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The Guardian view on Heathrow expansion: stop it to save the planet
Aviation efficiency gains and innovation will not be enough to limit emissions growth. Demand for air travel needs to be damped
Bus companies 'putting public at risk with “dangerous” long hours for drivers'
MPs are being urged to back a private members bill capping drivers’ hours. Bus companies are putting the public at risk with “dangerously long” hours for drivers, say union chiefs.
Monday, 24 June 2019
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- Rail services improve after remedial noticeMore trains are running on time and fewer services are being cancelled, ScotRail claims.
The Guardian
- Public to have say on renaming White Hart Lane station Tottenham HotspurExclusive: FoI request reveals proposal was at advanced stage after lobbying by Tottenham Hotspur football club
Times Online
- Mind the soot! Tube ride to the past [Subscription]There is nothing like nostalgia to mask the weeping eyes and soothe the rasping throat caused by soot and sulphur. For the Victorians, a journey on the London Underground — the only subterranean railway in the world ever to use steam locomotives — meant a choking, cinder-filled vision of Hell.
- East is back on track, says ScotRail [Subscription]Train cancellations in the east are at their lowest level in a year thanks to a driver and conductor training programme, ScotRail has said. There had been complaints of cancellations and overcrowding on services in Fife and the Scottish Borders, and Nicola Sturgeon had called the performance unacceptable.
City AM
- Activist investor Coast Capital rails against First franchise bidAn activist investor vying to shake up First Group has warned that it will pull out of a contract to run one of the UK’s leading rail franchises if it succeeds in toppling the firm’s management at a showdown on Tuesday.
Bristol Live
- Bristol Temple Meads labelled 'Poundland' of nation's stations as concerns raised over revampA council leader has raised alarms over the handling of a multi-million pound revamp of Bristol Temple Meads, as transport campaigners brandished it the “Poundland” of train stations.
Other Regional Press
- New short stay car park at Oxford station could open in JulyPARKING at Oxford Rail Station will become easier when new facilities are finally finished next month - two years behind schedule.
- ScotRail: Improvement plan ‘showing results’And in Fife, where fed up passengers have faced months of delays, cancellations and overcrowded trains, the operator said things were also looking up.
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- More women in engineering ‘an absolute necessity’ for future of transport The government calls on more women to consider engineering careers, highlighting the opportunities provided by major infrastructure projects like HS2.
- Major investment and new brand identity for East Midlands Railway Abellio is preparing to start operating East Midlands Railway in August and has been briefing its plans to invest £600 million on brand new bi-mode intercity trains and faster, modern, refurbished trains across the East Midlands to stakeholders including East Midlands Councils, Transport for the East Midlands, Community Rail Partnerships and rail user groups.
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