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New transport blueprint unveiled for Scotland

Mass transit schemes in big cities and bridges or tunnels to replace some island ferry links are among the recommendations.

Boris Johnson, give the north the transport you promised - Steve Rotheram [Subscription]

ysfunctional. Unreliable. Holding the country back. A national embarrassment. No, not our partying prime minister and his government, but the state of railways across the north.

Government urged to reconsider ‘compelling case’ for underground Manchester station

Manchester City Council has called on the government to reconsider the "compelling case" for an underground station in the city.

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  • Britishvolt gets £100m boost to build UK’s first large-scale ‘gigafactory’The deal to build an electric car battery plant near Blyth will bring up to 3,000 jobs to the area by 2028The UK government will invest £100m in Britishvolt as the car battery manufacturing startup seeks to build Britain’s first large-scale “gigafactory” in the north-east of England.The government’s Automotive Transformation Fund will invest alongside asset management company Abrdn and its majority-owned property investment arm, Tritax, to fund a sale and leaseback deal for the huge building that will house the electric car battery factory, near Blyth in Northumberland. Continue reading...

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  • Smart motorway rollout to be pausedThe rollout of any new smart motorway schemes will be paused until a full five years’ worth of safety data is available, the Government has announced, and the Department for Transport (DfT) is to invest £900 million to improve safety on existing all lane running motorways.
  • Farewell to Cardiff’s bendy busesArticulated or ‘bendy’ buses, have added a touch of European style to Wales’ capital city but as Cardiff Bus prepared to say farewell to the remaining buses, Andrew Wiltshire looked back at their time in Cardiff.

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