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John Holland-Kaye: 'Expanding Heathrow has always been the only answer'
Airport’s chief executive is not frustrated by the third runway impasse, he insists, but ‘working on being a good neighbour’If not quite digging a third runway, Heathrow was at least expecting by now to know whether the government would allow it. But if the airport’s chief executive, John Holland-Kaye, feels like banging his head on Westminster’s walls after years of its sputtering process, he’s not showing it.“Like Alan B’Stard,” he remarks, as he adopts the pose of Rik Mayall’s fictional MP beside parliament.
Subsidy cut is ‘Dr Beeching’ for our buses
Lancashire County Council’s decision to cut all bus subsidies are on bus services are on a par with the controversial Beeching Report into the rail network, according to Campaign for Better Transport (CBT).
Friday, 05 February 2016
The Guardian
- Car fumes are killing us. So why isn’t anyone telling us not to drive?The health risks from vehicle air pollution are well known: heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer. It’s time to follow the mayor of Paris – and ban motorists when necessary
Birmingham Post
- Transport Secretary 'happy' to examine M6 Toll use after motorway nightmare Patrick McLoughlin acknowledges problems caused by major smash on motorway today and will look at role of M6 Toll at times of emergencies
London Evening Standard
- Mayor unveils plan for two huge tunnels under London to help ease traffic jamsTwo major tunnels could run across London under new plans today unveiled by Boris Johnson.
- UK 'set for electric cars revolution' with Scalextric-style road networkBritain is close to an electric cars revolution which could see driverless vehicles charge up as they use a Scalextric-style road network across the country, a Cabinet minister revealed today.
Crewe Chronicle
- New British-built Avatar car revealedKit car manufacturer targets track-days with affordable but exclusive new production model
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- Remit agreed for inquiry in to Forth Road Bridge defectsA Committee inquiry to consider issues around the structural defects that have led to the current closure of the Forth Road Bridge will get underway early next year.
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