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Monday, 05 October 2020

BBC News

• Safety checks on roads and rail after heavy overnight rainFlood warnings are in place across parts of the east of Scotland following a night of heavy and persistent rain.
• Ola: London bans Uber rival over safety concernsTransport for London said the firm made more than 1,000 trips made by unlicensed drivers.

Financial Times

• TfL refuses new London licence to car-booking app OlaDecision citing ‘potential public safety consequences’ comes week after Uber wins battle to keep running in capital

The Guardian

• Activists try to stop autobahn being built through German forestDannenröder tree felling will be a catastrophe, say environmental campaignersThousands of climate activists gathered in a stretch of woodland north of Frankfurt on Sunday as a planned motorway extension through the Dannenröder forest pits the autobahn against 250-year-old oak trees.About 27 hectares (67 acres) of forest are to supposed to cleared by next February to make way for a new 3km stretch of the A49 dual carriageway. Police in the state of Hesse are preparing for months of stand-offs with protesters, who say the erosion of a healthy mixed forest makes a mockery of the German government...

City AM

• Ride hailing app Ola banned in LondonUber rival Ola has been banned from operating in the capital by Transport for London The post Ride hailing app Ola banned in London appeared first on CityAM.

Birmingham Post

• How booting the commute could transform the Welsh economyGareth Jones, the co-founder of Town Square which seeks to bring creative communities together, asks whether it is time to change the way we work

New Civil Engineer

• Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce backs temporary ferry crossingThe Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce has backed a short-term ferry service to provide a route across the Thames while the bridge remains closed.

Transportxtra

• PM launches review of transport connections across the UKSir Peter Hendy CBE to lead independent review of road, rail, sea and air links across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England
• PM launches review of transport connections across the UKSir Peter Hendy CBE to lead independent review of road, rail, sea and air links across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England

Other News Sources

• This is the road in Hereford with the most reported potholes AN online map from Herefordshire Council has revealed there are currently dozens of potholes in Hereford waiting to be filled in.