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Wednesday, 06 October 2021

BBC News

• Plans to end Birmingham's 'car dominance' revealedThey include closing Queensway to motorists, a default 20mph speed limit and removing free parking.
• Fuel stocks in South and London behind rest of UKLatest data suggest 86% of petrol stations nationally have both types of fuel.

Financial Times

• Pick-up trucks and climate politics: will American drivers go electric?A battery-powered version of Ford’s most iconic vehicle will test the US appetite for more environmentally friendly cars

City AM

• Fuel prices going up, green energy getting cheap: now it’s time for a flexible energy gridThe ongoing gas crisis has highlighted that our current energy system is unsustainable. As fuel prices have tripled in a The post Fuel prices going up, green energy getting cheap: now it’s time for a flexible energy grid appeared first on CityAM.

Other Regional Press

• Green Party’s transport lead hears concerns about Arundel A27 bypass during visitThe Green Party’s national transport spokesperson visited West Sussex to hear concerns about the proposed Arundel A27 bypass

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• GEFCO expands Merseyside footprint with €6.4M investmentGlobal automotive logistics specialist GEFCO UK, has expanded its footprint in Liverpool with the opening of a new, state-of-the-art, 176,000ft² logistics sequencing centre in Speke.   The facility comes as part of a €6.4million investment by GEFCO and their client Jaguar Land Rover and marks a new chapter in GEFCO’s relationship with the automotive giant.   The new centre is set to create around 140 jobs for Merseyside and reaffirms GEFCO’s commitment to driving forward investment and manufacturing in the region.   Cedric Chacon, Managing Director at GEFCO...