One of the things I’m most pleased about having incorporated into this blog is the ‘Stagecoach in the News’ section at the top of the home page. I have a script which does a search for every mention of Stagecoach in the past few days of which the most recent seven are then incorporated into the page. I hope it keeps visitors coming back because they have a one-stop source of Stagecoach news. When I started the blog it was ‘Megabus in the News’ and then became ‘Stagecoach in the news’ when the depot lost the Megabus work and I had to drive a regular bus :-(

However, quite a lot of visitors arrive on the blog having used many different search terms, few of which include the word ‘stagecoach’. Which has led to me wonder whether I should be broader in what news is shown. Instead of just Stagecoach news it could be bus news from First, Arriva, Go-Ahead, Veolia, National Express etc. as well as Stagecoach.

Click here to see what ‘Stagecoach in the News’ and ‘Bus Companies in the News’ would be showing now. Because there are many more stories when all bus companies are included each story will scroll to the bottom fairly quickly and then disappear. Also when something big is happening, like the possible Nat Ex takeover at present, the stories come even faster and appear to be dominated by that company. No Stagecoach story will ever be missed but it will not be viewable for as long as before.

You can vote for which newsfeed you’d prefer in the left hand column. Voting closes in 7 days.

UPDATE:

After 7 days the votes were 61% for all bus operators and 39% for Stagecoach only. The newsfeed has been changed accordingly. Comments (good or bad) on the feed are still welcome.