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Saturday, 28 September 2019

Times Online

• Doctors demand clean air act to stop thousands dying early [subscription]Leading doctors are calling on the government to include a clean air bill in October’s Queen’s Speech to save thousands of lives cut short by pollution.

Birmingham Mail

• Parking signs finally detail 'rip off' charges in Birmingham - but not all of themIf you park in Birmingham and use the RingGo app to pay you will end up paying more. New signs now partially explain the costs but they don't reveal all of them, Graham Young reports

Transportxtra

• Newcastle backs down over pollution charge plan for cars [subscription]Councils in Tyne & Wear have dropped plans to charge private cars in its revised proposals for a clean air zone (CAZ) in Newcastle. Last week, Newcastle, North Tyneside and Gateshead councils approved a new plan that means that all private cars will be exempt from a road user charge and also reduced the size of the CAZ.
• Councils press ahead with Oxford workplace levy bid [subscription]Plans for a workplace parking levy (WPL) around Oxford’s ‘eastern arc’ have been unveiled by Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council. The levy would be based on Nottingham’s WPL, which was implemented in 2012 and remains the only scheme of its type in the UK.
• Strong case for WPL, says Leicester’s mayor [subscription]Leicester's elected mayor Peter Soulsby has told LTT that he plans to introduce a workplace parking levy (WPL) in the city during his current four-year term. The Labour mayor said his re-election for a third time in May represents a “green light” to press ahead with his plans for a levy.

Other News Sources

• 'No link' found between closure of Hindhead Tunnel and lorries hitting Farnham railway bridge Wrecclesham Road bridge has been struck 39 times since 2011