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Creating the transport decarbonisation plan

Document stating the current challenges and steps to be taken when developing the transport decarbonisation plan.

Coach and bus industry reacts as COVID-19 crisis deepens

After a week of daily updates from the Prime Minister, operators are now putting measures in place to help deal with the drop in work and the mass reduction in passenger levels

Friday, 27 March 2020

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  • Ryanair accused of ripping off passengers over rebooked flightsDublin-based airline charging up to £80 more for replacement flights , says Which?Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRyanair has been accused of ripping off passengers after it was found to be charging £80 more to those rebooking cancelled flights.What do the restrictions involve? Continue reading...

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  • Blackpool Tramway to close as West Midlands Metro announces reduced servicesThe Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramway is to temporarily close from Sunday 29th March as further service restrictions are introduced in the UK as a result of the continuing Coronavirus pandemic. It has also been confirmed that the West Midlands Metro will become the last of the UK’s tram systems to operate a reduced service with a temporary timetable now due to run from Monday 30th March.
  • In Pictures: New advert liveries in ManchesterIn what probably seemed a good idea when they decided to take out advertising contracts two further trams in Manchester have recently received new vinyl wraps. We’ve already mentioned in the Trafford Park line opening article that 3073 is now advertising intu Trafford Centre with the other new advert on 3091 for Go North Wales.
  • Trams to Newhaven construction work to be suspendedWork on constructing the Edinburgh Trams extension to Newhaven is to be suspended this week as part of the continued restrictions in light of the Coronavirus pandemic. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, has instructed all construction sites to close, unless the project is essential and after discussions it had been decreed that the tram extension does not fall into this category.
  • Stockport 5 all dressed up and nowhere to go!It was going to be the centrepiece of Heaton Park Tramway’s 40th birthday bash (scheduled to take place on Sunday 29th March), the relaunch into service of Stockport 5 following the completion of its overhaul. But after the restrictions put in place as a result of the Coronavirus (one of these days I well get to write an article where I don’t have to type that word!), 5 will have to wait a bit longer to meet its adoring public.

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  • Infrarail to be postponed to May 2021Mack Brooks Exhibitions has announced the postponement of Infrarail, the UK’s leading showcase of railway infrastructure technology and expertise.  The 13th edition of the event, which was planned to take place at London Olympia from 12 to 14 May 2020, is postponed following the escalation of COVID-19 in Europe. The exhibition will now be co-located and take place alongside Railtex 2021, the UK’s premier exhibition of railway equipment, systems and services, taking place at the NEC in Birmingham from 11 – 13 May 2021.  Speaking about the announcement, Nicola Haman...

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  • SNCF deploys hospital TGVFRANCE: SNCF has started transporting Covid-19 patients using a TGV Duplex trainset that has been has adapted as a mobile hospital unit. It is being used to evacuate recuperating patients from hot spot areas where the hospitals are saturated to regions which have spare capacity in their intensive care facilities.

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