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Monday, 18 October 2021

BBC News

• Our love-hate affair with bypass roads to nowhereOne Welsh town marks a decade living with a bypass - but is out-of-town tarmac really what we need?

Financial Times

• BMW left to play electric car catch-up after a pioneering chargeThe carmaker led the market in 2013, but has no plans for an early end to production of combustion engine models

Times Online

• Space offers true spirit of enterprise that the critics should not dismissA few days ago, in a masterstroke of publicity as well as a stunning feat of technology, William Shatner, the 90-year-old actor, became the oldest human to journey into space. Captain Kirk has now boldly gone where no one, at least of his age, has gone before.
• Ford converting Halewood car plant to electricThe gearbox in an internal combustion engine built at Ford’s Halewood plant becomes redundant in a battery electric car. Instead, Halewood will make electric power units — also known as e-drives in the industry — which distribute power from the battery to the wheels. When it transitions to e-drive production in 2024, Halewood will become Ford’s first in-house electric vehicle component facility in Europe.

Bristol Live

• 'Important step forwards' for dead-end M49 junction in BristolThe M49 junction near Avonmouth was built nearly two years ago but motorists still can't use it

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Reduced speed limits and more cameras on the A55 to help with roadworksMore speed limits have been introduced on a stretch of the A55 as work continues on the road.

London Evening Standard

• Hundreds of jobs ‘saved’ after Ford chooses Halewood for electric carsThe firm is understood to be planning to spend £230 million converting its factory.

New Civil Engineer

• Council leader accuses National Highways of ‘riding roughshod’ over bridge infilling pauseThe leader of Lewes District Council has accused National Highways of “riding roughshod” over the government-enforced pause on its programme of infilling historic railway assets.