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Campaigners fighting HS2 have urged the Government to ditch the plans and reopen a closed route between Sheffield and Manchester instead.
Monday, 11 August 2014
Nottingham Evening Post
- Bus companies join forces for new offerTWO bus companies have teamed up to offer passengers a free ride.
- Reader's letter: Beeston bus station plans are sheer fiascoREGARDING your story about buses terminating in Beeston being unable to use the new tram-bus interchange, I must express my disgust that Beeston will not be having such an interchange point in the centre of the town (due to the fact that there's no room for the bus station to remain in its present position).
Other Regional Press
- Relocation for Diss bus station in considerationSouth Norfolk councillors are considering relocating the main bus station in Diss in the hope that it could solve the safety concerns and practicality issues brought about by the placement of the current site.
- New bus shelter for Probus branded "the most dangerous" in the UKA RETIRED schoolteacher has branded a bus shelter being built in a village square as the "most dangerous in the UK".
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- First consults on Yorkshire BorismastersAs the public inquiry into a planned trolleybus route in Leeds drags on, First West Yorkshire has launched consultation on its plans to introduce New Routemasters – a New Bus for West Yorkshire - to services in the region.
- London takes electric MetroCitysFour battery-electric Optare MetroCitys are now in operation with London United on Transport for London route H98 between Hayes and Hounslow.
- Centro consults on Sprint BRTConsultation on a £15million bus rapid transit service in Birmingham has been started by Centro, the West Midlands PTE.
- Electric Versas for ManchesterThree battery-electric Optare Versas have been delivered to Transport for Greater Manchester for the free Metroshuttle services in central Manchester.
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