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• Industry chiefs weigh up Network Rail privatisation, new minutes show

  31-01-2016 16:33
  
  Labour warns against possible ‘return to dark days of Railtrack’ as meeting minutes show rail industry leaders exploring utility-style sell-off
  Labour has warned against returning to the “dark days of Railtrack” as it emerged that senior rail industry leaders have been exploring the breakup and privatisation of Network Rail.Freshly published minutes of a November meeting of the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which includes train operators and Network Rail, show that executive
  
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• Water taxi plan for Manchester

  31-01-2016 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Firm given licence to begin operating two water taxis - or Waxis - along Bridgewater Canal in Manchester.
  
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• UK railway journey number doubles over last two decades

  31-01-2016 01:00 via expressandstar.com
  Wolverhampton Express and Star - Data from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) shows 1.4 billion trips were made by train in 2014/15 compared to just 590 million in 1995/96.
  
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• Transport minister rejects self-confessed speeders A9 camera criticism

  31-01-2016 01:00 via thecourier.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - A fresh war of words has erupted over A9 average speed cameras after Scotlands transport minister Derek Mackay dismissed their staunchest critic as a self-confessed speeder.
  
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• Transport Minister Derek Mackay hails impact of average speed cameras on the A9

  31-01-2016 01:00 via dailyrecord.co.uk
  
  Daily Record - Since the introduction of the speeding measures and a test 50mph lorry speed in October 2014, accidents have been cut by nearly 60 on some stretchesand by nearly 45 between Perth and Inverness.
  
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• The next wave

  31-01-2016 01:00 via thesundaytimes.co.uk
  Times Online - With buyers looking beyond London, Graham Norwood highlights 11 boom towns that are set to make a splash
  
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• Strathclyde Transport quango makes £10m loss on HQ sale

  31-01-2016 01:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  The Herald -A transport authority is under fire after making a 10m loss following the sale of its headquarters in Glasgow.
  
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• Sheffield bus services improving after chaotic cuts, passengers told

  31-01-2016 01:00 via sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sheffield Telegraph - Bus chiefs say Sheffield services are improving with more running on time after they were forced to make changes to drastic cuts following a public outcry.
  
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• Row over plan for compulsory glass panels in lorry doors to protect cyclists

  31-01-2016 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Lorry drivers have hit out at plans for a compulsory second window in lorry doors in a bid to reduce crashes.
  
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• Newport Transport say their customers will decide whether buses return to city centre

  31-01-2016 01:00 via southwalesargus.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -NEWPORT Transport has said it will be their customers who will decide whether buses return to the High Street and not market traders.
  
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• Metro system has design fault, says rail network boss

  31-01-2016 01:00 via sunderlandecho.com
  
  Sunderland Echo - A rail boss says that a power fault which caused chaos to thousands of Metro passengers happened because the system has a design fault which means it does not meet the networks standards.
  
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• Hyperloop: MIT students win contest to design Elon Musk's 700mph travel pods

  31-01-2016 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Student engineers win right to build and test concept for high-speed ground transport tubes at new track to be built next to SpaceX headquartersMIT student engineers won a competition to transform SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musks idea into a design for a Hyperloop to move pods of people at high speed. Related: Elon Musk: Tesla cars will be able to cross US with no driver in two yearsContinue reading...
  
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• Great Western Railway operating team wins national 'Golden Whistle' award

  31-01-2016 01:00 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -The operating team at Great Western Railway (GWR) has taken the Golden Whistle in a national awards ceremony.
  
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• Cross-border trains 'threat' dismissed

  31-01-2016 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Concerns direct cross-border rail services could be under threat due to devolution are dismissed by Wales' transport minister.
  
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• Cheap cab ride? You must have missed Ubers true cost Evgeny Morozov

  31-01-2016 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - When tech giants such as Google and Uber hide their wealth from taxation, they make it harder for us to use technology to improve servicesTo understand why we see so few genuine alternatives to US technology giants, its instructive to compare the fate of a company like Ubervalued at more than $62.5bn (mp;pound;44bn)and that of Kutsuplus, an innovative Finnish startup forced to shut down late last year.Kutsupluss aspiration was to be the Uber of public transport: it operated a netw
  
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• Campaigners call for rail link construction lorries to be rerouted

  31-01-2016 01:00 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -VILLAGERS in North Oxfordshire have warned their home will become a rat-run if thousands of lorries are allowed to drive through every week as part of the HS2 project.
  
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• BA flight from London to Chicago makes a successful emergency landing

  31-01-2016 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - A hero British Airways pilot has been praised after he dramatically grounded a plane en route to Chicago from London Heathrow despite two of its five sets of wheels malfunctioning.
  
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• Airbus shrugs off China woes in efficiency drive

  31-01-2016 01:00 via scotsman.com
  
  The Scotsman - AIRBUS has unveiled tough new efficiency targets for this year and 2017 as the planemaker, which spends some £400 million annually with suppliers in Scotland, also shrugs off fears about the medium-term impact of the Chinese slowdown and oil price slump.
  
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• 500 kids with special needs facing cuts in home-to-school transport

  31-01-2016 01:00 via derbytelegraph.co.uk
  Derbyshire Telegraph - AROUND 500 disabled children are facing changes to the way their school transport is funded and organised.
  Derbyshire County Council has started a seven-week consultation on the future of home-to-school transport for children with special needs and is hoping to involve families who use the service.
  
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