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Ban on petrol and diesel cars could be accelerated [subscription]
A ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars could be brought forward by five years to accelerate the take-up of electric vehicles, according to the transport secretary.
Government takes the first steps in a bus revolution
New low-fare, high-frequency ‘Superbus’ networks, Britain’s first all-electric bus town, better information for passengers, and contactless payment on every city bus have been announced by the Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, in a major package of new measures to boost buses. The package, worth Ł220 million in the first year, will see many cuts to services reversed. It will create ‘express lanes’ for buses in the West Midlands and elsewhere. It will invest in new ways of providing more frequent public transport in the countryside and other places where con...
Tuesday, 01 October 2019
BBC News
- VW rejects judge's plea to settle German diesel caseGermany's first mass legal action begins as 450,000 owners of diesel cars take on the company.
The Guardian
- Bloodhound car aiming for land speed record has final UK testsVehicle is to be shipped to South Africa – where goal is to reach speed of 1,000mphA sleek machine that looks like a mash-up between a grandprix car, a fighter plane and a spaceship has undergone a final, ear-splitting test in the UK before being shipped to a desert in South Africa where it may eventually reach a speed of 1,000mph.Over the past six months the Bloodhound LSR has taken shape in a workshop on a college campus in Gloucestershire and on Monday a “dry crank test” was carried out in which the car was powered up to confirm that the engine and systems had been correctly installed. Cont...
The Scotsman
- Tailgating drives 85 per cent of motorists to distraction, new research findsTailgating by other drivers is the behaviour that annoys motorists most on the roads, according to new research.
Times Online
- Uber passengers warned to check for cyclists as ‘car dooring’ accidents rise [subscription]Uber minicab passengers will be instructed on safely leaving the vehicle amid concerns over a spike in the number of cyclists injured in “car dooring” incidents.
- Ban on petrol and diesel cars could be accelerated [subscription]A ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars could be brought forward by five years to accelerate the take-up of electric vehicles, according to the transport secretary.
- Waymo self-driving cars moving too slowly, analysts say [subscription]Self-driving cars may be the future of transport but their progress is taking so long that analysts at Morgan Stanley have just slashed the valuation of Waymo, the autonomous unit owned by Google.
- Biofuels pledge is ‘wrong way to tackle climate change’ [subscription]The government’s pledge to increase the amount of biofuels that petrol stations must sell is not a sound environmental policy, a member of the Green Party has claimed.
Cambridge News
- Why Cambridge's taxi drivers think they're being discriminated againstA new policy change has been given the green light
East Anglian Daily Times
- Funding pledged to help improve A12Long promised upgrades to the A12 could become a reality after fresh funding was pledged by the Department for Transport.
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