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Sunday, 26 May 2019

BBC News

• Charity Sustrans calls for city workplace parking taxSustrans Cymru says councils could tax firms for staff spaces to raise money for public transport.

Times Online

• Tesla boss Elon Musk is running out of road now is rivals have woken up [Subscription]The owner of Tesla may be left on the pavement as the automotive giants rev up their ranges of electric vehicles
• National Grid has blown a fuse on electric cars - Letters [subscription]I noted your article (“Drivers plugging into an electric future will need a lot of chargers”, May 12) on the problems with the proposed electrification of the country’s cars and vans. Unfortunately, the problems are much worse than you made them out to be, and they are exacerbated by institutionalised lying by National Grid.
• Park Scottish levy scheme now, it’s a non-starter [subscription]At the risk of sounding like a poor girl’s Jeremy Clarkson, the newly proposed workplace parking levy, whereby tens of thousands of Scots may end up having to pay hundreds of pounds a year extra to get to their place of work, is third-form economics.

Other Regional Press

• Overcrowded trains have Hereford commuters fumingRAIL commuters from Hereford are suffering from fewer carriages on the route to Birmingham and feel safety is being compromised because of overcrowding.
• Fight congestion charge and bring in free public transport, says ex-Coventry MP NellistCOVENTRY council should fight an unfair congestion charge for motorists and bring in free public transport instead, says former city MP Dave Nellist.