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Tuesday, 01 February 2022

BBC News

• Calls for green priorities in East Anglia transport planCampaigners from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex have signed a joint statement calling for greener priorities in a transport plan for the next 30 years.
• Anglesey: Villagers' worry at being cut off by flooded roadResidents in two villages are concerned at the number of times a main road is flooding.
• Long-awaited A77 Maybole bypass officially opensLocals were the first to drive on the new carriageway which promises to take HGVs away from the town centre.
• Airlines may pay out for one-hour UK flight delaysUnder new plans, travellers could claim for delays of more than an hour, down from three hours currently.
• Global chip shortage: Jaguar Land Rover loses £9mThe UK-based car maker warned that it expects the chip shortage to continue throughout this year.
• Is this the summer that travel gets back to normal?Travel bosses predict a bounce back for business this summer but challenges to recruit enough staff remain.

Financial Times

• WTO chief warns of continued bottlenecks in global supply chainsCovid restrictions and logistics problems hit poorer countries and smaller businesses, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
• Relations between airlines and airports nosedive as pandemic savages profitsOnce united front between two groups dissolves as disruption drags on and losses mount
• Ryanair: near-term uncertainty remainsAny nervous fog should soon lift, and the discount airline offers investors important comforts
• Air France-KLM hobbled by state aid while rivals pounce on deals Market opportunities put group under mounting pressure to repay pandemic bailouts quickly

The Independent

• Transport workers march to Bute House in ticket office closure protestMembers of the RMT trade union also voiced their opposition to Project Neptune.

Times Online

• Passengers face years of facemasks on flightsMasks on flights will be one of the last coronavirus restrictions to be dropped globally and could remain policy for years, experts have said.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Welsh trains' £40m refurb gives passengers USB charging points and new toilet seatsWork to refurbish Transport for Wales’ fleet of long-distance trains has been completed

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Drop-off parking fees at Aberdeen Airport to be increased from tomorrowAberdeen International Airport has decided to increase drop-off parking fees from tomorrow.

Other Regional Press

• Fife Circle: Scottish Government transport review reveals Kingdom on track for electric trainsFIFE looks set to be on track for electric trains after the proposal was included in Transport Scotland's latest Strategic Projects Review.
• Council welcomes reduced bus fare initiatives in boost to low carbon travel  Cornwall Council has welcomed the first in a series of low fare initiatives to make bus travel cheaper, easier and more attractive to new passengers.  

New Civil Engineer

• New Liverpool station being developed on site of former St James StationThe Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is in the early stages of developing plans for a new station to replace St James Station, which closed in 1917 as a cost-cutting measure in the war effort.
• Smart motorways | Shapps vows to ’raise the bar’ after Keller boss releases crash footageTransport secretary Grant Shapps has reassured Keller director Derek Taylor that the government is committed to improving the safety of smart motorways.

Railnews

• Rail workers demonstrate over COP26 'betrayal' MONDAY BRIEFING: Rail workers protest at COP26 'betrayal' ++ Flood closes Norfolk line ++ Angel Trains buys infrastructure company ++

The Business Desk

• Angel Trains swoops in to snap up rail services providerReadypower Group, the rail operated asset and infrastructure services provider which has a training centre in Nottingham, has been sold to Angel Trains.

Other News Sources

• Transport activists concerned that new relief road could derail revival of old Northampton railway lineThe group believe restoring old rail lines could ease congestion and boost Northampton as a 'strategic' hub
• Clydebank train station: West Dunbartonshire Council opposes ticket office closure plansPLANS to close the ticket office at Clydebank railway station - and to slash opening hours at other facilities across West Dunbartonshire - have been unanimously opposed by councillors.
• E-bikes banned from Caledonian Sleeper trains after risk assessmentCaledonian Sleeper, the overnight rail service between London and Scotland, has banned e-bikes from its trains. The franchise has elaborated little on its reasoning beyond citing “safety reasons”.