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Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Birmingham Mail

• Birmingham gets TWENTY new bus lane cameras: What the council says City council warning over new enforcement which will see drivers handed £60 fines for straying into bus lanes

Bolton News

• Bolton News reader's letter: Bus journey is not ideal but is far less of an inconvenienceI AM no railway timetable expert, but if the railway line at Moses Gate is to be closed for up to six weeks, is it not possible to run trains from Manchester and the south to Kearsley or Farnworth stations and from Bolton northwards with a bus shuttle along St Peter's Way between the two — or is this solution too simple?

London Evening Standard

• Surge in rough sleeping on London's Night Tube and night busesCity Hall creates task force to tackle the problem. A surge in rough sleeping on London’s night Tubes and buses has prompted City Hall to send in a task force to tackle the problem.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Cleaner journeys as government commits £11 million to greener buses Local authorities and bus companies in Bristol, York, Brighton, Surrey, Denbighshire and Wiltshire have been awarded funding under the government’s ‘Low emission bus scheme’ to help them buy 153 cleaner buses. The successful bidders will use the funding to buy new electric and gas buses, and to install stations to fuel or charge them. The government is determined to clean up air in towns and cities across the country, and today’s (28 August 2017) investment in green buses comes after our air quality plan was published last month. Transport Minister Paul Maynard said...