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Thursday, 11 June 2020

The Herald

• Coronavirus: Car trips up by a third despite Sturgeon threat to driversSCOTS are continuing to ignore Government pleas to curb their driving as the coronavirus lockdown is eased, with car use elevated up for a second week.

Times Online

• Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port car factory closed till September [Subscription]More than a thousand workers at the Vauxhall factory at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire will not return to work until September.
• Elon Musk ready to mass produce Tesla Semi electric trucks [Subscription]Elon Musk, the West Coast entrepreneur who is shaking up the electric car market, has declared that it is time to do the same for the lorry.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Update on roadworks at one of Newcastle’s busiest junctionsCompletion of the controversial project to reduce congestion around the bottleneck junction had already been pushed back from early 2020 to September before the Covid-19 pandemic hit

Cambridge News

• Highways England announce update on A428 improvement plansOnce complete, the multi-million pound scheme will save commuters up to an hour and a half on their journeys each week

Other Regional Press

• 240 lorries will go through village every dayA total of 240 lorries will head through a village every day causing a "severe" impact on the road network after a council judgement.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• UK new car sales down -89.0% in May as ‘click and collect’ sparks hope ahead of showroom re-openingUK new car registrations fell -89.0% in May, according to figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Some 20,247 cars were registered in the month, as ‘click and collect’ services, allowed from mid-month, saw some movement in the market. However, with 163,477 fewer registrations than in the same month last year, the performance still marked the lowest May since 1952. Private buyers accounted for the lion’s share of registrations at 63.7% of the market, equivalent to 12,900 units, while 6,638 cars went to fleets. There were severe declines acro...
• Liverpool and Hull to trial new pedestrian crossing designsLiverpool City Council has been awarded £196,253 by the Road Safety Trust to deliver an innovative project intended to reduce the number of pedestrians who are killed and injured on their roads every year.   The project is being delivered in partnership with Hull City Council, their respective Road Safety Partnerships, leading behavioural science company So-Mo and data analysis company Agilysis.    Liverpool and Hull have some of the highest rates of adult residents injured as pedestrians in the UK – Liverpool at 48 resident pedestrian casualties per 100,000 people a...