{"id":1754,"date":"2014-10-11T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T18:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adverta.co.uk\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2018-11-26T17:07:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:07:31","slug":"bus-facts-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adverta.co.uk\/bus-facts-october-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus Facts – October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
Buses got their names after a hat shop in France! The word \u201cbus\u201d itself comes from the Latin word \u201cOmnibus\u201d but this was actually a reference to \u201cOmnes Omnibus,\u201d which was the name of the hatter shop located next to the first bus station in Nantes, France back in 1823, which was in turn a Latin pun on the name of the owner, \u201cOmn\u00e8s\u201d.<\/p>\n
The world’s largest bus is in Beijing and can carry 300 passengers.<\/p>\n
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Brighton and Nottingham have the highest levels of bus journeys per person at around 160 journeys per head of population in the latest year; around 10 times the level of more rural areas such as Somerset and Herefordshire, and more than three times the average outside London.<\/p>\n
South Lancs Travel were founded in April 1998.<\/p>\n
NCT operates 23,175 hours\u2019 worth of services per week. This is about 1.2 million per year.<\/p>\n
NCT routes cover 405,387 kilometres per week. That\u2019s over 21 million every year.<\/p>\n
75% of Nottingham\u2019s principal bus operator’s current fleet, Nottingham City Transport, has ‘next stop’ audio and visual announcements. NCT aims for this figure to be at 100% by 2016\/17.<\/p>\n
A high passenger capacity bus has the ability to substitute 36 cars on the road.<\/p>\n
Sources: www.carpenterbus.com\/2014\/01\/5-fun-factsbuses<\/a>, www.busandcoach.travel<\/a>, www.omgfacts.com, www.webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk, www.nctx.co.uk<\/a>, en.wikipedia.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Buses got their names after a hat shop in France! The word \u201cbus\u201d itself comes from the Latin word \u201cOmnibus\u201d but this was actually a reference to \u201cOmnes Omnibus,\u201d which was the name of the hatter shop located next to the first bus station in Nantes, France back in 1823, which was in turn a Latin […]<\/p>\n