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Thursday, 21 July 2016

BBC News

• Drivers battle Uber over employment rightsCab hire service Uber has been taken to a London employment tribunal by two of its drivers who claim it is acting unlawfully by not offering holiday and sick pay.

Financial Times

• Elon Musk outlines lofty goals for TeslaVehicle group to make full range of electric cars, buses and trucks
• Uber challenged on UK drivers’ statusLandmark legal case on whether car-booking app’s drivers are self-employed or workers with rights

The Guardian

• Uber driver earned less than minimum wage, tribunal toldJames Farrar claims that one month in 2015 he earned little more than £5 an hour and feared repercussions if he cancelled a jobAn Uber driver who says he earned less than the minimum wage has told a tribunal about the “tremendous pressure” he was put under to work long hours and accept jobs, and the “repercussions” he faced from the company if he cancelled a pick-up.James Farrar, a driver with the firm since December 2014, said some months he had earned little more than £5 an hour and that “Uber control me very, very carefully”. Continue reading...

The York Press

• York's ring road must be upgraded, MP says A YORK MP has asked the new Government for assurances that money will be available to improve York’s transport infrastructure.

Yorkshire Post

• Car tax dodging has doubled since paper discs were abolishedRevenue from vehicle excise duty fell by £93 million in the year after the abolition of the paper tax disc, official figures show.

Other Regional Press

• The transport secretary has been urged to make an early decision on a new Lower Thames CrossingThe new transport secretary has been urged to make an early decision on a new Lower Thames Crossing.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Sadiq Khan boosts pollution fund to tackle London toxic air hotspotsThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is to help some of London’s most polluted boroughs implement new hard-hitting measures to tackle toxic air quality hot spots and filthy emission fumes with an £11m fund. Five ‘Low Emission Neighbourhoods’ will be set up across eight boroughs, with pollution-busting measures including strict new penalties for the most polluting vehicles, car-free days, green taxi ranks for zero emission-capable cabs and parking reserved for the cleanest vehicles. By injecting more cash and securing  'like-for-like' funding from boroughs, the Mayor ...

Rail Technology Magazine

• East Midlands Trains appoints two new senior directorsEast Midlands Trains has appointed a new commercial director and customer experience director to replace its departing commercial director. Lawrence Bowman (35), the current head of business planning, will take up the post of commercial director next month, replacing Neil Micklethwaite, who will...

Other News Sources

• Final section of Blackburn’s orbital route officially named ‘Wainwright Way’ THE key final section of the Blackburn’s orbital route, the Freckleton Street link road, will be officially named ‘Wainwright Way’.