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Thursday, 13 September 2018

BBC News

• Call to spend £1.4bn M4 relief road cash on public transportA relief road would not cut congestion and is an old solution to the problem, a report says.
• Landslip on A9 at Helmsdale 'undetected for months'People living in Caithness and Sutherland say the landslip is one example of difficulties with the road in the north Highlands.

The Guardian

• The Guardian view on electric cars: stopped by industry inactionMinisters must accept that the market won’t deliver technological change on its own. They will need to get the state involved to meet environmental and social objectives

Times Online

• Uber aims to cleanse cities of private cars [Subscription]People should no longer own cars in cities because of the amount of road space taken up by largely empty vehicles, the new British head of Uber says.
• Ancient woods threatened by £4bn road link [Subscription]A £4 billion road project between Oxford and Cambridge could damage dozens of wildlife sites and ancient woodland, conservationists have said.