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Technology that links vehicles together into semi-autonomous 'road trains' undergoes its first real world tests in Sweden.
Airport's wings are clipped by global downturn
SCOTLAND'S busiest airport has drastically scaled back expansion plans in the face of the global economic downturn and is not likely to need a second runway in the next 30 years, it emerged yesterday.
£560m fund for green travel plans
A £560 million fund to encourage green transport initiatives is at the heart of a local transport White Paper from the Government.
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
BBC News
- First splashes cash for pool bidPlans for an Olympic-sized swimming pool for Aberdeen receive a £100,000 funding boost from FirstGroup.
The Independent
- Hundreds of bus services to be axed as councils cut subsidiesHundreds of bus services, including vital links to remote rural areas, are to be scrapped or scaled back because of the squeeze on public spending, The Independent has discovered.
Birmingham Mail
- Ring and Ride bus service faces cuts amid grant fears BIRMINGHAM’S lifeline Ring and Ride bus service for the elderly is facing cuts after transport budgets were squeezed.
Metro
- Regeneration fund bid for Castleford Transport Interchange Metro and Wakefield Council are this week submitting a £14.3m Leeds City Region bid to the Government’s new Regional Growth Fund to enable work on a new Castleford Transport Interchange to go ahead.
Other Regional Press
- Fuel tax blamed as bus company EYMS 'left with no choice' but to put up fares AN East Yorkshire bus company has raised passenger fares to cope with the increased tax on fuel. Peter Shipp, from EYMS, said he was left with "no choice" but to reluctantly put up prices.
- The many reasons why we have had to increase bus fares WE HAVE just announced our bus fares are to rise on January 22 and I mainly blame big rises in the cost of diesel and Government fuel tax.
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