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Sunday, 21 March 2021

BBC News

• Cardiff Airport: M4 to A48 link road funds deniedThe road would have linked the M4 with the A48 and cost up to £81m.
• Elon Musk denies Tesla cars are used for spying in ChinaThe electric carmaker boss addresses reports of security concerns raised by China's military.
• New Royal Navy ship to protect 'critical' undersea cablesUK intelligence recently warned of Russian submarines
• Coronavirus: Trams and light rail get extra £33m fundOperators in northern England and the Midlands get grant as they continue with low passenger numbers.

Financial Times

• RAF Hercules to be axed under plans to modernise militaryLong-serving transport will be retired in the biggest armed forces shake-up in decades
• Airlines struggle to take off in face of $300bn debt headwindsRecovery may take years as industry grapples with rescue finance and state loan bills

The Guardian

• Mind the gaps: will we go back to public transport after Covid?When lockdown emptied the UK's trains and buses, their operators' revenues collapsed. Now home working and cycling could become a permanent threat to their financesA year ago, with the first coronavirus lockdown looming, passengers were warned to stay away from public transport. Now many are wondering whether that message can ever be reversed.City centres in particular have been affected by the switch of huge numbers of office staff to working from home. This development threatens to permanently upend the model that has sustained the private rail system, and the coffers of cities that relied o...

The Herald

• Chaos on A83 at Rest and be Thankful will shut businesses and is a 'disaster' for economy and jobs, say campaignersBUSINESSES will go to the wall by the end of the year because of an over 15-year failure to prevent landslips on a notorious lifeline Scots road - which could be solved with a Norway-style tunnel in three years.

The Telegraph

• Dogs could be used to sniff out asymptomatic Covid cases at airports, mass gatherings

Times Online

• Justine McCarthy: Transport review puts women in the back seat [Subscription]Exclusion of female voices shows Leinster House is asleep at the wheel
• Interview: Charles Woodburn, the skipper trying to navigate BAE through stormy seas [Subscription]Trident submarines, Tempest jets: BAE’s boss has a battle on his hands. Then there’s Saudi Arabia
• Commuters leave the office far behind [Subscription]The pandemic means many of us spend fewer days travelling to work — and that could double the size of city suburbs

City AM

• London needs a transport shake-up, with cheaper rail prices, e-scooters and new funding systems for TfLOne year into the pandemic and London is on the brink of a transport revolution. For many the only obvious The post London needs a transport shake-up, with cheaper rail prices, e-scooters and new funding systems for TfL appeared first on CityAM.

Daily Record

• Travelling abroad this summer 'extremely unlikely' says Government adviserDr Mike Tildesley is warning that the spread of new variants could jeopardise the vaccination rollout.
• Scotrail operator given more than £200 million in aid before nationalisationAbellio was given the cash as part of help during the pandemic in addition to franchise payments.

This is Money

• British Airways plots sale of its Heathrow HQAfter many staff worked remotely during the pandemic, bosses are considering whether the same amount of office space will be needed if they continue to do so in future.

Sky News

• Calls for UK government to allow foreign travel, as scientists warn of dangers from Europe's third waveThere is growing pressure on the government to allow foreign holidays, despite fears of a third wave of the coronavirus being imported from Europe.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Online meetings to look at future of local public transport WEST Yorkshire's future transport plans are to be discussed at a series of online public meetings.

Bristol Live

• Residents ask drivers to slow down in guerrilla sign speed campaignCampaigners spoke to drivers and put up their own speeding signs

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Ghost trains and deserted stations as Llangollen Railway at junction in historyCompany thousands of pounds in debt but enthusiasts hope to embark on new journey down the line to a brighter future

Northern Echo

• Viewing platform at Teesside Airport to make return after years of closure A ONCE-popular viewing platform at Teesside Airport will make a return following years of closure.

The York Press

• YOUR editorial on Wednesday about potholes in York (March 17), reminded me of the following 'our cars have to be roadworthy but are roads are not car worthy'.

Burnley Express

• Transdev: Lancashire firm welcomes £3 billion government bus strategy A THREE billion pound scheme to revamp the nation's busses has been welcomed by a Lancashire bus operator and MP.

Cambridge News

• Cambs Metro could extend to Peterborough under new plansPeople living in north Cambridgeshire would benefit from the new route

Leeds Live

• Leeds council issue statement on 'death trap canal bridge'The canal bridge in Wyther Lane was hit by a car later found abandoned

Peterborough Telegraph

• LNER cleaners on Peterborough’s East Coast Main Line trains clock up half a million hours working day and night to ensure customers travel with Covid confidenceA team of 360 specialists have been working around-the-clock delivering more than half a million hours of enhanced cleaning this past year on main line trains passing through Peterborough station.
• LNER cleaners on Peterborough’s East Coast Main Line trains clock up half a million hours working day and night to ensure customers travel with Covid confidenceA team of 360 specialists have been working around-the-clock delivering more than half a million hours of enhanced cleaning this past year on main line trains passing through Peterborough station.
• LNER cleaners on Peterborough’s East Coast Main Line trains clock up half a million hours working day and night to ensure customers travel with Covid confidenceA team of 360 specialists have been working around-the-clock delivering more than half a million hours of enhanced cleaning this past year on main line trains passing through Peterborough station.

Reading Evening Post

• Crossrail could be open by 2022 - but only if it gets more cashThe Elizabeth Line to Reading is now four years overdue and nearly £3 billion over budget

Other Regional Press

• More e-scooters will be rolled out in Oxford soonELECTRIC scooters will be rolled out in more areas of Oxford in the near future.
• A326 in the New Forest to be improvedPLANS to build new cycle paths and footways along a major Hampshire road have been given the green light after residents feared the road could become a 'death trap'.
• No Expressway group now plans to fight housing growth plansTHE alliance which campaigned against building a new road across vast swathes of countryside near their homes has welcomed news the project has been cancelled.
• Lost South Yorkshire railway lines with stations in odd placesThe industrial heartland was once served by an extensive and complex system of railways
• Six new UK driving laws in 2021 every motorist should know The Department for Transport has confirmed 2021 is set to bring changes to some motoring laws and policies.
• Easyjet announces two new routes from Bournemouth AirportEASYJET has announced two new routes from Bournemouth Airport this summer.
• When cruise ships moored in Weymouth Bay could leave and resume cruises THE multi-million pound cruise ships moored in Bay have been one of the highlights of a challenging 12 months.
• Council sets the record straight on funding for major road projectsBoth are set to ease the congestion around Nuneaton's traffic-choked ring road

C.N.N.

• Experts say it's a tight race between coronavirus variants and vaccines in the US as air travel hits records and spring break crowds growThe pandemic's end is in sight -- but right now, the US is in a critical spot.