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Sunday, 27 October 2024

BBC News

• How the best railway station in UK earned its titleIt is a mild Friday morning in October and although rush hour has been and gone, Maghull railway station is still a hive of activity.
• Special needs pupils still waiting for transportSchool transport for 121 Stoke-on-Trent children with special needs is yet to be arranged nearly two months into the academic year.

The Guardian

• Ministers urged to cut ties with P&O Ferries owner over links to RussiaThe government is facing calls to cease trading with DP World because of its partnership with Putin’s northern sea route Ministers are facing calls to review the UK’s financial ties to the multinational logistics company DP World over its business deals in Russia.

Times Online

• The quieter, greener planes you'll be boarding for your next trip. [Subscription]More flights at peak times, quicker to get on and off and better for the environment, too. A new generation of jets will change the way we travel. Here's how
• Lost at the station. Follow the blind inventor's navigation app [subscription]Unlike services that rely on phone signal, this tool can tell you which way to turn at the platform, bus stop or even to your seat at the football
• Britain to axe up to 1.5m lampposts see how it would look [subscription]Street lights across the country, particularly in rural areas, may be replaced with cleaner alternatives to cut a £3bn bill
• Doomed from the start: the four reasons HS2 failed [subscription]Last week we exposed the chaos that still haunts the project. Now a former No 10 adviser sets out how it became Britain's worst infrastructure scheme in modern history

Birmingham Post

• New plan says Lancaster needs '1,500 council-run parking spaces'City council has consulted people and businesses about parking issues

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Buses to display poppies and free travel for Remembrance daysFirst buses will display poppies and offer free travel to those eligible over on Remembrance Sunday and Day.

Bristol Live

• Questions over transport links as Bristol Airport plans to spend ?400m on upgradesOver the past six months the airport has commenced its single largest ever scheme which will transform arriving and departing for every customer.

Northern Echo

• Transport Action Network lose High Court bid on A66 duallingA campaign group has lost a bid to bring a High Court legal challenge over the Government?s approval of a plan to dual a road in the north of England.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Alteration to proposed link road for giant ?1 billion West Midlands Rail Freight Interchange lodgedAn application has been lodged to alter the road dimensions on the proposed ?1 billion West Midlands Rail Freight Interchange in Staffordshire.

Chester Standard

• Cheshire: Council says transport network can cope with 4,200 new homesLand in south Warrington removed from the green belt has been earmarked for around 4,200 homes.

Other Regional Press

• Councillor expresses ?disappointment? over no disability friendly features to new railway bridgeA councillor has said they ?disappointed? that no disability-friendly features are part of a new railway footbridge set to open next month, despite lobbying with project managers at ?senior level?.
• New train links could create 3,000 jobsNEW ANALYSIS has shown 3,000 jobs could be created if the rail link is constructed between Coventry, Leicester and Nottingham.
• Proposed new train line would cut through 40 miles of Staffordshire countrysideStaffordshire will be "thrown under a train" by plans to create a new rail link between two regions, county councillors have said. The ambitious proposals for the Midlands-North West Rail Link have come forward in a private sector consortium report commissioned by the West Midlands and Greater Manchester Mayors, less than a year after controversial plans for the HS2 line between Handsacre and Crewe were scrapped by the previous Conservative Government.
• 'It's carnage' - Residents blast 'obscene' number of buses for cruise callResidents in Rodwell have said the number of passengers being dropped off by shuttle buses is ‘obscene’ after a massive cruise ship called in

Other News Sources

• I have to wait in a library all day for my kids to finish school thanks to the busesExamples of the barriers Lancashire residents face as a result of poor public transport will be presented to political leaders at a high-profile event in Preston next year.
• Cllr Iain Paterson: Argyll and Bute transport links vitalIn his first column back after a motorcycle accident, Councillor Iain Paterson updates on work at Argyll and Bute Council and Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.
• Cyclists brand new cycle lane "death trap" following three-person pile-upCyclists have branded a new cycle lane a “death trap” after a three-person pile up.