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Monday, 05 October 2020

Government

• PM launches review to boost connections across the UKThe Prime Minister launches independent review into transport connections across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, led by Sir Peter Hendy CBE.

BBC News

• Safety checks on roads and rail after heavy overnight rainFlood warnings are in place across parts of the east of Scotland following a night of heavy and persistent rain.
• Ola: London bans Uber rival over safety concernsTransport for London said the firm made more than 1,000 trips made by unlicensed drivers.
• Coronavirus: 'World's best airport' warns of prolonged crisisSingapore's Changi Airport says “battle with Covid-19 has just begunâ€� as it paints a bleak picture.

Financial Times

• TfL refuses new London licence to car-booking app OlaDecision citing ‘potential public safety consequences’ comes week after Uber wins battle to keep running in capital
• Test before you board is the only route back to air travel Previous generations knew what it took to deal with infectious outbreaks

The Guardian

• Activists try to stop autobahn being built through German forestDannenröder tree felling will be a catastrophe, say environmental campaignersThousands of climate activists gathered in a stretch of woodland north of Frankfurt on Sunday as a planned motorway extension through the Dannenröder forest pits the autobahn against 250-year-old oak trees.About 27 hectares (67 acres) of forest are to supposed to cleared by next February to make way for a new 3km stretch of the A49 dual carriageway. Police in the state of Hesse are preparing for months of stand-offs with protesters, who say the erosion of a healthy mixed forest makes a mockery of the German government...

Times Online

• Eastern HS2 will redress years of decline, Boris Johnson told [subscription]Boris Johnson is under mounting pressure to commit the government to the eastern leg of HS2 amid warnings that the route is needed to address “decades of chronic underinvestment” in the railways.
• Airport testing may finally get clearance for take-off in days [subscription]Ministers may finally announce airport testing this week as they sought to explain the delay in implementing the policy as an attempt to find the best possible system.

Reuters News

• UK PM launches transport review to boost economy, strengthen tiesLONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson launched a review aimed at improving transport links across the UK, including a possible bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland, as part of a plan to boost the pandemic-hit economy and strengthen ties between its member nations.

City AM

• Coronavirus: Is the UK set to shake-up quarantine-free travel rules and finally begin airport testing for arrivals?The UK Government is set to make an announcement on airport testing “in the coming days,” as the list of quarantine-free travel options diminishes
• Ride hailing app Ola banned in LondonUber rival Ola has been banned from operating in the capital by Transport for London The post Ride hailing app Ola banned in London appeared first on CityAM.

i News

• Testing plan for new arrivals to Britain to be set out, Grant Shapps disclosesTransport Secretary predicts aviation and railways will eventually return stronger than ever after the pandemic

Birmingham Post

• East Mids aviation business improves fleet and adapts to lockdownNew plane means RVL now has four turbo-prop King Air aircraft in operation alongside its Cessnas
• How booting the commute could transform the Welsh economyGareth Jones, the co-founder of Town Square which seeks to bring creative communities together, asks whether it is time to change the way we work

Northern Echo

• Teesside Airport tipped as possible location for Treasury's Northern campusA TREASURY Northern campus could be built near Darlington, the Northern Echo understands. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced plans to relocate part of the Treasury to the North in the budget in March.
• MPs call for full delivery of HS2MPs are calling for the full delivery of HS2's eastern leg to bridge the East-West divide following a report highlighting “starkâ€� economic inequalities.

The York Press

• Trans-Siberian 'blockbuster' for NRM A MAJOR new exhibition is to be staged at York's National Railway Museum about the world’s longest and most famous rail journey – the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Other Regional Press

• Chiltern Railways trains slower in autumn because of leavesA TRAIN provider will be running slower trains from this week because of leaves on the lines.

New Civil Engineer

• Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce backs temporary ferry crossingThe Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce has backed a short-term ferry service to provide a route across the Thames while the bridge remains closed.
• Jacobs to manage Highways England’s railway assetsJacobs has won the £30M contract to monitor and manage Highways England’s historic railway assets.
• Crossrail confirms Network Rail stations delayCrossrail Ltd has confirmed that upgrade works to surface stations on the eastern and western sections of the railway will be pushed into next year due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Heathrow and HS2 gear up for October court battlesThe country’s two biggest infrastructure projects face key court battles this month. Heathrow Airport Ltd heads to the Supreme Court in its bid to overturn a previous court ruling which effectively ended its expansion plans.

The Business Desk

• Call for HS2’s Eastern leg to be delivered in fullA group of 53 MPs, civic and business leaders from across the Midlands and the North have written to Boris Johnson calling for the full delivery of HS2’s Eastern leg from Birmingham to Leeds. In a letter to the Prime Minister, the cross-party group cites a new report which demonstrates stark social and economic inequalities between the Eastern and Western regions of the Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine.

Transportxtra

• PM launches review of transport connections across the UKSir Peter Hendy CBE to lead independent review of road, rail, sea and air links across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England
• PM launches review of transport connections across the UKSir Peter Hendy CBE to lead independent review of road, rail, sea and air links across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England

Other News Sources

• This is the road in Hereford with the most reported potholes AN online map from Herefordshire Council has revealed there are currently dozens of potholes in Hereford waiting to be filled in.