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Friday, 28 April 2023

BBC News

• Menai Bridge: Safety risks spotted as early as 1988A report says recommendations to replace parts of the Menai suspension bridge were made decades ago.
• Rail strike on 13 May, day of Eurovision finalThe RMT is to strike after talks in long-running pay dispute break down again.

The Herald

• A new station is taking shape. Could it be a model for the future?The station is Leven in Fife, which effectively disappeared off the face of the earth in the 1960s when Beeching wielded his axe and cut huge swathes of the British rail network. It’s meant that for the last 50 years or so, the train journey through places like Leven and Elie and Pittenweem has lived only in the minds of septuagenarian and octogenarian Scots.

The Independent

• Labour pledges to fix ’broken’ bus systemThe party has committed to handing more control of routes and fares to local communities

City AM

• OPEC chief warns IEA not to undermine oil investment as war of words escalates OPEC's war of words with the International Energy Agency entered another heated chapter today amid concerns over oil demand. The post OPEC chief warns IEA not to undermine oil investment as war of words escalates appeared first on CityAM.

The Mirror

• Labour pledges biggest bus service overhaul in a generation after Tory 'managed decline'In an interview with The Mirror, shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said she and her colleagues are 'chomping at the bit' to get into Government and address failures piling misery on passengers

Birmingham Post

• Jet2 to invest in plant which will turn black bin bags into fuelThe plant is expected to be operational in 2027

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• King's Coronation: Uber offer royal horse drawn carriage taxiUber's Coronation Carriage will be in operation between May 3 and May 5 leading up to King Charles III's coronation

Bristol Live

• Bristol Airport slashes parking fee to £5 for Blue Badge holdersThe changes come into force next week
• Lib Dems plan to keep car parks free and bring buses under public control if they take over South Gloucestershire CouncilVoters will head to the polls on Thursday, May 4, to decide which political party should run the council

London Evening Standard

• New details about London’s Superloop bus route revealedew details about the Superloop bus services being planned for the suburbs were revealed on Friday – as 10 central London routes were altered or axed.

Chester Standard

• Go-ahead for £7.5m Chester Railway Station revampWorks to improve the rundown Grade II* listed station form part of the long-term 'Gateway' vision for the area

Other Regional Press

• CalMac Charter of MV Alfred Branded ’Scandalous’ by RMTIt won’t be plain sailing ahead for CalMac’s deal to use Pentland Ferries MV Alfred as the trade union, RMT, have raised concerns about its safety record as the vessel begins its sea trials on the west coast routes. The RMT has also suggested that this is a slide into privatisation.

New Civil Engineer

• Network Rail made £850M less than it expected to last yearNetwork Rail has made £850M less than it projected to over the 2022/2023 financial year, NCE can reveal.
• HS2 trials innovative dual-fuelled piling rig that reduces fuel consumption and carbon emissionsHS2 Ltd has broken new ground in terms of innovation having installed the world’s first deep piles using a hydrogen dual-fuel rig.

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• Stagecoach high-spec Enviro400 fleet makes 555 debutStagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire has launched a flagship fleet of nine new Alexander Dennis Enviro400 double-deckers onto its high-profile route 555 in the Lake District.
• Coach zero-emission route ’likely to align with HGV’There is a growing likelihood that the zero-emission trajectory for coach will align with that in HGVs, two figures active in early work around the transition agreed at the Confederation of Passenger Transport UK Bus and Coach Conference in late March.
• Council to lobby Holyrood on funding as it rescues local servicesWest Lothian Council, which this week agreed subsidies for two doomed local bus services, will write to Scottish Transport Minister Kevin Stewart to ask him to reinstate funding for buses.
• RHA hands letter to Number 10 calling for better facilitiesRHA delivered an open letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday pressing for better roadside facilities for coach and lorry drivers.
• Wrightbus names Jean-Marc Gales as new CEOJean-Marc Gales has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ballymena-based bus manufacturer Wrightbus.
• Stagecoach East Midlands honours King’s coronation with special busesStagecoach East Midlands has revealed two specially decorated buses to celebrate the historic Coronation of King Charles III.

Other News Sources

• South Wales railway line prepares to close for planned worksThe railway linking Cardiff and the Rhondda Valley is to close for up to eight months in order to undergo significant upgrades.