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Thursday, 09 December 2021

BBC News

• Storm Barra leaves two ferries stuck outside Holyhead PortIt comes as 86mph winds batter Wales, sparking flood warnings, road closures and power cuts.
• Storm Barra causes North West road closures and rail delaysA stretch of the M57 in Merseyside reopens but flooding and fallen trees close roads and rail lines.
• Sadiq Khan 'melodramatic' over Tube funding - ministerGovernment sources have told BBC London that ministers have always been committed to helping TfL.

Department for Transport

• Werrington Tunnel opens unlocking faster journeys on the East Coast Main LineNew rail freight tunnel brings significant improvements to passenger journeys as part of the East Coast upgrade.

Financial Times

• Travel industry chiefs check out after sticking around during pandemicSlow rebound in airline, hotel and cruise industries has sparked executive turnover
• French shipping group CMA CGM agrees $3bn logistics dealCompany buys warehouses and cloud-based platform from US technology company Ingram Micro
• Travel industry chiefs check out after sticking around during pandemicSlow rebound in airline, hotel and cruise industries has sparked executive turnover

The Guardian

• Unions plan for national rail strike as job cuts loom‘Attacks on pay and pensions’ also expected after Department for Transport tells industry to find savings of 10%Rail unions are drawing up plans for a national strike as job cuts loom across the industry.The RMT is preparing to ballot its members for industrial action, with the union anticipating compulsory redundancies are highly probable at train operating companies and Network Rail. Such redundancies would mean “trains are coming to a haltâ€�, the TSSA union said after it failed to get assurances over jobs. Continue reading...

Daily Record

• Closure of Bridge of Allan railway station called 'nonsensical'Bridge of Allan residents and businesses have hit out at proposals which suggest closing the town’s railway station.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Batley MP launches petition to tackle reckless drivingAN MP has launched a petition to tackle reckless and dangerous driving in her constituency.

London Evening Standard

• How Sadiq Khan gets a deal for TfLIt will be a "financial apocalypse" and "impending disaster" which could "drag London back to the 1970s." As a new TfL deal deadline approaches, Sadiq Khan and his supporters have once again been scouring the dictionary of doom. We are told that unless the government gives him £1.7 billion, TfL will collapse. It'll axe a hundred bus routes, close a whole Tube line, end its entire capital investment programme.

Other Regional Press

• London Underground station could change forever as council plans £7.5m revampA London Underground station could be transformed for good as a council plans to invest £7.5 million in making it wheelchair friendly.

New Civil Engineer

• Regulator vows to increase scrutiny of National Highways investment plansThe Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has vowed to increase its scrutiny of future road funding for the strategic road network as plans are drawn up for the third road investment strategy (RIS3).
• MPs back Integrate Rail Plan cuts to HS2 and Northern Powerhouse RailMPs on both sides of the bench clashed over the government’s Integrated Rail Plan (IRP) which included cuts to High Speed 2 (HS2) and Northern Powerhouse Rail, during a parliamentary debate last night.
• Northern Powerhouse Rail in full is key to TfN’s decarbonisation strategyDelivery of the full Northern Powerhouse Rail route is “key” to Transport for the North’s (TfN) decarbonisation strategy.

Rail Business Daily

• MPs vote on motion expressing regret at government’s rail plansLabour pushed for a vote on an “opposition day” motion in the House of Commons yesterday evening, the wording of which expressed regret at the Integrated Rail Plan.
• Transport for the North reveals its regional Transport Decarbonisation StrategyTransport for the North (TfN) has released a strategy for cutting carbon emissions from surface transport to near zero by 2045.