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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Times Online

• Manufacturers may be forced to sell electric cars in drive towards zero emissions [subscription]Carmakers could be compelled to sell a rising share of electric vehicles each year under California-style plans being considered by the government.

City AM

• From Wigan Warrior to eco-warrior: Let’s make the future electric OpinionMartin Offiah is a former professional rugby footballer and is now a director of Connected Kerb, a provider of on-street residential charging for electric cars

Birmingham Mail

• Voi e-scooters being dumped in Birmingham canals weeks after launchVoi says it is developing a 'drowning feature' to alert them to any of the dumped e-scooters

Other Regional Press

• Next phase of £9.8m Clarendon Road project underway The next phase to transform a gateway into Watford town centre has begun
• Next phase of £25.9m transport project linking Huddersfield to HalifaxThe project is funded by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority
• Bradford Council 'acting like a dictatorship' over new link roadThe Green Party isn't happy about the £64m scheme
• Car parking charges 'will impact post-Covid recovery' INCREASED car parking charges, which have been agreed without consultation by Dorset Council, may yet be reversed.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Next steps announced to boost road safety and close mobile phone loopholePeople using a hand-held mobile phone in all circumstances while driving will be breaking the law, under new government plans unveiled by Roads Minister Baroness Vere to close a legislation loophole and improve road safety. It’s already a criminal offence to use a hand-held mobile phone to call or text while driving, but not for other actions such as taking photos. While still distracting, drivers have escaped punishment due to a legal loophole where such actions aren’t seen as ‘interactive communication’, and therefore do not fit the current definition of the offence....

Other News Sources

• M65: Motorway among roads which could be hit by workers' strike action COMMUTERS are being warned that the winter could see widespread disruption to the North West’s motorway network, including on the M65, due to a dispute between construction firm Amey and road repair workers.
• Arundel A27 bypass a "sham of a public process", group claim THE ROUTE of a new bypass was chosen through