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Monday, 30 May 2022

BBC News

• Dublin Airport apologises after passengers miss flights due to queuesA passenger from County Down describes
• RideLondon-Essex: Thousands of cyclists take part in charity eventThe mass-participation event got halted due to an incident, and tacks were also left on the road.
• Hundreds of ScotRail Sunday services cancelledThe rail operator advised people to
• Drivers warned of Platinum Jubilee traffic delaysThe RAC estimates 19.5 million road trips over the break with traffic likely to be worst on Friday.

The Guardian

• The Guardian view on the future of rail: managed decline is no way forwardt some point this summer, a popular vote will help determine the location of the future headquarters of Great British Railways (GBR). Unveiled with boosterish enthusiasm last year by the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, this new public body will supersede Network Rail, overseeing both services and infrastructure. Wherever GBR is eventually based – candidate hosts include historic train towns such as Crewe and Darlington – it will have its work cut out.
• More than 1m trips made on central section of Elizabeth lineMore than 1m journeys have been made on the central section of London’s Elizabeth line in the first five days of its opening. Across the entire railway – which spans from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east – more than 2m trips have been made, Transport for London said.

The Telegraph

• Keir Starmer is not on the side of workers, says RMT chiefMick Lynch attacks Labour leader over a lack of support as he suggests other unions are considering their ties to the party

Times Online

• Rail strike to last ‘a very, very long time’, says union baron Mick Lynch [subscription]The leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union has warned that strikes set to cripple Britain’s railways could last for a “very, very long time”.
• 300 ScotRail trains hit the buffers in pay row [subscription]More than 300 trains were cancelled in Scotland yesterday because of a shortage of drivers.

City AM

• Signs of recovery in aviation as order book increases againORDERS for commercial aircraft were their highest in four years in the month of April, new data released today has revealed. More than 130 airplanes were ordered in April, hitting a high not seen since well before the pandemic. There is now a backlog of some 13,000 aircraft that have been ordered
• Great transport means opportunities – we just need to learn how to fund itIt will not have escaped your notice that Transport for London opened a new part of the network last week. The Elizabeth line, which began life as Crossrail in a 1974 rail report, currently runs in three separate stages across the capital. It will eventually extend from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield

Daily Record

• Scotrail cancels hundreds of train services on Sunday as rail chaos continuesMore than 300 services were listed as 'cancelled' by Scotrail's official journey tracking website early on May 29.

i News

• Rail strikes: Union warns 2022 RMT walkout could go on ‘for a very, very long time’ as pay dispute continuesRMT leader Mick Lynch offers bleak assessment of heading off industrial action, saying: ‘There is no sign at the moment that anybody is backing down on their side of the table’

Mail Online

• When even rail chiefs are working from home, what folly to spend tens of billions on HS2Well, this is embarrassing. While telling the country in February that 'encouraging businesses and commuters to take the train will boost the economy, helping to get the country back on track', the Rail Delivery Group is simultaneously informing its own staff: 'All we ask is that you do a minimum of two days a week in the office, the rest of your time can be working from home.'
• Qantas workers slam Australia's biggest airline: Jobkeeper, EBA, Swissport, Alan JoyceQantas employees say they feel 'disillusioned and hurt' by the airline's string of cost-cutting methods that have seen relationships with loyal staff broken and the once great company tainted.
• Half-term holiday chaos continues as airport customers reveal SEVEN-hour delays and grounded flightsOn Sunday as Bristol airport customers revealed seven-hour delays and devastated passengers at Manchester were grounded on the runway.

Belfast Telegraph

• Local travellers among those hit by ‘mayhem’ at Dublin AirportPassengers from here were yesterday caught up in “shambolic chaosâ€� at Dublin Airport as thousands of people were left queuing for hours and many missed their flights.

Birmingham Post

• Wrightbus signs "significant" deal for 60 hydrogen buses with Cologne operatorThe deal with RVK is the first sale of left-hand drive buses since Jo Bamford bought the company out of administration in 2019

Bolton News

• New cheaper parking introduced for visitors to Bolton town centreDURING the Jubilee celebrations - and beyond - the NCP car parks on Topp Way and Deane Road in Bolton are offering discounted parking.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Passengers need 'bread and butter' sorting out before 'cake and cream'PLANS to improve bus services at a time when some routes are being scrapped have been compared to offering “cake and creamâ€� when the focus should be on providing “bread and butter.â€�

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Manchester Airport passengers told by text their holiday is cancelled after nightmare 'eight-hour' waitHolidaymakers looking to get away for half-term said it was 'utter chaos' as passengers received the news

Manchester Evening News

• Train passengers continue to be hit by strikes as services in Manchester reducedTransPennine Express warned that the few services still running will be 'extremely busy'
• Hectic weekend at Manchester Airport amid reports of crying kids, huge queues, empty vending machines, closed restaurants and passengers stuck on planes for hoursManchester Airport bosses have apologised for the disruption - and said that delays at check-in and baggage reclaim were the responsibility of airlines and ground handling firms, which run their own services

Other Regional Press

• New bus service links rail, rural communities and top North Devon tourist spotsThe 309/310 service, which is subsidised by Devon County Council, is a vital public transport link into Barnstaple from Lynmouth, Lynton, Parracombe and Bratton Fleming
• Council transport expert's fears over 200-home estateA KCC transportation team leader is among those raising concerns over plans for a new housing estate on prime farmland.

C.N.N.

• Faster, cleaner, greener: What lies ahead for the world's railwaysFaster, cleaner, greener and packed with advanced technology; rail is the only transport mode currently well placed to provide the backbone of our future mobility needs.

New Civil Engineer

• Hope Valley railway line’s delayed £145M upgrade finally beginsGround-breaking work on the delayed £145M rail reliability upgrade on the Hope Valley line between Manchester and Sheffield started yesterday.
• Crossrail | TfL boss gives Bond Street station opening updateThe Elizabeth line’s delayed Bond Street station will open in the autumn, concurrent with the initiation of services running the full length from Shenfield to Reading, Transport for London (TfL) commissioner Andy Byford has revealed.
• National Highways boss gears up for period of ‘rapid change’ for roadsNational Highways chief executive Nick Harris is gearing up for a period of "very rapid change" for the road network.

Rail Business Daily

• Elizabeth line clocks more than one million passenger journeys in first weekFollowing an opening day full of celebrations, more than one million passengers have used the new Elizabeth line in its first five days.
• Roads and Transport Authority establishes innovation centre at University of Birmingham DubaiDubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced the establishment of an innovation, research and development centre at University of Birmingham Dubai campus.

Transport Infrastructure News

• Environmental concerns aired over new aviation strategyAirport expansion plans have been given a fresh boost by Government, with the publication of a new strategy. The 10 point ‘Flightpath to the Future’ document includes a commitment to “support growth in airport capacity where it is justified” in order to boost connectivity and level up the UK.

Other News Sources

• Top 5 Reasons Hydrogen Has a Place in the Future of RailCummins Inc. is the only company in the world powering hydrogen trains in commercial operation. In 2016, Cummins partnered with customer Alstom, a French railway equipment manufacturer, to engineer, supply, and integrate the hydrogen fuel cell solution in its Coradia iLint trains.