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If passengers don’t pay for rising rail fares, who does? [Subscription]
The annual increase in rail fares set out yesterday prompted predictable anger from passengers. It’s not hard to see why. Overcrowding is getting worse, delays have risen sharply and upgrades to Britain’s creaking Victorian rail infrastructure are often painfully slow.
YEP Says: Charges are start of clean air in Leeds
Plans to charge high-emission buses, taxis and HGVs for coming into the city centre are the first step towards a Clean Air Zone but we have to be careful who will pick up the tab.
Could tubes, trains and trams go solar?
Rail, tube and tram networks could be connected directly to trackside solar panels for subsidy-free clean energy.
Wednesday, 06 December 2017
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- Buses could be charged £100 to enter Leeds under clean air bid Lorries, buses and coaches could be charged £100 a day to enter Leeds city centre under a plan to drive down emissions
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- ‘Commuter hell’ as bus route to station is axedCOMMUTERS feel like they have been “hung out to dry” by the cancellation of a vital bus route which connects them to a train station.
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