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Monday, 24 August 2020

BBC News

• Snowdonia parking: Yellow lines to deter motorists at beauty spotHundreds of cars have had tickets with more visitors in Snowdonia since lockdown rules eased.
• Model rail enthusiast leaves £132,000 to heritage lineA man from Leicester leaves proceeds from his model rail collection to a Welsh heritage line.
• Road planners accused of rigging carbon emissions rulesEnvironmentalists say the transport department has under-counted carbon emissions from new roads.
• Old Military Road reopens after hillside stabilisedWork has been carried out to stabilise debris and boulders near the A83 in Argyll following days of heavy rain.

Financial Times

• Autonomous ships are about to set sailThe trimaran Mayflower is one of the initiatives aiming to revolutionise maritime transport

The Guardian

• The commute completely transformed Britain. Is it over for ever?It helped create the suburbs, with countless towns thriving due to good transport links. Now it is under threat, with potentially huge consequences for our cities and social livesIt is 7.45 on a Monday morning and I am heading for the office. It is my first visit to the Guardian for more than four months, but the prime minister wants us back at work. Commuters are reliable, law-abiding creatures of habit, cogs in a greater machine; I am doing what I am told.On the way out of the house, I pass a 1910 Underground poster in the hall, extolling the merits of my particular suburb. “Live in a New Ne...

The Telegraph

• How Britain could lead in carbon-free transport and create a booming green aviation hub [subscription]The UK is a throbbing centre of the airship revival, going head to head with France for global leadership

Times Online

• New 70 plate is make-or-break month for car trade [Subscription]Battered by the virus, dealers are hailing signs of an upturn but know more trouble lies ahead
• Scottish ministers knew Ferguson Marine shipyard was sinking before loan [subscription]Ministers knew a shipyard was near financial collapse two years before the state took it over, it has emerged.
• Sailors sick of fossil fuels want to turn shipping trade green [subscription]Ireland’s only surviving wooden cargo sailing boat embarked on a series of supply runs yesterday as part of a project to encourage the industry to rely less on fossil fuels.
• Return to school — and to traffic jams? [subscription]On the roads of Britain’s towns and cities, the moment of truth is next week. As parents return to the school run, the roads face their first serious test in the era of social distancing.
• Coronavirus: Dual airport tests could cut quarantine in UK to a week [subscription]The two-week quarantine imposed on arrivals from high-risk countries would be more than halved under plans for a new airport testing regime.
• Unfasten your seatbelts — we’ve landed early, thanks to lockdown [subscription]Empty skies have allowed aircraft to fly in a straight line, saving time and fuel

Birmingham Mail

• Clean Air Zone launch date to be confirmed 'within weeks'Cabinet member for transport Coun Waseem Zaffar says the government is pressing the council to get the Clean Air Zone up and running

Birmingham Post

• Jaguar Land Rover upcycles aluminium to slash carbon emissionsThe project forms part of the car maker's Destination Zero mission

Edinburgh Evening News

• Edinburgh pedestrians forced to cross busy cycle lane to use city centre busesThe design of the 'floating bus stops' mean people have to cross the cycle lane to board
• Edinburgh bartender pleads for night bus return after spending his wages on taxisAn Edinburgh bartender has called on Lothian Buses to reinstate the night bus as the city begins to head towards a 'new normal'.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Newcastle's Night Bus returns as more services get back to normalWeekend Night Bus between Newcastle and Durham will be among the services back in action in September

Other Regional Press

• Delays as train comes off tracksRail services are to be disrupted into next week after a train derailed.
• A31 to be widened in major road improvement scheme Highways England has unveiled the details of plans for £27.4 billion investment​ in the strategic road network across the country.

New Civil Engineer

• Government commits to £343M investment in Welsh rail infrastructureTransport secretary Grant Shapps has said that upgrades to Cardiff Central station, installation of digital signalling and step-free access improvements will be delivered as part of £343M investment in the Welsh rail network.

Other News Sources

• Helping Wales Turn the Corner on Public Transport By Alistair Gordon, CEO of Keolis UKOver a thousand maintenance activities overdue. A tired and inadequate depot. Old, unreliable rolling stock and not enough of it. Storm Callum sweeping in.
• Community Rail Partnership aims to help local people get the most benefit from their existing railway linesSouth West Wales now has its very own Community Rail Partnership, designed to help communities get the most benefit from their existing railway lines.
• Multi-Million Investment Boost for Welsh Rail NetworkMajor progress has been made on ambitious upgrades to Wales' railways following £343m of investment to help deliver better journeys for passengers.
• 'Fresh perspective' brought in to accelerate transport projects 2 days Transport secretary Grant Shapps has put a career lobbyist with no experience of engineering or construction in charge of accelerating infrastructure development.
• Coventry set for September train timetable changesTrain travellers in Coventry are set to see changes to the region's timetable from next month. From Sunday, September 6, a number of existing services will switch to a new timetable, impacting on train users in the city.
• Ex-Maersk Executive Charged in Petrobras Corruption SchemeBrazilian prosecutors pressed charges on Friday against two people for an alleged scheme to obtain confidential market information from Petrobras to benefit A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world's largest shipping company.The case stems from an investigation…