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Sunday, 15 August 2021

BBC News

• Cheers Drive: Name plea for Cardiff bus station roadCould the well-known south Wales phrase become a real road in praise of Cardiff's bus drivers?

Financial Times

• With skies still quiet, airlines battle over lucrative transatlantic routesCarriers have found it hard to make cheap fares work but several are now lining up to try as Covid restrictions ease

The Guardian

• They said we were eccentrics: the UK team developing clean aviation fuelIn the search for sustainable flying, Cranfield University might have found the answer in hydrogenThis row of brick sheds, locked away down overgrown country lanes in Bedfordshire, feels a long way from the glossy boardroom presentations about sustainable aviation. But it was recently the backdrop, in the search for greener flying, to a strange and remarkable scene.

The Independent

• ’We’ll win more slots at Heathrow,’ predicts jetBlue bossExclusive: ’Everyone thinks there’s all this competition across the Atlantic. There isn’t,’ says chief executive Robin Hayes

The Scotsman

• Access route to remote Munro blocked by rail companyAn access route to one of Scotland's most remote Munros has been blocked by a rail company.

The Telegraph

• Sadiq Khan pushes on with congestion charge expansion plan [subscription]Drivers face new charges under Mayor’s ’Checkpoint Chigwell’ plan intended to help plug £500m a year gap in Transport for London's finances

Times Online

• Ministers taking a wrong turn with e-lorries - Letter [subscription]ou report that electric lorries could charge on the go beneath a network of overhead power lines on our motorways (News, last week). Given the shortage of HGV drivers, I wonder if anyone has considered joining up about 40 e-lorry trailers to be pulled by one big, efficient electric tractor unit. You could call it a locomotive. To avoid safety risks such as collision with other vehicles, the lorry trailers and locomotive could be put on their own separate road or track.
• How green is your flight? Airlines to reveal the true cost of travel [subscription]Knowledge of the CO2 emissions of their flights would allow travellers to shun the most polluting carriers

City AM

• Sajid Javid cuts cost of NHS Covid test for travel to £68In a bid to help holidaymakers and drive down the market rate for Covid tests for travel, the health secretary The post Sajid Javid cuts cost of NHS Covid test for travel to £68 appeared first on CityAM.

Daily Express

• Commuters on UK trains face Covid infections and death, new figures showCOMMUTERS are running the risk of dying from Covid on trains over the next four months, rail safety chiefs have warned.

Daily Record

• Scotland's highest-paid public transport boss pictured on holiday driving illegal cloned carStrathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) chief executive Gordon Maclennan had a VW Passat in his staff car park and another at his holiday home, both with the same registration plate.

London Evening Standard

• Naked bikers ride again in London after long wait to bare it allThe World Naked Bike Ride returned to London after a year off due to Covid.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Easington MP hits out at overcrowding 'chaos' on Durham Coastline railwayCounty Durham MP Grahame Morris, who represents Easington, has criticised rail operator Northern after passengers were reportedly left unable to board trains on the Durham Coastline railway

Cambridge News

• Jet2, Ryanair, easyJet, TUI: Government urged to pay for 'hugely expensive' PCR test costsThere have also been calls to abandon the traffic light system

Other Regional Press

• East Midlands Airport bosses call for PCR tests to be scrappedEast Midlands Airport’s bosses are calling for an end to expensive PCR testing as passengers using the venue continues to remain low.
• Campaign group welcomes 'revisions' to Shrewsbury relief road planA group campaigning against the North West Relief Road has welcomed the announcement that revisions are being made to the plans.
• Outgoing transport boss claims infrastructure boost could create 800,000 jobs in the NorthUp to 800,000 jobs and £100billion could be added to northern England’s economy over the next generation if transport links are improved, according to one of the region’s outgoing infrastructure bosses.
• New Essex railway station could be on its wayChelmsford City Council has received an environmental impact assessment application for Beaulieu railway station, which may have a significant influence on the final plan.

Rail Advent

• TransPennine Express launches ’Chatty Benches’ initiative to support the Campaign to End LonelinessThe brand new ’Chatty Benches’ project is aimed at putting an end to loneliness by increasing conversations between customers following the pandemic, enforcing reduced interaction.
• New HS2 material depot in Buckinghamshire opens to keep lorries off local roadsThis week has seen a new railhead open near Calvert in Buckinghamshire as part of HS2, and will allow an additional 150 aggregate trains to deliver materials for the massive project. Using rail to deliver material will save 8,300 tonnes of carbon, which is comparable to taking 24,000 lorries off of the road.

Other News Sources

• Fight or flight: How one of the UK’s busiest airports defends against cyber-attacksINTERVIEW Hacking an airport conjures mental images of Bruce Willis blockbusters, hijacked planes, and a moody hacker-in-a-hoody wreaking havoc from some undisclosed location.
• Welsh minister proposes transport alliance with Scotland and Northern IrelandWelsh Government minister Lee Waters has suggested that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland should form a transport alliance that excludes England.