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Thursday, 12 November 2020

Times Online

• Traffic bans outside schools rise fourfold [subscription]Children at almost 400 schools in London are now protected from air pollution by temporary traffic bans, a more than fourfold increase in less than six months.

London Evening Standard

• Surge in road schemes that fine parents for doing school run by carAlmost 400 ‘school streets’ in London as campaigners call for the schemes to be made permanent

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Taxi drivers' anger at Newcastle Central Station fees charged during pandemicDrivers have called on London North Eastern Railway to ease the burden of permit payments at the station due to the the impact of the coronavirus lockdown on their business

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Addison Lee launches new delivery serviceAddison Lee has launched a new delivery service to provide consumers with access to their own dedicated delivery drivers to help them during lockdown. AL REQUEST is a new click and collect feature in their existing courier service which will help both businesses and consumers as they navigate the second lockdown and future COVID-19 restrictions.    Immediately after the first lockdown in March, demand for Addison Lee’s courier services rose by 30% as businesses and people adapted to spending lots more time at home. The focus at that time was to support a monumental shift in the...

New Civil Engineer

• Skanska’s Dutch-style roundabout sparks safety fears two months after openingSafety concerns have been raised over a £2.3M Dutch-style roundabout in Cambridge just two months after it opened.
• Roads minister says she would ‘build Stonehenge Tunnel tomorrow’ as opposition to scheme mountsRoads minister Baroness Charlotte Vere has said she would "build Stonehenge Tunnel tomorrow” if it was her decision.

Other News Sources

• New driving test measures reaction time on the roads A new test is demonstrating how important wearing high-visibility clothing is when it comes to helping improve a driver’s reaction time.