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Saturday, 26 April 2014

BBC News

• New city transport museum opensA new museum of transport featuring classic cars, buses and emergency service vehicles from around Tayside has opened in Dundee.
• Laws 'failing to protect cyclists'Thousands of campaigners are set to cycle to Holyrood in a call for greater protection for cyclists in Scotland.
• Cameron condemns planned Tube strikeThe Prime Minister has attacked planned strikes by London Underground workers over job cuts and ticket office closures.
• Car insurance costs 'fall sharply'Car insurance premiums have decreased sharply with the average price falling by more than £100 for the first three months of the year, figures suggest.

Financial Times

• HS2 faces amber signals in parliamentHS2 Action Alliance has joined a London borough to start legal action over obligations that ban development beside the planned line’s route
• UK’s SFO questioned Alstom executivesSerious Fraud Office officials travelled to Paris recently to question senior executives of the French group as part of a corruption investigation

The Herald

• Buses are key to ease congestionLOCAL Government and Planning Minister, Derek Mackay, has backed a week-long campaign to encourage people to use the bus.

The Independent

• Tube strike map April 2014: Which lines and stations will be affected by the walk-out? Ahead of the tube strikes due to start on Monday 28 April, Transport for London (TFL) has announced the services it plans to run during next week’s 48-hour walk-out.

The Telegraph

• Cameron: tube strike 'unjustified'David Cameron condemns tube strike as London Underground workers prepare to walk out on Monday
• Treasury minister: I will fight against HS2 rail projectAndrea Leadsom, the Prime Minister's new Treasury Minister, has urged David Cameron to rethink the HS2 rail project, saying that the £50 billion investment is not value for money

Daily Record

• Video: Twenty-one vehicles damaged in Edinburgh airport car park fireFIREFIGHTERS were called to Queen Anne Drive on the Lochend Industrial Estate at around 1.15am today. The car park is just under a mile from Edinburgh Airport and offers off-area parking.

Network Rail

• See track // think train – cyclists’ guide to using level crossings published by Network RailA new online guide to help cyclists safely use level crossings has been launched by Network Rail.

Birmingham Mail

• Rail strike threat if job loss talks falter RMT Midlands regional organiser Ken Usher warned the union would call a ballot for action if progress was not made in new discussions

Liverpool Echo

• Merseyrail passengers have their say on new trainsRail passengers were asked to have their say on the design of new trains ahead of plans to modernise the Merseyrail fleet.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Remember When: Heworth station - now and thenHeworth station is a busy transport interchange these days - here's a picture of the old tram terminus

Yorkshire Post

• Disappointment as direct fights from Leeds Bradford to Pakistan are axedPAKISTAN International Airlines has dropped Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) from its schedule of direct flights to Islamabad.

Crewe Chronicle

• Rail corrosion inspection leads to level crossing closureRadway Green level crossing will be closed over the weekend

Other Regional Press

• Petition to save 'Teesside Airport' from development taken to No10A petition to save Durham Tees Valley Airport from development signed by more than 4,000 people is today being handed in to Downing Street
• Luton Airport expansion agreement ‘weeks away’The planned expansion of Luton Airport will be agreed in the “next few weeks”, according to the president of operator Aena.

Global Rail News

• The rail industry needs more visible leadershipThe managing director of Bridgeway Consulting, Pino DeRosa, gives his thoughts on some of the key issues that challenge rail safety standards. Q: Visible and committed leadership is essential if[...]
• Government asked to spend £420m on HS2 wildlife restorationA new report has recommended the UK government spend an additional £420 million on wildlife restoration along the route of HS2 to mitigate the high-speed line’s environmental impact. Ahead of[...]
• DB Schenker to extend London Gateway servicesDB Schenker is to extend its daily services from London Gateway to Manchester, Daventry, Wakefield and South Wales from May. Steve Pryce, head of marketing and wagon management at DB[...]

Aviation Industry

• Report: Heathrow third runway could save $504 on a return ticket by 2030London’s Heathrow Airport says a report it commissioned from Frontier Economics estimates that by 2030 the average price of return ticket for passengers using the airport could cost £300 ($504) less if the airport is allowed to expand and add a third runway. read more
• London Luton expansion plans to get approvalPlans to double capacity at airport to be approved “in coming weeks”

Other News Sources

• Train Passengers in Merseyside are more sociable.​Rail users on Merseyside are more sociable than those in London and the south east according to new research, which reveals that passengers like to face each other during journeys.
• The burden of past generations on our shoulders: HS2 and compulsory purchaseThe CLA talks to landowners in Staffordshire facing compulsory purchase as a result of the HS2 project.