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Tuesday, 21 November 2023

BBC News

• Clean air zone: Senedd to debate M4 pollution chargeWelsh Conservatives push vote to scrap road charging proposals from Welsh clean air law.

The Guardian

• Tesla may have picked an unwinnable fight with Sweden's powerful unions | Martin GelinThe first ever strikes and a solidarity blockade against the US carmaker could force it to rethink its entire anti-union modelFor the first time anywhere in the world, workers for the US carmaker Tesla have gone on strike. It's not a coincidence that this strike is happening in Sweden, which has one of the strongest labour movements in Europe. More than 90% of workers are protected by collective bargaining agreements, and the system has strong backing among employees and employers alike. With good reason: the Swedish labour relations model has sustained relative industrial peace between wage-e...

The Independent

• Spark EV battery production to prevent decline of UK car industry, MPs warnA report by the cross-party Business and Trade Committee stated that hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk.

Times Online

• Batteries shortfall ‘jeopardises 160,000 jobs’ [subscription]Up to 160,000 motor industry jobs and more in the supply chain are at risk unless the government resets its priorities in the production of batteries.

City AM

• Boost EV battery production to prevent decline of UK car industry, MPs warn Electric vehicle (EV) battery production must be incentivised to prevent the decline of the UK car industry, MPs warned.

Birmingham Mail

• 'Every driver to save £440' as Government makes major roads announcementHuge investment to improve the condition of crumbling roads

Birmingham Post

• Government action on EV batteries needed to prevent decline in car industry, MPs warnA cross-party group of MPs launched its investigation into battery production as the Britishvolt project foundered earlier this year

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Bradford vehicle company plunged into administrationWorkers in Bradford and Brighouse face an uncertain future after the companies they work for went into administration.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• 10 months of roadworks on border motorway near Cheshire Oaks The project is due to be completed next summer and will include a section of road heading to and shopping complex near Broughton
• Bus lanes in Wales 'should be exempted' from 20mph limit to make driving less appealingTaxes and motoring charges should also be hiked to drive a switch to public transport, an influential think tank believes

Wales Online

• The city road that's painful to drive down because of the number of cars in gridlockIf you've ever driven down Cardiff's Leckwith Road at at any number of different times of day you'll probably have experienced the pain of driving on one of the busiest roads in the city
• Cardiff's congestion charge should be £3, report saysPublic transport changes are needed and money has to be raised to pay for it

Other Regional Press

• TfL 'misled public' on the benefits of the ULEZ', reportsLeaked drafts have revealed that the TfL 'misled public' on the benefits on the ULEZ.
• Everything you need to know about compliant diesel cars in 2023A huge amount of drivers in the UK have been anxious to upgrade a non-compliant car or van to one that will pass emissions regulations such as ULEZ in Greater London, and the other Clean Air Zones around the UK.

Green Miscellany

• There’s nothing new about motoring miscreants as first ULEZ vandals prosecutedIn 1935, a young boy fishing in a pond at Swanwick, Hampshire landed eight 30mph road signs – roundels that had recently been installed across the country to enforce the new national speed limit. It’s not clear whether the vandal was caught, but nearly 90 years later a small mob of motoring miscreants is back at it – this time… The post There’s nothing new about motoring miscreants as first ULEZ vandals prosecuted appeared first on ETA.

Other News Sources

• Council responds after extra funding announced to fix roadsAs previously reported by the Gazette, on Friday, November 17, transport secretary Mark Harper set out the allocations of an £8.3bn national long-term plan.