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  • City of Derry Airport set for funding boostThe Northern Ireland Executive has confirmed that �7 million is to be provided to help maintain services at the City of Derry Airport. Concerns about the continued financial viability of running the airport have been raised ever since Ryanair - the airport's main carrier - axed flights to London and reduced the number of services it operates to Liverpool. In order to keep this key transport hub running, up to �2.5 million in route development support will be provided by the regional government, while a further �4.5 million in capital investment will be provided in partnership with Derry and St...

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  • GTR seeks views on 'complete redesign' of 2018 timetable with self-contained routesGovia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has opened a consultation on a new timetable following the opening of the expanded Thameslink network. GTR operates the UK’s largest rail franchise, but also has the worst PPM in the country after experiencing persistent delays, especially across...
  • Four-year track renewal programme completed in YorkshireA four-year programme to renew track in Yorkshire has been successfully completed using a specialist train. The train renewal system (TRS) completed its final shift, on the East Coast Main Line between York and Doncaster, on 17 September. The train, which is over a third of a mile long and cost...
  • 'Full Northern devolution needed' as more networks move towards local controlGreater rail devolution is needed to improve services, the Urban Transport Group has said in its latest policy paper, using Merseyrail, ScotRail and London Overground as examples where rail devolution “transformed” service quality. It argued that devolved transport authorities...
  • Over 14,000 jobs 'would be lost if HS2 is cancelled'The HS2 contracts already let or tendered have already created 14,440 jobs, new analysis shows. A new report from High Speed Rail Industry Leaders said the analysis, carried out by Albion Economics, provides “an estimate of the number of HS2 jobs that are already a subject of issued...

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  • Consultation launched over new Govia Thameslink services Govia Thameslink Railway has launched a major consultation about proposals for its timetables in two years from now, when the Thameslink Programme is completed. The draft outline of future service frequencies includes 16 trains an hour in the peaks on the London to Bedford section, with eight of those trains working through to Bedford. Some of the other changes include direct services from the Brighton direction between St Pancras and Great Northern stations, using a new connecting tunnel just north of St Pancras which will take trains on to the East Coast Main Line outside King's Cross.

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  • Driverless cars that smileMost of us catch a motorist’s eye before we cross the street, so what will we do when confronted with driverless cars? Until we pedestrians and cyclists learn from experience that autonomous vehicles pose less of a risk than their human-controlled predecessors, the answer could be the Smiling Car concept. The Smiling Car uses an illuminated digital smile to let… The post Driverless cars that smile appeared first on ETA.

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