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Cars as new as five years old could be banned in Edinburgh
Cars which fail to meet strict pollution limits face being banned from the whole of Edinburgh under radical plans drawn up by the city council.
'Be brave and get on with it' - Bath urged to build tram network
Imagine a world in which Bath's roads were not clogged with traffic. A world where people compared the city to Vienna or Zurich.
What can improve Stoke-on-Trent's declining bus network? (Ideas include more real-time information and new ways of paying...)
Some politicians believe franchising is the answer – but the city's main operator wants a partnership approach. Stoke-on-Trent’s declining bus network was one of the key battleground issues in the city’s all-out elections. Competing parties pledged to take advantage of new powers and revive public transport after years of falling use and service cutbacks.
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BBC News
- Scotland's papers: Anti-pollution car ban and Brexit 'pact'A ban on high-emission cars in Edinburgh and Theresa May moving towards a Brexit
The Guardian
- Tell us: how fair are bus ticket prices where you live?Bus passengers in parts of England are paying high fares to travel short distances, with new reporting highlighting a particular discrepancy between those living inside and outside major cities.
- Crossrail and other overoptimistic plans - LettersThe National Audit Office report (NAO blames Crossrail delay on ‘unrealistic’ management, 4 May) advances us part way towards an understanding of why so many major projects, of all sorts, are “delayed” and “over budget”. Whenever a gap opens up between plan and performance, the overwhelming tendency is to blame the managers/workers who “failed” to meet the target. In fact, the problem is often with overoptimistic, unrealistic plans in the first place. Crossrail is just one of many examples.
- Sleepless nights for cyclists on the Caledonian Sleeper trainI’m glad the new Caledonian Sleeper trains have all mod cons (Report, 30 April), but they’re not doing much to facilitate green travel.
The Herald
- Subway modernisation programme will bring many benefits to passengers - Councillor Dr Martin Bartos, Chair SPTThe current £288 million Subway modernisation programme will see the introduction of brand new state-of-the-art trains with a new communication and signalling system; the complete refurbishment of all 15 stations by 2020, of which 13 have already been done; and has introduced new Smartcard ticketing technology adopted by ScotRail and many bus operators across the west of Scotland. All of this is being achieved while we continue to transport around 40,000 passengers round the system daily.
The Independent
- Boeing 737: Passengers recount terrifying landing after plane crashes into Florida riverCrash follows troubled year for Boeing over safety issues with separate 737 Max aircraft
- Edinburgh city centre goes car-free to combat air pollutionOpen air yoga and chess games fill streets for trial initiative
- Russia plane crash: Do the country's airlines still have a safety problem?After another air tragedy involving a domestic flight in Russia, what is the aviation safety record in the world's biggest country – and how concerned should travellers be?
The Scotsman
- Watch: First of Glasgow’s new driverless Subway trains arrives for testingTHE first of Glasgow’s new Subway fleet - which will make history as the first in the UK to run with no staff on board - has arrived for testing.
- Cars as new as five years old could be banned in EdinburghCars which fail to meet strict pollution limits face being banned from the whole of Edinburgh under radical plans drawn up by the city council.
Times Online
- Crossrail drivers paid millions despite delays [subscription]Almost 500 train drivers are being employed by Crossrail on salaries of up to £59,000 even though the line’s opening has been delayed by two years.
- Jaguar tests smart car that can pay for its own parking [subscription]Motorists could automatically pay for parking, toll bridges and congestion charges under plans to turn cars into wallets on wheels.
- Edinburgh mulls ban on most polluting cars [subscription]Radical plans to ban the most polluting vehicles from Edinburgh are being considered by city leaders.
This is Money
- Airport boss targets green lobby and says electric planes will mean we can have a supersize Heathrow - AND save the planetUnder the plans, a third runway will be built at Heathrow that would boost passenger numbers from 78 million a year to 130 million. Holland-Kaye, who took up the top job in 2014 after joining as commercial director in 2009, believes Brexit has added several degrees of importance to the expansion drive.
Derby Telegraph
- Why people returning to East Midlands Airport should no longer queue up in the rainPassengers arriving at East Midlands Airport should no longer have to queue up in the rain to have their passports checked after plans to extend the terminal were given the go-ahead.
London Evening Standard
- 'Brexit tensions partly to blame,' charity claims, as racist offences double on TfL rail network in space of four yearsRacist offences on Transport for London's (TfL) rail network have doubled in the space of four years, with a leading anti-hate crime charity saying Brexit tensions could be partly to blame.
Nottingham Evening Post
- New bus service to take shoppers to East Midlands Designer OutletThe Stagecoach East Midlands Mansfield Miller number one route has been extended to provide a quick link to the South Normanton complex - running every 30 minutes.
Other Regional Press
- 'Be brave and get on with it' - Bath urged to build tram networkImagine a world in which Bath's roads were not clogged with traffic. A world where people compared the city to Vienna or Zurich.
- What can improve Stoke-on-Trent's declining bus network? (Ideas include more real-time information and new ways of paying...)Some politicians believe franchising is the answer – but the city's main operator wants a partnership approach. Stoke-on-Trent’s declining bus network was one of the key battleground issues in the city’s all-out elections. Competing parties pledged to take advantage of new powers and revive public transport after years of falling use and service cutbacks.
- Old buses 'dumped' in Norwich after other cities get new vehiclesThe owners of the city's two biggest bus operators, First and Konect, both send old buses to the city from other parts of the country when those areas get new vehicles.
Aviation Industry
- Boeing did not fix MAX AOA warning issue found in 2017Boeing discovered in 2017 that its 737 MAXs were being delivered without a flight-deck angle of attack (AOA) error warning activated as intended, but determined the issue was not a safety risk and did not need immediate correction, the company said May 5. read more
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