Luton, Aylesbury and Hitchin depots of United Counties by Luton & District Transport (LDT) in a management buy-out in 1987. [4]
Luton; Aylesbury; High Wycombe; In 2017, four Arriva Shires & Essex depots (Milton Keynes, Luton, Aylesbury and High Wycombe), and their routes, were transferred into the management of Arriva Midlands. The vehicles were renumbered in late 2018 and early 2019 to avoid multiple Arriva Midlands vehicles sharing the same fleet numbers.
To make them more marketable, the larger subsidiaries of the National Bus Company were split up. United Counties was split up operationally from 1 January 1986 and the new companies were privatised in 1987: [10] Luton & District Transport Company [11] (Aylesbury, Hitchin and Luton garages), sold August 1987 in a management buyout [12]
Green Line is a long standing commuter coach brand in the Home counties of England. The trademark is owned by Arriva, [1] with services operated by Arriva Herts & Essex.. Green Line had its origin in the network of coach services established by the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) in the 1920s and 1930s, being absorbed into the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.
The society reports on the central area buses or 'red buses' and country area buses in the previous Green Line area, roughly bounded by Gravesend, Crawley, Guildford, Windsor, Aylesbury, Luton, Harlow and Tilbury.
Luton is also home to Luton Airport, one of the major feeder airports for London and the southeast. The town is also served by buses run by Arriva Herts & Essex and other operators and has a guided busway. As a Unitary Authority, Luton Borough Council is responsible for local highways and public transport in the borough.
Between 1998 and 2003 passenger numbers rose by 63% following the introduction of new buses and ticketing schemes. [29] It became part of his Status Bus & Coach mini-group – an attempt to co-ordinate the resources of small independents to save money – at its formation in 1999, but the group proved largely unsuccessful and had broken up by 2004.
Coach services were deregulated under the Transport Act 1980, and buses by the Transport Act 1985. In March 1988 National Express was privatised in a management buyout. [6] In July 1989, the company bought ATL Holdings [7] (with operations in Sheffield) and a 50% share in Yelloway Trathen, which was renamed Trathens Travel Services. [8] [9]