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Friday, 01 July 2022

BBC News

• ScotRail reveal six-figure salaries of senior executivesNewly-nationalised ScotRail has published the salaries of its senior management for the first time. The operator is required to disclose leadership pay to bring it into line with other non-departmental public bodies.
• Goole: Siemens' train factory to expand with components factoryPlans for a £200m rail factory creating 700 jobs in East Yorkshire have been given an additional multimillion-pound boost. The Siemens Goole Railway Village, first announced in 2018, is now nearing completion.

Financial Times

• London City airport looks to expand to meet post-Covid recovery in travelPlans to ease existing controls on weekend and early flights likely to hit resistance

Times Online

• Rail quango ‘will only strengthen unions’ [subscription] Planned rail reforms will “strengthen and entrench union power” and “paralyse entire regions”, raising the risk of more strikes, the transport secretary has been warned.

Bolton News

• Bolton: Ex-mayor welcomes fatal dangerous driving law changeBolton’s former Mayor has welcomed a law that could see fatal dangerous drivers, like those who killed former Mayoress Gay Wharton, jailed for life.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Arriva bus strike suspended as workers consider new offerTHE long-running bus strike affecting Arriva in Yorkshire has been suspended today to allow members of union Unite to be balloted on a new pay offer.
• Bradford delegation meet with Chancellor Rishi SunakBRADFORD business leaders say Chancellor Rishi Sunak has held out fresh hope of a new, through rail station in the city.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• New Transport for Wales trains unveiled - when and where they will be runningThe Welsh Government run rail group has been under fire for over-crowding and the poor standard of some trains

Manchester Evening News

• 'Is it going to be like how it was in 2019? No': Manchester Airport's new boss speaks out for first time over huge queues and delaysChris Woodroofe was recently appointed as Manchester Airport's new managing director

Northern Echo

• Tyne and Wear Metro: New pictures give update on new trainsNew pictures have shown the new Tyne and Wear Metro trains taking shape on the production line, ahead of them arriving in the North East.

Wales Online

• Rail lines between Cardiff and Pontypridd to close for nearly a weekThe disruption comes after a week of widespread rail strikes

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• New director for JLRA new executive director of industrial operations has been appointed for Jaguar Land Rover.

Hull Daily Mail

• Rail industry failing Hull with cancellations leaving the city behind says MPRegional transport leaders say cuts to train services are undermining ambitions to attract more people to use the railways.
• Siemens' new 700-job Goole factory gets multi-million pound Tube boostA new Siemens train factory which is due to create 700 jobs in Goole, along with 1,700 more in the supply change, has been given a further multi-million pound boost.

Other Regional Press

• First look at new Transport for Wales trains made in NewportBrand new trains that will transform and improve transport throughout Wales and the borders have been on show at Chester railway station.
• Council campaign to make Ruabon train station accessible to allWREXHAM Council says it is continuing to campaign to help make a train station accessible to all.

Coach and Bus Week

• Ipswich Buses goes cloud-native with OptibusFollowing the launch of Optibus’ Operations module, the transport management software provider has announced that municipal bus operator Ipswich Buses will use Optibus’ cloud-native software for all planning, scheduling, and rostering needs. The operator will also be one of the first in the UK to implement Optibus’ new real-time Operations module.
• Ben Werth appointed Chief Commercial Officer at Wrightbus as new recruitment office opensBen Werth has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer at Wrightbus. He will take up the role alongside his current position as Managing Director of Wrightbus’ sister company Fuze Finance.
• Ben Werth appointed Chief Commercial Officer at Wrightbus as new recruitment office opensBen Werth has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer at Wrightbus. He will take up the role alongside his current position as Managing Director of Wrightbus’ sister company Fuze Finance.

New Civil Engineer

• Welsh council looks to bypass road building pause with £40M Levelling Up Fund bidGwynedd Council will apply to the government’s Levelling Up Fund for £40M to pay for a new bypass around the Snowdonia village of Llanbedr, side-stepping Wales’ pause on new road building.
• Old Oak Common station team eyes tunnel prep work following completion of ‘nightmare’ boxConstruction work on High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Old Oak Common station in West London is now shifting focus towards excavation and preparing the site for tunnelling following completion of the station’s box structure.

Rail Magazine

• Windermere passing loop heads South Cumbria rail plansA plan for South Cumbria, setting out realistic investment targets for the region’s lines with its local operator at its core, is aiming for ‘quick wins’.

Railnews

• Scottish ministers accuse London of picking a fight with rail unions Transport secretary Grant Shapps and his cabinet colleagues are being accused of ‘picking a fight’ with the rail unions, as more walkouts are threatened. Scottish transport minister Jenny Gilruth said a meeting with Grant Shapps and rail minister Wendy Morton was cancelled last week at short notice. It was rescheduled for yesterday but cancelled again. She has accused London politicians of being ‘asleep at the wheel’.

Route One

• Ipswich Buses adopts Optibus – including new moduleIpswich Buses has selected Optibus cloud native software for its planning, scheduling and rostering needs. The agreement includes use of Optibus’s recently launched Operations module, placing the municipal operator among the first adopters of it in the UK.

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• Recovery funding for bus services in Wales extended into 2023Bus services in Wales will receive further recovery funding to the end of the current financial year in April 2023, the Welsh Government has announced. The overall package is worth £48m and it has been welcomed by representatives of the sector.
• Go-Ahead is named top transport apprenticeship employer for 2022The Go Ahead Group has been named 13th best apprenticeship provider and the top provider of transport apprenticeships in a new ranking by the Department for Education.
• Unicard launches multimodal ticketing solution with AmdocsSmart transport solutions provider Unicard has announced the launch of a multimodal tap-in, tap-out account-based ticketing (ABT) system through a collaboration with software provider Amdocs.
• Community transport use back to pre-pandemic levels in WalesRidership on community transport services in Wales has returned to pre-pandemic levels while on buses in the country the rate of return is still well behind that baseline, a Senedd Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee meeting in late May was told.

Aviation Industry

• AEF Response to Consultation on Environmental TargetsAEF has responded to a Defra consultation on environmental targets. Under the Environment Act 2021, which was introduced post-Brexit, the Government is required to set at least one long-term target … The post AEF Response to Consultation on Environmental Targets appeared first on Aviation Environment Federation.

Other News Sources

• MAJOR WEST YORKSHIRE RAIL PROJECT GETS THE GO-AHEADA multibillion-pound rail upgrade set to support faster, greener and more reliable journeys in West Yorkshire has been given the green light.
• London MP calls for TfL to be put in 'special measures' over Tube strikes with Sadiq Khan stripped of powersTfL has faced a wave of strikes over threats to pensions and jobs
• ULEZ extension map shows plan to extend to Surrey border affecting A3 and A24The Ultra Low Emission Zone expansion could impact drivers travelling through Kingston, Richmond and Croydon and on major roads such as the A3
• Plans welcomed to make Hove station area saferA COUNCILLOR has welcomed plans to make a “horrendousâ€� mini-roundabout safer for cyclists and people walking.