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The cabinet member for the newly created post, Caro Wild, said tackling air pollution will be a top priority
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- Rail strike: Isle of Wight services runs as normal despite walkoutThe Isle of Wight is one of the only places in the country where train services are running as normal despite rail workers going back on strike.
- More rail strikes extremely likely, says union bossTravellers are facing another day of disruption on the second day of strikes, as half the network closes.
- TfL: Sadiq Khan warns Tube and bus cuts are imminentTransport for London has had its emergency funding deal extended until 13 July, the government has said.
- Network Rail strike: Scotland likely to see more 24-hour walkoutsThe RMT's Mick Lynch says if negotiations continue to fail, Saturday's 24-hour strike may not be the last.
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- Rail chief threatens to go over union’s head on UK strikesNetwork Rail boss proposes polling staff directly on modernisation as Thursday action set to cripple services
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- Rail strikes show Tories have moved on since promises to defend workers’ rightsAnalysis: New laws aim to make it easier for firms to use agency workers to break strikes, tilting the balance of power towards employersRail strikes – latest newsWhen P&O Ferries bypassed unions and replaced 800 seafarers with agency workers in March, the prime minister, Boris Johnson, said his government would “defend the rights of British workers”, and the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, brought in new rules that would make sure workers “are not undercut by employers”, he said. Three months later, the tune is very different.New laws announced by the government on Thursday aim to ...
- Rail strikes: commuters stay home on day two of action as talks resumeMaintenance and train company staff in parallel negotiations as ministers plan to use agency workers to break strikeThe second 24-hour national rail strike has emptied railway stations across Great Britain as commuters opted to work from home while ministers pushed ahead with controversial plans to allow agency staff to break strikes.Talks resumed between the RMT union and rail industry bosses as 40,000 union members at Network Rail and across 13 train operating companies downed tools. No firm progress was reported, with a third strike due on Saturday, as the two separate sets of negotiations ...
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- Edinburgh tram strike threat risks more chaosThe second day of a UK-wide rail strike resulted in a skeleton service across Scotland and industrial action is now looming on Edinburghs tram network.
- Rail bosses hope redundancy compromise will end RMT strikesRail companies and unions edged closer towards a deal yesterday, senior rail sources said.
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- Plans revealed to transform Cardiff Bay train station and build new Butetown stationProposals would also see a new station constructed in Butetown
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- Network Rail granted powers to expand Oxford stationThe Department for Transport (DfT) has granted Network Rail a Transport Works Act Order (TWAO), enabling the rail operator to formally acquire powers to expand Oxford station.
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- Rail usage doubles after Covid collapseOfficial figures released by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) show that a total of 990 million journeys were made in Britain over the last year.
- DfT begins council traffic fines roll-outThe first tranche of local authorities in England are set to get new powers to fine motorists for moving traffic violations next month after ministers approved their requests and laid an order before Parliament.
- Council urges calm as LTN wars break outOxfordshire County Council has urged residents and road users to engage constructively with its consultation on trial low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) after vandalism costing 12,000 in a month.
- South Western Railway (SWR) has appointed Stuart Meek to its leadership team as chief operating officer, following the retirement of Mike Houghton earlier this year.Mr Meek, who starts in the post in August, is moving from the Go-Ahead Group where he has been operations director for the past three years, leading operational and business development projects for rail and bus in the UK and internationally.
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