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Monday, 14 July 2014

BBC News

• VIDEO: Call for airport expansion responseA group of business leaders has criticised the government's lack of response to a report on airport expansion.
• Call for airport expansion responseA group of business leaders criticises the government's lack of response to a report on airport expansion.
• Bus staff get £120 Games bonusStaff at bus company First Glasgow receive a £120 bonus for working during the Commonwealth Games.
• FM and Arriva Trains' Twitter clashFirst Minister Carwyn Jones and Arriva Trains Wales clash publicly on social media over the absence of Welsh language announcements at a Cardiff station.

Financial Times

• Flight MH370: Record casts doubt on ‘never again’ promiseAuthorities failed to act on a previous disaster
• Budget carriers create a new map for airlinesCut-price upstarts gain the advantage
• The 21st century promises era of radical change, but no rocket beltsIt is easy to feel that the pace of development in aviation has slowed
• FirstGroup rules out break-upChairman says suggestion from US investor to sell Greyhound coaches and spin off school bus and transit businesses lacks financial logic

The Herald

• Plan to add UK runway condemnedPLANS to expand UK airport capacity are "based on a wing and a prayer" according to two reports from environmental groups.
• Traffic-free plan to boost businessesTRAFFIC could be banned from Byres Road, Glasgow under plans to give the area a facelift.
• Record passenger numbers for airport EDINBURGH Airport has become the first Scottish terminal in history to exceed more than 10 million passengers in a single year.

The Observer

• Railways: is renationalising our train system really a good idea?Very few journeys are made by rail these days say some, while others claim that railway use is on the increase

Times Online

• Runway delay is hitting growth, bosses warn [subscription]FIFTY business leaders have attacked the government’s aviation policy, accusing ministers of a “lack of political leadership” that risks “strangling” growth. In a letter published by The Sunday Times today, the business chiefs, including the bosses of Dixons, Thomas Cook and House of Fraser, say it is “unacceptable” that the government has not responded to the Airports Commission’s key recommendation that at least one new runway needs to be built in southeast England.
• Inside the City: Passengers miss bus at First Group [subscription]THE busload of investors fuming over the pay of First Group chief executive Tim O’Toole is threatening to crash through the transport giant’s annual investor meeting on Wednesday in Aberdeen.
• Landmark report shows how buses can be engine for growth [subscription]New research shows that if you invest in Britain’s bus network, you open the door to economic expansion

Birmingham Post

• Green transport schemes receive £3 million funding boost Package of Birmingham and Solihull transport initiatives will strive to boost economic growth and cut carbon

Journal Live

• North East council leaders to unite on region's rail plansLobbying efforts for Northern Rail and East Coast services will take place this week in Newcastle

London Evening Standard

• 'Driverless' buses and 10mph zone on Oxford St could be the future for central London Automated vehicles could cut the number of deaths and injuries on London’s roads by 90 per cent, a major study on the future of transport in the capital claimed today.

Manchester Evening News

• Fantastique! Cycling hub is unveiled in Rochdale following town's Tour de France gloryFacility which is due to open this week has room for 42 bikes and is next to the railway station and Metrolink stop in the town centre

Wales Online

• Messages on healthy lifestyles are 'not reaching women in Wales'Survey results show that markedly more women than men had done no “active travel” in the seven days before answering the questionnaire
• Wales in the hunt to become the UK's Cape CanaveralA British spaceport could be developed at a site in Wales as the Government looks to exploit a sector which already employs 34,000 people

Yorkshire Post

• Rail plan ’will create jobs and boost economy’TRANSPORT group Arriva is planning a new inter-city rail service linking West Yorkshire and Lincolnshire with London, which it says will create jobs and lead to a better deal for passengers.
• Plan for better regional rail links to LondonYORKSHIRE’S TRAVELLERS will enjoy improved rail access to the heart of London if plans submitted by transport company Arriva gain support from the regulator.

North Wales Live

• Liverpool partners combine to offer free Cruise Connector bus service to cruise ship passengersPassengers are greeted by City Stars volunteers and offered information on city centre attractions and history

Plymouth Herald

• MPs still waiting for rail link reportTHE rail report into the future of the Dawlish line connecting Plymouth to London has still not been finalised, according to Network Rail.

Other Regional Press

• Four reports from the Airports Commission have been published on the feasibility of an Inner Thames Estuary airportAn airport in the Thames Estuary would involve spending billions on widening the M25 and other routes and a huge compensation bill to close Heathrow, it's been revealed.
• M62 drivers warned of delays for THREE YEARS as improvement works planned on westbound section towards Manchester start todayJust 10 months after the new ‘smart’ motorway was completed around Huddersfield and Brighouse, work is to start on another long stretch

Other News Sources

• Yorkshire to get a slice of £64 million investment for green transport schemesTransport Minister Baroness Kramer has announced that dozens of sustainable transport schemes have got the green light for government funding this week, including three in Yorkshire.