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Monday, 21 February 2022

BBC News

• Rotherham Central rail station shut over flooding fearsA major rail station in South Yorkshire has been closed over fears the tracks could be submerged by flood water.
• Lufthansa and Swiss Air to suspend flights to Ukraine capitalThe German airline will also halt services to Odessa as fears grow over a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Financial Times

• New chair insists Maersk has learnt from past mistakesShipping giant is using bumper profits from high freight rates on a logistics shopping spree

Times Online

• Air travellers face huge rise in faresHowever, he believes that the additional costs are unlikely to deter passengers who have been unable to travel for two years. Travel agents, tour operators and airlines have reported huge “pent-up demand” that has driven bookings.

City AM

• Brits told to stay at home and commuters urged not to travel today as storm Franklin reaches the UKBrits are urged to stay at home while train operators have warned customers to “avoid travel if possible” today as services are expected to be paralysed by gale-force winds and lashing rain.
• Government should have allowed airlines to collapse, according to new reportThe government should have allowed airlines to collapse during the Covid-19 crisis to improve the long-term performance of the travel sector, according to a new report published today. The wave of taxpayer money drilled into airlines to ensure they survived the sharp drop off in passenger volumes has made the sector more imbalanced

Mail Online

• Motorists face £1,000-a-year 'poll tax on wheels' for driving to workA Daily Mail audit found 'workplace parking levies' are being considered in more than a dozen towns and cities in England to cut down on congestion while boosting finances for public transport projects.

Birmingham Post

• Luxury car maker Aston Martin creating more than 100 jobs at its South Wales factoryThe roles will support production of its new SUV DBX707 model

London Evening Standard

• Passengers told to ’avoid travel’ by train as storms paralyse networksNational Rail has warned passengers to expect ’major disruption’ to routes ’across most of Great Britain’ including cancellations

The York Press

• New cycle lanes: "But where will parked cars go?" - lettersNew cycle lanes: but where will parked cars go?

Wales Online

• New rail line planned for central CardiffThe link will go across Callaghan Square and serve Butetown, Capital Quarter and Atlantic Wharf

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Rail services in and out of Leeds blocked due to flooding on the line as station faces mass delaysFlooding on the line at Leeds station is causing mass delays to services in and out of the city, according to Northern Rail.

Leeds Live

• Leeds station flooding as all lines blocked and passengers stranded after boat crashes into bridgePassengers on trains coming in and out of Leeds have been left stranded after flooding caused by Storm Franklin

Other Regional Press

• Translink boss says Belfast Transport Hub will 'create a gateway' to NI"There is a lot of work to do over the next three to four years but we will certainly see real progress on the site now and we are very committed to those time scales"
• West Fife village transport links should be a "priority", says council candidateA CALL has been made to tackle "wholly unacceptable" transport links between West Fife villages and major transport links.
• Passengers urged not to travel on Weymouth-Waterloo lineFollowing a series of further incidents caused by high winds on Sunday evening, Weymouth-Waterloo operator South Western Railway is urging customers not to travel today.
• Coventry gets new machine that can fix 700 potholes a monthCoventry City Council purchased the PotholePro to improve roads across the city

New Civil Engineer

• Almost 1,000 invoices were paid late by HS2 last yearFigures obtained by NCE via a freedom of information request show that in the 12 months from 1 January to 31 December 2021, the company paid 956 invoices late - 8% of its total invoices paid.

Rail Advent

• York Station Front improvement work beginsThe first stage of work to improve the gateway to and from York’s famous railway station is now taking place on Queen Street.
• London North Eastern Railway reveals new international website.The new LNER website coincides with the lifting of pre-departure testing and quarantine rules for vaccinated people arriving into England and Scotland earlier this month.

Other News Sources

• 'Why all the secrecy?' Councillor calls on Kenilworth's MP to be more transparent about HS2 meetingsA Kenilworth councillor is asking for more transparency from the town's MP over meetings with HS2 ltd.