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Double-spend warning over high-speed rail link
A HIGH-speed rail route from London should not end at Manchester as billions of pounds will need to be spent upgrading the network into Scotland anyway, Transport Minister Keith Brown has claimed.
Transport chief calls for tram-train investment
Public transport chief Geoff Inskip has urged the government to invest millions of pounds into tram-trains. Mr Inskip called on the Department for Transport to set aside £100 million a year from the savings identified in the McNulty Report into improving efficiency in Britain™s rail industry to develop tram-train networks across the country. Tram-train is [...]
Tuesday, 03 July 2012
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- Bus is named after blind runnerA bus is named after West Midlands marathon runner Dave Heeley, who has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity.
- Talks to avert Games bus strikesTalks aimed at stopping fresh strikes by London bus workers in a row over Olympic bonuses are held at Acas.
The Guardian
- Transport in Leeds and Manchester gets that London feeling Both northern cities have today revealed moves that show some of the lessons learned in capital - Manchester is thinking Oyster while Leeds wants to take on the buses
The Herald
- Serious defects found in school trip busesNINE buses that were used to take school pupils to a safari park were taken off the road after police found serious mechanical defects on the vehicles.
The Scotsman
- Police swoop on defective busesNine buses that were being used to take school pupils to Blair Drummond safari park, near Stirling, were taken off the road after a police operation found serious mechanical defects on the vehicles.
Other Regional Press
- Mums raise stakes in school bus rowA group of mothers who have been campaigning for a school bus to be reinstated to their village were visited by a Whitehall representative on Friday in a bid to change national legislation.
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