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Driving tests brought closer to home with partnership deal
Driving tests could soon be available from branches of Halfords under plans announced today by Road Safety Minister Mike Penning.
Government scraps Nats sale plans
The Government has scrapped plans to sell its 49% stake in air traffic control company Nats. Transport Secretary Justine Greening said it was best for taxpayers, travellers and Nats if the Government retained its shareholding.
New rail performance data released
Network Rail and train companies have today released more detailed information than ever before about train punctuality, showing passengers the number of services that arrive within a minute of their...
European Parliament agrees to invest in Peterborough trainline
A key rail bottleneck between Peterborough and the east will be tackled by a £3.8 million investment from the European Parliament.
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
BBC News
- Final tender from CT Plus to run Jersey's buses approved Jersey's transport minister has approved the final tender from CT Plus for the island's public and school bus contract.
- Halfords set to host driving tests Learner drivers look set to be heading to Halfords or a fire station to take their test, under plans being finalised by ministers.
- Door-to-door bus service extendedPeople living in rural parts of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire will have access to a new on-demand bus service from Monday.
- Impact of £27m road to be studiedHighland Council is to start work on preparing the way for the construction of a new road to ease congestion in Inverness.
- Edinburgh Airport numbers dropPassenger traffic fell by nearly 4% at Edinburgh Airport last month, dragged down by a drop in domestic passenger numbers.
- Line repaired after derailmentNetwork Rail completes work on the West Highland line, which has been closed after a landslip and derailment.
- Heathrow queues near 'acceptable'Immigration minister Damian Green hits back at claims by home affairs committee chairman Keith Vaz passengers face
- Crash cyclist is ninth fatalityA cyclist is killed in a collision with a car in south London - the ninth cycling fatality in the city this year.
- New study shows 'real' rail timesFewer than 70% of trains run on time, "real" punctuality figures published by Network Rail (NR) suggest. The statistics are based on services that arrive either early or within 59 seconds of the scheduled time.
- Bus union recommends Games dealBus drivers in London demanding a bonus for working the Olympics are recommended by their union to accept a pay offer.
- AUDIO: Heathrow queue slow hand-clappedA queue waiting to pass through immigration at Heathrow airport started to slow hand-clap the two-hour delay.
- VIDEO: 'I fly the A380 at Farnborough'Peter Chandler, Experimental Test Pilot at Airbus, talks the BBC through his A380 display at Farnborough as he practices the show in a simulator.
Department for Transport
- Driving tests brought closer to home with partnership dealDriving tests could soon be available from branches of Halfords under plans announced today by Road Safety Minister Mike Penning.
- Giving train passengers more information on punctualityPassengers will be able to find out if train services run on time to within one minute under plans to make more detailed punctuality information available.
Financial Times
- Minister seeks to ease Olympics fearsDamian Green seeks to reassure committee of MPs that everything is being done to ensure passengers arriving at Heathrow will have waiting times cut
- Rail chairman wades into pay stormRick Haythornthwaite attacks the sniping at Network Rail™s executive bonus scheme, saying the company will lose talent to the private sector
- American Airlines considers merger optionsPeople familiar with AMR™s plans say the company intends to approach bidders and ask them to sign nondisclosure agreements in the coming weeks
The Guardian
- Unite urges London bus workers to accept pay deal for Olympics run Offer forged by union with bus companies and Acas could head off threat of bus strike at end of July
- Olympic test-run on London transport leaves commuters grumbling Exercise to test the capital's Olympic rail capacity coincides with the temporary closure of King's Cross St Pancras
The Telegraph
- Number of active speed cameras fallsNearly 10 per cent of speed cameras in England have disappeared since the Coalition came to power, new figures have shown.
- Three times as many late trains as recorded by official figuresThe number of trains that ran late last year is three times higher than previously recorded by official figures.
- Low-cost airline to charge for hand luggageWizz Air, the budget airline, is to start charging customers to carry hand luggage.
Press Association
- Government scraps Nats sale plans The Government has scrapped plans to sell its 49% stake in air traffic control company Nats. Transport Secretary Justine Greening said it was best for taxpayers, travellers and Nats if the Government retained its shareholding.
Reuters News
- Britain to keep stake in NATS air traffic controlThe British government has decided not to sell its stake in national air traffic control provider NATS because of its strategic importance to the UK, Transport Secretary Justine Greening said on Tuesday.
Mail Online
- Network Rail: 'Real' punctuality figures show just seven out of ten trains in Britain run on timeNetwork Rail admits that less than seventy per cent of all services arrive within a minute of when they are due, falling to just 60 per cent for long distance trains.
- Heathrow queues: Minister pledges that ALL immigration desks will be manned during Olympics as private firm is hired to track down 150,000 missing immigrantsThe Border Force will pilot a scheme where low-risk tourists from trusted countries will be directed to fast-track lanes in a bid to cut queues, the Immigration Minister said.
ATOC
- New rail performance data releasedNetwork Rail and train companies have today released more detailed information than ever before about train punctuality, showing passengers the number of services that arrive within a minute of their...
Network Rail
Belfast Telegraph
- New £80m order a further boost for Bombardier Belfast planemaker Bombardier Aerospace is celebrating another soaraway success after scooping orders worth almost £80m for its new CSeries range of planes. Related StoriesBallyrashane Co-op invests £3m in the power of manureAerospace firm agrees major supply chain dealOur high flying companies celebrate successTrail of e-mails highlights Tucker's concern over Barclays financingWhitehall did not ask us to lower Libor rate: BoE deputy
Derby Telegraph
- Remember the trolleybuses? This man wants to bring them back to...Derby’s population is likely to increase by a third in the next 30 years. But retired Derby town planner Bryan Moore has come up with a radical solution to make sure the city does not end up grid-locked – bringing back trolley buses. Robin Johnson reports.
Edinburgh Evening News
- Ministers told tram chiefs: Don™t tell us what you™re doing with our £500 million.MINISTERS were so anxious to distance themselves from the trams that they told council chiefs: don’t tell us what you’re doing with our £500 million.
- Residents ˜in limbo™ as rail link plans put on holdA COMMUNITY has been left in limbo after a key rail project was put on hold.
Journal Live
- Great North Run faces disruption due to rail worksONE of the biggest events in the North East calendar faces huge disruption after rail lines were scheduled to be closed on the weekend of the Great North Run.
- Hadrian's Cycleway could be re-routed due to flood sagaA NATIONAL cycle path that runs through the North East could be permanently re-routed in a long-running saga over flash-flooding.
Liverpool Post
- Consultancy Mott MacDonald wins £1m Merseytravel deal CONSULTANCY Mott MacDonald has won a £1m contract with Merseytravel to monitor and update its Local Transport Plan (LTP). The three-year deal was awarded on behalf of the Merseyside Transport Partnership, which comprises Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral.
London Evening Standard
- London bus staff made confidential offer to avert further strikesBus staff in London have been made an offer for working during the Olympics in a bid to avert the threat of further strikes.
- Crack in M4 flyover may have been caused by roadworks, says ministerThe M4 flyover in west London may have cracked as a result of repair work, a transport minister admitted today.
- Baffled at London Bridge... bewildered commuters at a loss in rehearsal for London Olympics crowd controlCommuters didn't know which way to turn today as they were given a “practice run” of how public transport will operate at London Bridge during the Olympics.
- All Heathrow Airport passport desks to be manned during Olympics at peak timesEvery passport desk at Heathrow will be manned during peak periods from Sunday in a bid to prevent Britain becoming an "international embarrassment" during the Olympics, MPs were told today.
- Fast-track airport checks plannedFast-track lanes for Americans and visitors from some of the biggest countries in the Commonwealth will be set up at Heathrow Airport after the Olympics, Damian Green has said.
Northern Echo
- Rail basses plan to carry out track work on East Coast Main Line on Great North Run weekend Rail bosses have been urged to rethink track work which will inconvenience thousands of visitors to the Great North Run.
Nottingham Evening Post
Sheffield Star
- Wizzing past the million mark at Robin Hood Airport, DoncasterEASTERN European airline Wizz Air has passed the million passengers mark with its services from Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster.
The York Press
- Big council underspend to be used for massive programme of road improvements MILLIONS of pounds of spare council cash is set to be used to boost improvements to roads in East Yorkshire.
Yorkshire Evening Post
- Safety fears over proposals to lift Leeds bus lane taxi banPlans to allow taxis to use bus lanes in Leeds have sparked safety concerns among cyclists and councillors.
Peterborough Telegraph
- European Parliament agrees to invest in Peterborough trainlineA key rail bottleneck between Peterborough and the east will be tackled by a £3.8 million investment from the European Parliament.
Global Rail News
- Pedestrian simulation in TorontoWritten by Erin Morrow (Senior Consultant at Arup) & Peter Debney (Senior Consultant at Oasys Software Ltd) Union Station is Toronto™s busiest transportation hub. Situated in the downtown district, it is the main terminus for the GO regional rail network, a connection into the city™s streetcar and subway networks, plus a gateway into the PATH [...]
- Reading bridge lifted into placeNetwork Rail has produced a time-lapse video showing Reading station’s new bridge being moved into place. The initial 728 tonne structure, which is three times bigger than the current passenger bridge, was put in place at 3.30am on Sunday, following a two-night operation. Network Rail said the multi-million pound rebuilding project is currently running a [...]
- First Capital Connect completes peaks challengeFour employees from First Capital Connect (FCC) have raised more than £11,000 for Railway Children after braving severe downpours to complete the Three Peaks Challenge by Rail. Managing director, Neal Lawson, Bedford driver, Martin Barter, and revenue protections team members, Glen Merryman and Rebecca Vandyke, climbed the three highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales [...]
- Freight trains were not speeding before fatal crashTwo freight trains which collided in Oklahoma killing three crew members were not speeding, according to a preliminary accident report. On June 24, two Union Pacific freight trains travelling eastbound and westbound near Goodwell collided, sparking a diesel-fed fire. Three of the four crew members onboard received fatal injuries. The other crew member survived after [...]
- Network Rail seeks transparency with new punctuality figuresNetwork Rail has released punctuality figures revealing exactly how many of Britain’s trains have arrived at their stations on time in the last 10 years. Just under 70 per cent of trains pulled up within a minute of their scheduled arrival time in 2011/12 – an improvement on the 46.9 per cent that turned up [...]
- Heritage operator fined after chairman™s legs are crushed in track accidentA Heritage railway operator has been fined £5,000 after the company’s chairman had his legs crushed by a length of track as it was being moved by crane. Telford Steam Railway will also have to pay costs of £3,000, following a prosecution brought by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) for criminal breaches of health [...]
Railnews
- Fewer trains 'on time' under new, tighter test New, tighter punctuality statistics have been published by Network Rail, which only describe trains as 'on time' if they are no more than 59 seconds late at their final destination. The new figures reveal that 69.8 per cent of all passenger trains arrived early, on time or less than a minute late in 2011-12. The comparable figure under the previous, looser measurement, which was no more than five minutes late for commuter trains and ten for long distance, was 91.6 per cent. Train operators have been urged to 'go the extra mile' by a transport minister, and improve performance still further.
Aviation Industry
- British Airways looks to raise £250 millionAirline to attract investors through the issue of new corporate bonds
- Ryanair to open new base at Maastricht No-frills giant will offer flights from Stansted and Dublin for this winter
Other News Sources
- Green attacks Vaz for 'misleading' Heathrow Olympics commentsDamian Green has hit out at Keith Vaz for making
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