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Smart motorways should be abandoned so "more serious injuries or fatalities" can be avoided, a Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has said.
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BBC News
- 'Abandon smart motorways', says South Yorkshire PCCSmart motorways should be abandoned so "more serious injuries or fatalities" can be avoided, a Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has said.
Financial Times
- Maersk aims for first carbon-neutral container ship in 2 yearsShipping line plans green methanol vessel in industry under pressure to cut emissions
The Independent
- UK aviation shut down: pilots union demands action from PMPlease dont go ahead and book holidays, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, told the public last week
Times Online
- Covid in Scotland: Rail tickets to adjust for new normal [subscription]ScotRail is working on overhauling its ticketing options as it expects post-pandemic travel patterns to be dramatically altered.
- Ditch smart motorway: police boss, Alan Billings demands return of the hard shoulder [subscription]A smart motorway criticised by coroners should be abandoned after another broken down car was in a serious crash, ministers have been told.
City AM
- Budget airlines primed for land grab as flag carriers face change of flight pathAfter nearly a year of intense disruption, one could be forgiven for expecting even Ryanair’s perennially bullish boss Michael O’Leary The post Budget airlines primed for land grab as flag carriers face change of flight path appeared first on CityAM.
Conservative Party
- Paul Howell and Heather Wheeler: Full HS2 is critical to our election commitment to rebalance the economyPaul Howell is the MP for Sedgefield and Heather Wheeler is the MP for South Derbyshire.
Bradford Telegraph & Argus
- Airport bus "to be axed"LABOURS candidate for the Ilkley ward in Mays elections, George Scaife, has criticised the axing of the 62 bus from Keighley and Ilkley to Leeds Bradford Airport.
Daily Post (North Wales)
- Conwy village cut off from its own train station - after 1m spent revamping itDwr Cymru/Welsh Water are closing the bridge linking Dolgarrog to the railway station
Liverpool Echo
- Neighbours left with 'rumbling floors' as new city centre bus hub criticisedPeople living near a new city centre bus facility have been left unable to sleep due to noise from vehicles late at night and early in the morning.
London Evening Standard
- 550-a-day fines for truckers in London with no safety camerasThousands of truckers face 550 fines for driving into London from next month because they have yet to meet new road safety regulations.
- Quarantined travellers have to pay extra 1,200 if they test positive for Covid-19Travellers shipped to airport quarantine hotels will be landed with an extra 1,200 bill if they test positive for coronavirus, the Government has revealed.
- Guests in quarantine hotels near Heathrow ‘keep positive to beat boredom’Guests forced to quarantine in hotels near Heathrow today said they were trying to “keep positive to avoid going cuckoo”.
- Does Boris really want to be the Prime Minister who let TfL collapse?Upminster and Uxbridge began life as distant villages in separate counties. Today they’re London suburbs, separated by 30 miles of concrete and brick. The thing that melded such distant places into a single city was the rise of commuting, and the public transport system that allowed it. There is a reason why certain nerdy corners of the internet use Tube map content as clickbait, or why this newspaper runs a Tube quiz every day: the network is the thing that connects all Londoners. There is an extent to which London is its transport system.
The York Press
- 'York waits 40 years - then gets three new car parks at once!' With two newly approved multi-storey car parks - at St George’s Field and the railway station - and a third one in the pipeline for York Central, the current Lib Dem-Green Council has really excelled itself. You wait forty years for a multi-storey car park and then three come along at once!
Burnley Express
- Transdev: New look buses for Blackburn, Burley and Preston Hotline route LANCASHIRE bus operator Transdev have announced plans to upgrade its inter-urban bus route.
Carlisle News & Star
- Network Rail replace Cumbrian road bridge near AspatriaA CONSTRUCTION operation is under way to replace a railway bridge on one of Cumbrias most scenic routes.
Other Regional Press
- Kirklees land-swap deal to go ahead - despite fears over housing plansIt will aid the delivery of the 2.9bn Transpennine Rail upgrade
- Mature trees by Walthamstow train tracks 'obliterated'People living beside railway lines have criticised Network Rail for cutting down mature trees to prevent service disruptions.
- Calls for reintroduction of HS2 link through High LeghCALLS have been made to reintroduce a section of HS2 railway which would run through High Legh.
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
- Jaguar car brand to be all-electric by 2025Jaguar Land Rover's Jaguar brand will be all-electric by 2025, the carmaker has said. The company will launch electric models of its entire Jaguar and Land Rover line-up by 2030, it added. The firm said it would keep all three of its three British plants open as part of its new strategy. But it has dropped plans to build an electric version of its XJ saloon at the Castle Bromwich plant, meaning the site will eventually stop making cars. Chief executive Thierry Bollor said the plant would focus instead on
New Civil Engineer
- Edinburgh tram extension tabled by councilPlans for an extension to Edinburghs tram network have been put forward by Edinburgh City Council.
Railnews
- Concern grows over Northern Powerhouse Rail A delay in publishing the Department for Transports Integrated Rail Plan is causing more concern at Transport for the North, whose board is set to be told that improvements to the regions rail services are also being affected by the uncertainty.
Other News Sources
- Oyster-style ticketing ‘essential for MidlandsCould be up and running in some areas as soon as 2022, and implemented region-wide by 2024, if the chancellor provides funding ‘Swift’ in the West Midlands is the UK’s second biggest public transport payment system after London’s Oyster scheme MPs have urged the government to invest in a Midlands-wide ‘tap and cap’ smart ticketing system for public transport, to boost passenger numbers, convenience and safety post-Covid-19. New research by strategic regional transport body Midlands Connect, which helped to develop the plans, showed that nine out of ten people surveyed supported t...
- Hampshire County Council Local Transport Plan consultationHAMPSHIRE County Council is asking for views on the principles and vision of the county's Local Transport Plan.
- Coronavirus speeds up major Brighton high street changes THE coronavirus crisis has accelerated major changes to Brighton's shopping streets, a retail expert has said.
- Network Rail reveals great support for East Linton railway station plansNETWORK Rail has said there is great local support for its plans to bring a railway station to East Linton.
- TSSA Raises Concerns Over Government Transpennine CommitmentTSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has raised what he described as "real concerns" after Network Rail (NR) said it does not have the funds required to electrify two new stretches of the Transpennine Route, despite a promise from the Government.
- Make East West Rail electric and not diesel, Lib Dems urgeThe Liberal Democrats candidate for Mayor of Cambridge and Peterborough has launched a campaigntostopdiesel trains being used on the new East West Rail line.
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