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Christ Stokes Column - Perhaps now is the time for North Wales and Chester to join the HS2 network?
Publication of the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and the Midlands, originally scheduled for early this year, now finally seems to be imminent. A month or so ago, it was anticipated that it would be announced at the same time as the Comprehensive Spending Review on 27th October, then the expected date briefly moved forward, but has now slipped back to mid-November, amidst rumours that Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were arguing about the scope, with the Prime Minster wanting greater ambition, hence higher spending. Surely, all will at long last be revealed in the next few weeks?
Manchester plans for carbon neutral transport network
Plans include creating an all-electric bus fleet and expanding tram services in Greater Manchester.
More than 80 miles of smart motorways will open in defiance of transport secretary's guidelines
Highways bosses are reportedly ignoring guidance issued by transport secretary Grant Shapps which states refuges on smart motorways should be no more than one mile apart.
Reports Leeds tram network could finally happen if HS2 link scrapped
Leeds is the largest city in Western Europe without a built-in mass transit system and plans in the early 2000s were dreamed up for a ‘supertram’ which never came to be
Tuesday, 09 November 2021
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The Guardian
- Carmaking recast: West Midlands finds new role in electric vehicle industrySome firms reinvent themselves in the battery era, but others struggle as work moves abroadCorners of the Alucast factory in the Black Country would be familiar to metalworkers several centuries ago. Workers pour molten aluminium at 720C into steel moulds. The cooling metal is then quickly pressed into shape before being sanded down into parts for gas-guzzling British sports cars.Yet for all its traditional West Midlands manufacturing roots, Alucast is finding a role for itself in a fast-growing new industry: electric cars. Continue reading...
Mail Online
- More than 80 miles of smart motorways will open in defiance of transport secretary's guidelinesHighways bosses are reportedly ignoring guidance issued by transport secretary Grant Shapps which states refuges on smart motorways should be no more than one mile apart.
Birmingham Mail
- 'Total death traps' - M5 drivers slam smart motorwaysMPs wants the roll-out of the smart motorways - where there is no hard shoulder - to be scrapped amid claims they are dangerous - and Worcestershire motorists agree
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