Many congratulations to all the winners at yesterday's Bus Oscars, the UK Bus Awards 2010. I know that these predictions below might've served better had they gone up beforehand but I nevertheless give you who I thought would win in each of 10 of the 24 categories at the Awards (plus my view of the UK Bus Operator of the Year, based on the three winners of the operator subsections).
Meanwhile, how would you have voted? The reader survey associated with this question has closed and results will follow shortly.
Municipal operators, Arriva and Stagecoach each appeared in 15 per cent of the shortlisted nominations. First, Go Ahead and independents each had 10 per cent.
| Award | My Choice | How I Did | Winner |
| Winning new customers (5 shortlisted) | Trent Barton - The Nines | Trent Barton winner | Trent Barton |
| Bus in the Countryside (5) | Stagecoach South West for Go2 | Stagecoach was runner up | Denbighshire Council, Wales |
| Express operation of the year (5) | Oxford Tube | Oxford Tube runners up | Stagecoach East X5 Oxford-Cambridge |
| Environmental (6) | BAe Systems Low Carbon Vehicle Programme | BAe Systems winner | BAe Systems |
| Innovation (5) | Arriva Tickets2urMobile | Arriva runners up | Stagecoach Merseyside credit/debit payments |
| Bus Marketing Campaign (7) | NCT Easyrider "Save a few Squid" | NCT runners up | The Arriva 110 Takes Off |
| Independent Operator of the Year (5) | Norfolk Green | Norfolk Green winner | Norfolk Green |
| Shire Operator of the Year (6) | Transdev Yellow Buses | Transdev Yellow Buses winner | Transdev Yellow Buses |
| City Operator of the Year (5) | Brighton & Hove | Brighton & Hove winner | Brighton & Hove |
| UK Bus Operator of the Year (3) | Brighton & Hove | Joint runner up withTYB | Norfolk Green |
3 comments:
The big three dont come out too well do they?.Much food for thought here.My perception here is that operators outside the big three have too be more on their toes and are therefore pro-active,whereas the big three merely respond when faced with competition or falling margins,reactive rather than pro.regards
It depends of course on whether their operating companies actually enter. There's nothing wrong with not entering - it doesn't mean you don't have a good product, just that you don't want to spend time and effort enetering the awards.
I went to the 'short operator survey' but only feel I could vote in 1 category as I have knowledge of a particular operator.
The form insists I register a vote in all 3 categories which I can't do so no response has been counted from me.
It's "all or nothing" evidently!
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