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Monday, 27 June 2022

Government

• Minister questioned on Government’s National Bus StrategyThe Government’s National Bus Strategy for improved bus services in England outside London puts a premium on greater cooperation between bus operators and local councils to use new and existing funding to improve services for passengers.

BBC News

• Leicester's St Margaret's bus station opens to publicA new £14.3m bus station is due to open to passengers in Leicester. Work on St Margaret's bus station, in Gravel Street, has been ongoing for 18 months.
• Cycling: TfL to begin issuing fines to drivers in cycle lanesNew powers will allow TfL to enforce infringements in a similar way to bus lanes.
• Bexleyheath sinkhole to take up to six weeks to repairThe road's collapse caused

Financial Times

• All change for the future of urban transportPlanners must balance post-Covid change, environmental concerns and new technology
• ‘Like flying with a baby’: Southwest Airlines rides turbulent oil marketHedging strategy run by four-person team reaps $1.2bn in savings as jet fuel tops $4 a gallon

The Guardian

• Boris Johnson backs plans to close ticket offices as fresh rail strike talks loomRMT mulls future dates for industrial action as PM says it can’t be ‘business as usual’ on the railways
• Union accuses Labour of ‘direct attack’ on airline staff by not backing their pay demandComments by shadow minister David Lammy aimed at showing party is fit for government provoke angry response from Unite bossDavid Lammy sparked a fresh row with a key trade union on Sunday by saying Labour should categorically refuse to back demands from airline workers for a pay rise of about 10%.Unite – which says staff are just asking to reverse a pay cut that occurred during the pandemic – accused the shadow foreign secretary of launching a “direct attackâ€� on the workers it represents. The general secretary, Sharon Graham, said his comments were a “new lowâ€� for Labour, which could not be r...

City AM

• Negotiation has failed: the defence Keir should have made for rail strikesThe rail strikes have finished, for the moment, and we can return to normal after the disruption. But we are promised a “summer of discontent”, with teachers and barristers next up to withdraw their labour. Disruption in public-facing services seems to be emerging as 2022’s leitmotif.
• Khan moves toward running London Tube on 100 per cent renewable electricitySadiq Khan will today begin the London Underground's transition to being carbon neutral as he opens London Climate Action Week. The mayor of London will today launch a Power Purchase Agreement, with the first tender spent on ensuring “10 per cent of TfL's required electricity from renewable energy sources” along with “new build assets”.

The Mirror

• Flying hotel that 'never lands' could see 5,000 guests soar through the skies in luxuryThe AI-piloted Sky Cruise would have 20 engines powered by nuclear fusion and would never need to land on Earth, according to an ambitious new design that has just been unveiled

Birmingham Post

• HS2 reveals Washwood Heath depot designsPlanned facility in Birmingham will be used for storage, cleaning and maintenance of the new high-speed trains
• Rolls-Royce develops tech for electric flights across longer routesThe aerospace giant said it would mean more passengers will be able to travel further on low-to-net-zero emissions aircraft

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Books explore peak and final years of Bradford trolleybusesIT was 50 years ago that Bradford’s last trolleybus left the city centre.
• Up to 62 bus routes could be at risk when funding ends in OctoberUP to 62 bus routes in West Yorkshire could be scrapped or drastically reduced later this year when Government funding ends.

Other Regional Press

• Matlock passengers stranded as bus company cuts Derby and Buxton servicesMatlock is set to lose vital transport connections next month after one of the town’s bus operators announced drastic cuts to its services.
• Hundreds of new jobs to be created at new HS2 West Midlands hubAround 550 new jobs will be created at the control centre and maintenance facility
• 'The press are causing the issues' at Birmingham Airport, not staff shortagesBirmingham Airport tweeted in agreement with claims that the press are causing the delays, despite the hub admitting it is understaffed

Construction Enquirer

• Plans in for Cambridge North major mixed-use schemeThe Chesterton Partnership has submitted plans for a major mixed-use scheme on former railway sidings next to Cambridge North Railway Station.

New Civil Engineer

• HS2’s precast factory takes shape in WarwickshireHS2’s civils partner BBV (Balfour Beatty Vinci JV) has revealed the first images from its 550,000m2 construction compound in Kingsbury, Warwickshire, where concrete segments for the Delta Junction near Birmingham will be manufactured.

Other News Sources

• Network Rail launches tenders for £1.28bn capital works frameworksNetwork Rail has published contract notices for three frameworks for its North West & Central region, worth £1.28bn in total, which include structural and geotechnical engineering lots.
• London to Brighton Electric Vehicle Rally sees success this weekendSEVENTY different electric vehicles lined the seafront yesterday as the London to Brighton rally arrived at the coast.