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Monday, 25 July 2022

Government

• Infrastructure and Projects Authority annual report 2022The 2022 Annual Report on the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA).

BBC News

• Ballymena: Wrightbus founder Sir William Wright diesSir William Wright founded the Ballymena bus manufacturing firm with his father in 1946.
• Stormont department pays out £2m in public footpath claimsThe highest number of incidents related to injuries on public footpaths reported was in north Belfast.
• Eurotunnel queues: AA says holiday gridlock easingWaiting times at the Eurotunnel terminal are

Financial Times

• Dover delays ease but motorists warned of backlog on other channel routesTroubled Kent port clears backlog but AA says Folkestone is now ‘hotspot of holiday hell’

The Guardian

• Channel travel chaos continues with ‘holiday hell’ at EurotunnelHolidaymakers from the UK hoping to travel to France have endured a third day of disruption as traffic chaos turned the Eurotunnel into a “hotspot of holiday hell”.

The Independent

• Britain has become a rail replacement bus service to nowhereFor every regular rail user, the words “check before you travel” are often heard but less frequently acted on.

The Scotsman

• Crackdown on ‘post-Covid bounce’ in anti-social behaviour on transport urgedA crackdown on anti-social behaviour by football fans and others on trains and buses has been urged by the head of the body which helps co-ordinate 70 per cent of Scotland’s public transport journeys.

The Telegraph

• Railway lines at risk from rising sea levels to be rerouted in Network Rail plan [subscription]Climate Change Committee estimates almost 100 train stations will be at risk from coastal erosion

Times Online

• Baggage chaos at Edinburgh airport ‘could last for months’ [subscription]The luggage crisis at Scotland’s busiest airport will last for months, it has been claimed.

Reuters News

• Near free public transport eases congestion on Germany's roadsUrban traffic congestion eased in the weeks after Germany made public transport almost free, data show, suggesting an experiment by Europe's largest economy to combat its addiction to cars may be having some success.

City AM

• Former airport chair takes aim at Willie WalshThe war of words enveloping the entire aviation industry descended further still this weekend after a former Heathrow chair and City grandee said former British Airways (BA) boss and now trade body chief Willie Walsh had “trashed a great brand and created a company that is a byword for poor service”.

Daily Express

• Dover chaos set to continue for holidaymakers as Port vows ‘operations return to normal’DOVER CHAOS is set to continue for holiday makers despite Port vowing

Bolton News

• Network Rail applies to carry out repair work to Kearsley railway stationPlans have been launched to carry out repair works at the railway bridge by Kearsley's station.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• 'Spades in the ground' for West Yorkshire mass transit scheme by 2028Work on West Yorkshire’s mass transit system, which it’s claimed will “hurtleâ€� the region “into the 21st centuryâ€�, could start by the end of the decade.

Liverpool Echo

• Issues linger below the surface of north Liverpool’s most famous roadThe roadworks saga has finally come to an end but a more worrying reality is still in clear view

Nation. Cymru

• Current infrastructure inadequate for event like Eisteddfod say rail link campaignersWest Wales rail campaigners are pointing to the forthcoming National Eisteddfod in Ceredigion as further evidence for the need for urgent reinstatement of the South Wales to Aberystwyth rail line.

Cambridge News

• Stansted Airport: Brutal reviews from travellers left on Trust PilotSome travellers couldn't resist expressing their opinions with one saying they were 'not a happy bunny'

Other Regional Press

• SNP's bus boast torn apart as local councils will NOT receive extra funding to run local servicesExclusive: The Scottish Government boasted that they had given powers to local council to run bus services but have not supplied any extra funding for them to do this.
• Rail passengers from Cleethorpes 'deserve better' says resort MPCleethorpes MP Martin Vickers has said some train services in North East Lincolnshire are 'not good enough'. He has called on the Department of Transport to consider withdrawing the Cleethorpes to Manchester franchise from rail operator TransPennine Express. Speaking in the House of Commons he outlined, what he described as “an absolutely appalling service” and that his constituents throughout northern Lincolnshire deserve better.

New Civil Engineer

• Five day Devon railway line closure planned for September will maximise benefitsTunnel upgrades, landslide prevention and flood resilience work will be carried out at the same time on a section of West of England rail line during a planned five day closure of the route this autumn.
• Heatwave lays bare how vulnerable our infrastructure is to extreme weatherAs the temperature in parts of the country soared over 40 degrees this week, you are not the only one feeling the heat. The infrastructure all around us – the systems we depend on to travel, for running water, to keep the lights on and to remain comfortable indoors – are all coming under strain. This was perhaps most starkly illustrated by the wrapping of insulating foil around the chains of Hammersmith Bridge to stop it overheating.
• Three options tabled to upgrade North’s ‘most dangerous’ A roadNational Highways has revealed three options to upgrade a section of the A64 near to York. The A64 has long been dubbed the “most dangerous road in the north” due to the regular number of accidents.
• Revealed: £478M underspend on major transport schemesThe government failed to spend almost half a billion pounds of its budget for major transport projects in the last financial year, data has revealed. Figures released by the Department for Transport (DfT) show that its outlay on big infrastructure schemes was £478.3M lower than anticipated in 2021/22.
• East West Rail branded ‘unachievable’ by IPA Later phases of the under-construction East West Rail project “appear unachievable” according to a report from a key government unit.

road.cc

• Transport for London accused of “breaking promises” after funding for cycle training cutHundreds of cycling instructors in the city face losing their jobs following TfL’s decision to suspend funding ‘until further notice’