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New UK rail travel platform promises to plant a tree for every booking
A new train ticketing platform launching today is promising to plant a tree for every booking, which it hopes will appeal to passengers who care about climate change. Trainhugger says it will use 50p out of each £1.50 booking fee to pay for a young tree, in partnership with the Royal Forestry Society and Royal Scottish Forestry Society.
New six-year contract for Chiltern Railways
Chiltern Railways has committed to expanding trials converting diesel trains to diesel-battery hybrids.
North Shropshire by-election: Boris Johnson makes transport pledge during Oswestry visit
Boris Johnson has said improving Shropshire's transport infrastructure is central to his "levelling up" agenda during a visit to the county.
TfGM looks beyond transport for travel reduction win-wins
Working on a cross-sector basis beyond the traditional boundaries of the transport sector holds the potential to bring changes that help meet climate change and decarbonisation objectives, Stuart Blackadder, innovation strategy officer from Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) told the Summit.
Saturday, 04 December 2021
BBC News
- HS2: Huge machine begins tunnelling under ancient woodThe tunnel boring machine will carve a mile long tunnel under a Warwickshire woodland.
- Night Tube: Further strikes this weekendDrivers will walk out for eight hours on Friday and Saturday on the Central and Victoria lines.
- Covid-19: Dozens of maskless London Underground passengers finedOver 150 people are fined for not wearing masks on London's transport network.
The Guardian
- New UK rail travel platform promises to plant a tree for every bookingA new train ticketing platform launching today is promising to plant a tree for every booking, which it hopes will appeal to passengers who care about climate change. Trainhugger says it will use 50p out of each £1.50 booking fee to pay for a young tree, in partnership with the Royal Forestry Society and Royal Scottish Forestry Society.
The Independent
- New six-year contract for Chiltern RailwaysChiltern Railways has committed to expanding trials converting diesel trains to diesel-battery hybrids.
Times Online
- Mighty machines inching HS2 ahead [subscription]Tunnels to carry trains at 200mph are slowly but surely being gouged out below the Chilterns
Mail Online
- One in five train passengers are still refusing to wear Covid masks despite risk of £200 fine, Network Rail revealsOne in five passengers at major railway stations are still refusing to wear Covid masks, according to Network Rail - despite the risk of a £200 fine for failure to comply with the rules on face coverings.
Other Regional Press
- New six-year contract for Chiltern RailwaysChiltern Railways has been awarded a new six-year contract that includes commitments on decarbonising trains. The Arriva-owned company said it has reached an agreement with the Department for Transport (DfT) to continue running trains between London Marylebone and Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and the West Midlands.
- North Shropshire by-election: Boris Johnson makes transport pledge during Oswestry visitBoris Johnson has said improving Shropshire's transport infrastructure is central to his "levelling up" agenda during a visit to the county.
Construction News
- Regulator needed to ‘remove the politics’ from transport fundingThe construction industry should push for a new independent regulator to take politics out of public transport-scheme funding, according to a senior Arcadis director.
Transportxtra
- TfGM looks beyond transport for travel reduction win-winsWorking on a cross-sector basis beyond the traditional boundaries of the transport sector holds the potential to bring changes that help meet climate change and decarbonisation objectives, Stuart Blackadder, innovation strategy officer from Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) told the Summit.
- ‘Transport sector must do a better job of recruiting and retaining women’More than two-thirds of women in transport have experienced discriminatory behaviour in the workplace, according to a survey.
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