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Monday, 27 June 2011

BBC News

• Controversy dogs China's latest high-speed rail link [video]China is preparing to show-off its latest high-speed rail link. Fast trains on the Beijing-Shanghai route will make the 1,300km journey in just 5 hours.
• Luton Dunstable Busway: Diversions and roads closed Road closures and diversions come into operation on Monday as work starts on a new rapid public transport system in Bedfordshire.
• Suggestions to tackle rising congestion in London [video]Congestion has been rising in London despite measures by the City Hall and the government.
• MP attends railway rally A SOUTH Yorkshire MP has joined a rally in Westminster supporting the Yes to High Speed Rail campaign.
• Cambridgeshire County Council may redirect bus cash Transport subsidies in Cambridgeshire may be redirected to support community schemes run by new businesses.

Department for Transport

• New transparency rules for speed camerasFull information about speed cameras will be published by local authorities and the police for the first time, Road Safety Minister Mike Penning announced today.

The Herald

• Trams ˜glitch™ council chief is criticisedTHE leader of Edinburgh City Council has been criticised after describing the rising cost of the trams project as a œsmall glitch.
• What impact will Europe™s costliest roadway make?IT has been kicked around by planners for more than six decades but the long gestation appears not to have dimmed the excitement surrounding the opening of Glasgow™s œmissing link motorway tomorrow.
• Road link can transform city™s tourismGlasgow business leaders have hailed the potential economic benefit of a œnew era for transport, tourism, accessibility and commercial property development in anticipation of next week™s opening of the completed M74.

The Scotsman

• Brian Monteith: Minister setting a high-speed trapSNP support for the 250mph rail link will create problems for an independent Scotland over paying for it. WALKING into elephant traps is an ever-present danger for politicians, but it takes a special absent-mindedness to set one up for oneself or one's colleagues - but that appears to be what Scottish transport minister Keith Brown was doing last week.
• City chief says tram problems are 'just a small glitch' THE leader of Edinburgh council has been accused of insulting the city's taxpayers and of not living in the real world after she described the soaring cost of the capital's troubled tram project as "just a small glitch".
• Transport museum offers interactive lessons… in parking SCOTLAND'S newest museum - dedicated to transport - was overwhelmed with visitors at the weekend, with tens of thousands flocking to the attraction.
• M74 link 'won't ease Glasgow's congestion nightmare' WITH a price tag of £692 million - or £2,000 an inch - it is Scotland's most expensive road. But when it finally opens tomorrow, three years late and nearly three times over budget, experts fear the M74 extension in Glasgow could simply generate more traffic and do little to ease the country's most chronic congestion.

Belfast Telegraph

• Airport chief's bonus grounded Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) chief Declan Collier has been forced to give up his controversial 106,100 euro bonus amid Government pressure. In a statement the DAA said that in light of economic circumstances, Mr Collier would forego this year's payment.

Birmingham Mail

• Chinese prime minister to visit MG plant in Longbridge today Chinese premier Wen Jiabao will began his three-day trip to Britain by visiting Stratford-upon-Avon and the MG car plant in Longbridge today.

Derby Telegraph

• Less funding for dial-a-bus scheme COMMUNITY transport schemes are set to get less funding from Derbyshire County Council in the wake of fares being introduced for the services.

Liverpool Post

• Liverpool sixthformers and school pupils to have free bus passes axed SIXTH Form students across Liverpool are to be stripped of free bus passes completing a “triple whammy” of cuts it is feared will price them out of education.

The York Press

• York Cycle Show hailed a huge success TEN thousand cycle enthusiasts got on their bikes this weekend as they descended on York Racecourse for an annual cycling extravaganza.

Wales Online

• On the buses? Some drivers’ poor manners put passengers off using public transport WE’VE all been on the wrong end of their grudgingly given directions or refusal to stop for hurrying passengers anywhere further than a couple of feet from a prescribed bus stop.

Crewe Chronicle

• Crewe Rail Jobs Under Threat CREWE and Nantwich MP Edward Timpson has blasted the previous Labour government for placing Crewe rail jobs at risk.

Other Regional Press

• Views sought on Coventry rail services if HS2 goes ahead COVENTRY people will be asked what train services they would want at the city’s station if a new high speed rail line goes ahead.
• Legal threat prompts shock move by Cambridgeshire to suspend bus service cutsGlenn Edge, head of passenger transport services, will ask the council’s Cabinet on July 5 to hold the cuts “in abeyance during the currency of the review”.

Other News Sources

• Remove investment barriers: AmbassadorLONDON - China's ambassador to the UK said ahead of Premier Wen Jiabao's visit that London should avoid politicizing investment from Beijing.
• Bus users in Poole left in the lurchA BUS company is to review a route after Poole residents complained it left them cut off and unable to get to the town’s hospital.