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First Bus has teamed up with Scotland’s Festival of Light for the second year running to offer free bus travel to Spectra visitors.
With an apt festival theme of Journeys this year, up to two thousand two-trip tickets have been made available, allowing visitors to claim free travel…
Spectra, Scotland’s Festival of Light, returns to Aberdeen next week (6-9 February 2025) and to safely accommodate the audience and art installations, a number of temporary parking restrictions and road closures will be in place in the city centre.
Now in its 11th year Spectra will once…
A 20mph speed limit for streets in the north part of the Aberdeen, which will improve road safety, was agreed at a Council committee today (21 January 2025).
The report to the Net Zero, Environment, and Transport committee highlights the Scottish Government published a ‘Scotland’s Road…
More than 6,000 people used the services of free night buses from Aberdeen City Council which went to key destinations across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire at weekends in November and December and Hogmanay.
The weekend services, which operated from Saturday 16 November 2024 to Sunday 5…
Free night buses to key destinations across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire are to operate on Hogmanay to help revellers get home from the city centre after the bells.
Aberdeen City Council is paying First Bus to operate the 10 routes from 12midnight on 31 December 2024 to about 3am on 1…
Night buses to key destinations across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire are to be reintroduced this weekend by Aberdeen City Council – and they’ll be free of charge.
After a tendering process, the Council has contracted the 10 routes out to First Bus which will operate them from the city centre…
Following a procurement exercise for a supported bus service between Kingswells and the city centre, Aberdeen City Council has awarded a contract to McGill’s Buses to run the service.
The service will operate up to every 30 minutes at peak times and up to every 60 minutes at off-peak…
Three fantastic offers are available this month to get either free or cheaper stays in car parks in Aberdeen city centre – at the same time as free brick-filled trails including one with roarsome dinosaurs.
The offers – two of which are for council car parks and one for a private car park…
Aberdeen’s roads and pavements are to be prioritised for gritting with an anticipated spend of £1.57million for the 2024/2025 winter.
A report agreed yesterday (3 September 2024) by councillors at Net Zero, Environment and Transport Committee about the Roads Winter Service Plan said if…
Online engagement has started today to let people see the forthcoming improvements for the B999/C19C Shielhill Road junction.
They include improvements to the B999/Shielhill Road junction, removing the tight bend on the B999, and widening verges on Shielhill Road. In addition, a reduction…
Aberdeen City Council has implemented new digital ways to pay for parking across the city.
From today (22 July 2024) a new virtual (digital) parking permit system has been introduced, allowing the Council to begin the phasing out paper permits.
This means that residents and…
Aberdeen City Council has today, in the context of the ongoing construction works on Union Street and around the New Market development, made a number of changes to traffic priorities in the city centre. …