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Tuesday, 15 October 2019

BBC News

• Free Wales bus passes: 250,000 people apply after website crashTransport for Wales say it is receiving about 9,000 renewal applications every day for its new pass.
• Evo Triangle speed cameras 'still not active'Six months after being installed, speed cameras on a notorious road route are still not switched on.
• Trains: When will overcrowding on Transport for Wales services end?Passengers are frustrated by overcrowding on Welsh trains but operators say it will improve.
• New Year decision on Greater Manchester's bus networkGreater Manchester could become first region outside London to bring its buses back under public control.

ITV News

• One year of Transport for Wales: What is the state of our rail services?Over the past twelve months, TfW said it has put the customer "at the heart of their decisions" and has outlined an ambitious plan to significantly improve rail services in Wales over the course of the next six years.

The Telegraph

• A patchwork of green transport schemes won't deliver deep decarbonisation [Subscription]anchester Airport has been named as the worst for waiting times through security at the UK's largest airports, following a Which? investigation.

Times Online

• Brexit: lorry drivers must ‘do their bit’ on M20 [subscription]Measures to offset travel chaos in the event of a no-deal Brexit will be implemented three days before the UK is due to leave the EU, it was announced yesterday.
• Grant Shapps in spotlight over First Group rail contracts [subscription]The new transport secretary will be questioned by MPs on why his department handed the operation of the west coast main line and the new High Speed 2 line to First Group when the company’s running of South Western Railway already had financial and operational problems.
• Fears about £53m London garden bridge ‘downplayed to keep Boris Johnson happy’ [subscription]The risks of the doomed £53 million project to build a garden bridge over the Thames were “downplayed” to satisfy Boris Johnson when he was mayor of London, according to a report.

City AM

• London Night Tube crime rates soar in 2018-19Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been slammed as having a “complacent attitude” on crime in the wake of soaring violence on London’s Night Tube.

Mail Online

• Residents blast 'horrifying' Network Rail plans to move a storm-damaged coastal rail line onto a beauty spot beachResidents of a seaside resort have been horrified by plans to move a storm-hit coastal rail line on to a beauty spot beach in Devon.

Birmingham Post

• How a waterfront overhead railway in Liverpool could look - and where it would stopThe conceptual designs link Everton FC's new Bramley-Moore Dock stadium and Ten Streets with Dingle and Festival Gardens in the south of the city
• Siemens reveals Manchester as company's UK headquartersThe change sees head office move from Frimley, Surrey.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• New cycle links in South of Bradford soon to be revealedCYCLE routes linking Bradford city centre to Birkenshaw and Laisterdyke to Low Moor have been proposed under plans to boost cycling and walking in the district.

Liverpool Echo

• Up to £15k worth of belongings 'stolen' from Manchester AirportPolice would like to speak to the men pictured in the CCTV images in connection with this incident
• Exciting CGIs show just how a Liverpool waterfront overhead railway could look and workA CGI specialist has drawn up plans showing how the scheme could come off - and where the stations would be

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Passengers set for rail delays as series of East Coast Main Line closures announcedRail passengers face major disruption on the East Coast Main Line as the next stage of improvement works take place.

Northern Echo

• Grant for transport service to tackle isolation in Bishop Auckland and ShildonAN organisation which provides home care and a volunteer driver scheme has been given a £7,000 funding boost to tackle social isolation.

Yorkshire Post

• This is how Grant Shapps can put Yorkshire’s failing rail franchises out of their misery now – Tom RichmondGRANT Shapps has one small advantage over his predecessor as Transport Secretary. His name is not Chris Grayling.

Bucks Free Press

• 'Stop killing our trees': Protesters camp at Great Missenden HS2 site - as work starts tomorrow Protesters have pitched up at the site where HS2 is due to begin work tomorrow - despite calls from campaigners, MPs and the county council to halt them immediately.

Get Surrey

• 'Air does feel grubby': We visited Surrey areas that exceed safe air pollution levelsSurreyLive spoke to residents about living in areas that exceed government-advised air pollution levels

Other Regional Press

• Council's cash boost to make major upgrades to 'unreliable' A38 links to Bristol Airport, M5 and city centreAn 'unreliable' road which connects North Somerset to Bristol and the M5 appears set to receive major upgrades.
• Rail bosses show why Barrow services were cancelled after being told to 'get a grip'RAIL bosses have shown why they were forced to cancel services after flooding on the line between Barrow and Manchester.

Train Operators

• New appointment gives boost to East Suffolk Lines Community Rail PartnershipA community organisation hopes it will be able to do even more to keep rural rail lines thriving, thanks to the appointment of a new Community Rail Officer.

New Civil Engineer

• Exclusive | Northern Powerhouse Rail secures £75M government fundingNorthern Powerhouse Rail has secured £75M of government funding to further develop the scheme over the next year, New Civil Engineer can reveal.

Railnews

• Queen’s Speech promises ‘railway reform’PREDICTIONS that passenger rail franchises are set to be abolished have not been fulfilled in the Queen’s Speech, which included just one sentence: ‘Proposals on railway reform will be brought forward’, writes Sim Harris.

Transport Network

• Queen's Speech unveils major infrastructure plansThe Queen's Speech has pledged a revamped national infrastructure strategy designed to help support growth across the UK, as well as an aviation bill and proposals for rail reform.

Aviation Industry

• UK to overhaul airline insolvency legislationThe British government plans to introduce reformed airline insolvency legislation in a bid to strengthen consumer protections and provide more oversight of distressed airlines. read more
• New alliance to test overland corridor for civil SST developmentA new alliance of government, aerospace and manufacturing organizations is promoting creation of a commercially operated civilian supersonic corridor to allow developers of supersonic transports to flight-test their aircraft over land. read more

Other News Sources

• Scotland passes Transport Bill to help improve air qualityA bill was passed in Scotland last week (October 10) to write into law amendments for Low Emission Zones (LEZs), as well as giving councils the power to introduce a workplace parking levy.
• Open Transport Aims to Shake Up the Transport SectorOpen Transport is creating a standard way that transport customers can securely integrate their accounts together and share some transport data.
• Lib Dem candidate champions new rail link for High PeakA new £25m rail link could transform train travel for High Peak passengers, a candidate bidding to become the area's next MP has claimed.
• Councillor slams £140,000 roadworks on roundabout set to be axedA COUNCIL’S £140,000 renovation of a roundabout which is set to be scrapped has been slammed as a “colossal waste of moneyâ€�.