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Monday, 24 September 2018

BBC News

• Compensation for delay-hit Northern passengers extendedNon-season ticket holders affected by the rail disruption in the summer are now eligible to make a claim.
• Labour could renationalise railways in five years - McDonnellJohn McDonnell says he will create a Treasury unit to oversee the party's plans for more public ownership.
• Italy opens probe into Ryanair hand luggage chargesThe airline's new Italian luggage charges may amount to unfair commercial practice, a watchdog says.

Department for Transport

• Open Consultation - New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cyclingSeeks views on proposed new offences of causing death or serious injury while cycling and changes to the existing offences of dangerous and careless cycling.

The Guardian

• In Britain’s chaotic rail system, as elsewhere, we need a clever state to play a full partThe challenge is not to surrender to markets nor to socialise them, but to harness them
• Letter - Grayling’s on a siding to nothing with railways and Chequers Readers criticise Chris Grayling’s response to a damning report about the rail timetable fiasco, and his defence of Theresa May’s Brexit plan
• Air pollution rots our brains. Is that why we don’t do anything about it?Carbon monoxide and lead make us intellectually slower and less flexible. We can’t ignore these dangers any longer
• Opec predicts massive rise in oil production over next five yearsIncreasing demand from airlines will more than offset reductions from electric cars

Times Online

• Call for blanket 20mph limits in residential areas [Subscription]A speed limit of 20 miles an hour should be imposed on all residential streets, according to a politician who believes road safety in Scotland is a “postcode lottery”.
• Two Wheels GoodAs the number of people in Ireland travelling by bicycle continues to increase, there is also a growing recognition that more needs to be done politically to facilitate the development of such an environmentally friendly trend.
• Engineering graduates work their way up the salary tables [Subscription]The sector offers starting wages that rival those in medicine and investment banking

City AM

• TfL to lose out on £10m in advertising from Elizabeth Line delay in further blow to financesTransport for London (TfL) is to lose a further £10m in advertising from the delay to the opening of Crossrail, City A.M. can reveal.

Daily Express

• 'How MUCH?" ANOTHER Labour numbers blunder as MP CAN'T say how much KEY policy will costTHE Labour Party leadership seemed unable to get their numbers straight over key policy proposals once again after Labour MP Dawn Butler refused to put a price on plans to renationalise the railways within five years if the Labour Party came to power.

London Evening Standard

• Hundreds of angry travellers packed onto Euston station concourse amid train delays as thousands head to Labour conferenceThere were chaotic scenes at Euston station today as thousands of people made their way up north for the Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool.

Metro

• Cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats without seeing any cars, charity It’s hoped a new network of bridleways that run from Land’s End to John O’Groats could mean cyclists will be able to travel over 1,000 miles without meeting a single car.

East Anglian Daily Times

• Would a nationalised rail company buy hundreds of new trains for East Anglia?This weekend sees the party conference season move up a gear with the start of the Labour Conference in Liverpool – an event that politicos across the country will be watching closely.

Get West London

• Polling around Heathrow Airport shows what residents really think of the third runway plansPolling of Uxbridge, Hayes, Southall, Feltham and surrounding areas shows how communities feel about Heathrow

Other Regional Press

• Shakeup of key local rail routes planned for October The railway line between Larbert and Dunblane will close for several days next month while work to electrify the Stirling, Dunblane and Alloa lines is carried out.
• 31 people fined for boarding a train in the South West without a valid ticketThey were prosecuted when they appeared at Bristol Magistrates' Court
• Rail campaigners say Transpennine Express let off the hook for rail chaosAn inquiry by the Office for Rail and Road (ORR) has concluded that no one took charge of the huge project, that left Northern and TransPennine rail services in complete disarray
• Scheme is on track to make a rail difference for BorderersScheme is on track to make a rail difference for Borderers

New Civil Engineer

• Fears government review will derail Heathrow linkBosses behind the proposed Heathrow Southern Rail (HSR) link have expressed concerns over the impact the government’s rail review will have on the scheme.
• Autonomous pods, freight line and rail sell-off mooted for Heathrow expansionWindsor Link Railway (WLR) has revealed its ideas to cut costs and deliver Heathrow Airport’s third runway.
• Network Rail won't fell more trees despite calls from ORR chiefNetwork Rail will not increase its tree felling programme despite calls from the Chief Inspector of Railways to do so.

Transport Times

• Fixing a broken railway and connecting Heathrow – Windsor Link RailwayThe British railway network is littered with bad planning decisions. For all the vim and technical precocity of the Victorian era's market-led approach to railway construction, Britain's rail network has remained a series of unconnected lines and branches leaving a legacy unbefitting of a modern state. Yet while some lines have since been refined with 'missing links', for instance the Ordsall Chord in Manchester, others have been ignored, allowing this legacy to exacerbate the modern strains on the national rail network.

Other News Sources

• Heathrow takes vital step towards carbon neutralityHeathrow plans for the airport to be carbon neutral by 2020, and eventually for its infrastructure to be zero carbon by 2050
• Heathrow admits ’more work to do’ over impact of third runwayHeathrow today conceded that it has “more work to do” to address local concerns about the impact of a third runway.
• Lilian Greenwood: reviewing a year in transport policyIt is vital that we see fast and tangible change for the UK’s beleaguered rail passengers, writes Transport Select Committee chair Lilian Greenwood
• Replacement buses next month for all Forth Valley routesRail commuters in the Forth Valley are facing a week of disruption next month.
• Stage Coach resumes Winchester night bus serviceSTAGECOACH has resumed running night buses on two routes in Winchester city centre, saving money for the council tax payer.