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Saturday, 12 September 2020

Financial Times

• Tesla reversal tests faith in Elon Musk’s ‘business miracle’Electric carmaker’s retail fan base remain defiant in face of biggest one-day drop

The Guardian

• Florida accused of push for 'roads to nowhere' under cover of pandemicCritics say the ‘m-cores’ project of 330 miles of toll roads, estimated to cost $26.4bn, is not needed and will destroy fragile ecosystemsOpponents of Florida’s largest highway construction project in decades say officials are exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to advance three new unwanted toll roads that would destroy more than 50,000 acres of rural landscape and pave hundreds of miles through ecologically fragile wetlands and wildlife corridors.A diverse coalition of opposition groups fighting the state’s so-called m-cores project insists the 330 miles of new highways planned for south-wes...

Times Online

• Motorway speed limit of 60mph to cut pollution [Subscription]The motorway speed limit will be cut to 60mph on parts of the network to reduce emissions, The Times has learnt.
• It’s electrifying: gas-guzzler £500,000 electric Rolls-Royce Phantom V turns green [Subscription]When John Lennon unveiled his Rolls-Royce Phantom V in a psychedelic yellow paint job in 1967, he was confronted by an elderly woman who screamed: “You swine! How dare you do that to a Rolls-Royce!”

Mail Online

• Motorway speed limit will be cut to 60mph to reduce emissions in badly-polluted areasThe trial project will be implemented on the M6 between junctions 6 and 7 near Birmingham; the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 at Oldbury; the M1 between junctions 33 and 34 and the M602 between junctions 1 to three near Eccles.
• Motorists who mistakenly stray into bus lanes will avoid fines for a first-time offenceMotorists who drive in bus lanes will avoid fines for a first-time offence under a major overhaul of traffic laws, the Daily Mail has discovered.

This is Money

• UK's first electric car forecourt in Essex nears completionThe first forecourt is currently in construction at a 2.5-acre site adjacent to Great Notley, just off the A131, with links to Stansted Airport, Chelmsford, Colchester and the M11 motorway.

Bristol Live

• Bristol's electric scooter boom - the law and the trial schemesThey have become the latest post-lockdown way of getting around

The York Press

• Warning to drivers as police launch crackdown in North Yorkshire DRIVERS are being reminded to check their vehicle is roadworthy ahead of a large-scale roads policing operation across North Yorkshire’s busiest routes.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Driverless vehicle centre set for nodA driverless vehicle company looks set to get the nod to create a testing centre on the site of Dudley Hippodrome, with the council leader declaring he is

Cambridge News

• Major disruption on A1 and A428 as Highways announce months of closuresThere will be four phases of roadworks on the A1 and A428 between now and November

Reading Evening Post

• Diversion routes and times as M4 closed again this weekendDrivers face long diversions as entire carriageways are closed for essential works
• Update on cycle lane that will reduce major road to two lanesThe controversial plan aims to support social distancing in the town

Other Regional Press

• Roads police will stop cars as 6 month lockdown MOT suspension endsPolice will be on the lookout across North Yorkshire’s busiest routes as part of a large-scale operation
• Plan for 20mph limit on every residential street in Weymouth A 20MPH speed limit could be introduced on all residential roads in Weymouth in a bid to slash accident numbers, under a new motion proposed by Weymouth Town Council, writes Michael Taylor.
• £5m Coventry Ring Road works to start in NovemberFunding for the scheme has been approved

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Yodel announces plans for long-term strategic investment in new Northern super-hubYodel, the UK’s leading independent parcel carrier, has announced plans for a long-term strategic investment in a new Northern super-hub to support the company’s growth.  The investment, which aims to protect all existing jobs while also creating new job opportunities for the wider region, will see a five-year transition from the existing Shaw hub. The upgrade is in response to growing parcel volumes, triggered by a series of new client wins and the dramatic increase in consumer demand for online retail, which has been turbo charged during the last four months as the Covid-19...