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• Air pollution is driving us all down a road to ruin | Letters

  10-11-2016 20:08
  
  That the government is now at last being forced to do more to reduce the dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide air pollution is welcome news (Court defeat for government on air pollution, 3 November). More than a year on from the “dieselgate” revelations, ministers should have been in no doubt about the dishonest and illegal methods used by some manufacturers to cheat emissions tests. Not only has the government failed to update its pollution modelling based on realistic emissions fig
  
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• Out now: Issue 147 of Passenger Transport

  10-11-2016 15:11 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Issue 147 of Passenger Transport is published on November 11
  Contents include:
    
  LEAD STORYOptions explored for renationalised ScotRail
  CalMac model said to be among the options that Scottish Government is investigating for returning Scotland’s railway to public ownership
   
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  ‘Partnership’ franchise for West Coast route
  The government has announced a new rail franchise which will combine the current InterCity West Coast services with the first HS2 services
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• Options explored for renationalised ScotRail

  10-11-2016 14:50 via passengertransport.co.uk
  CalMac model said to be among the options that Scottish Government is investigating for returning Scotland’s railway to public ownership
   
  Humza Yousaf (centre) pictured earlier this month with Phil Verster, MD of ScotRail Alliance (left), to mark Living Wage Week 2016
   
  Scottish Government ministers are said to be “preparing the ground” for introducing some form of public ownership in the event that they proceed with their threat to strip Abellio of the ScotRail cont
  
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• Taking a ride on Slide – a new option

  10-11-2016 14:42 via passengertransport.co.uk
  RATP Dev’s pioneering app-based ‘Slide Bristol’ travel solution is an attractive new option
   
  A The Slide app is very easy to use
   
  By Robert Jack
  Is this public transport’s answer to Uber? August saw the launch in Bristol of ‘Slide’, a new app-based shared ride service developed by French group RATP Dev. It is the first service of its kind in the UK.
  It’s not a bus and it’s not a taxi, it’s something in between. There have been man
  
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• Hayes’ nightmare vision of transport beauty

  10-11-2016 14:37 via passengertransport.co.uk
  John Hayes’ views on attractive transport infrastructure are incoherent and a prejudiced example of Modernism-bashing
   
  Hoenheim-Nord tram terminus
   
  By Daniel Wright
  The UK government has decided that transport infrastructure should look nice as well as working well, enhancing the built environment rather than detracting from it, as transport minister John Hayes explained in a speech to the Independent Transport Commission on October 31.
  Leaving aside the annoyance of the fact t
  
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• Awards recognise cycle-rail revolution

  10-11-2016 14:22 via passengertransport.co.uk
  2016 National Cycle-Rail Awards show how work by the rail industry and its partners is oiling the wheels of a cycle-rail boom across Britain
   
  East Midlands Trains won two awards
   Better bike facilities at stations and on trains are helping to fuel a rapid rise in the number of people combining cycle and rail to get to work or to make leisure trips, with around 50million ‘cycle-rail’ journeys last year, up 40% on 2010.
  The number of cycle-rail journeys where a bike is parke
  
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• Croydon tram driver 'blacked out' in crash that killed seven, claim passengers

  10-11-2016 09:21
  
  Driver is arrested as investigators say they believe tram was going too fast when it derailed in south LondonAt least seven people have been killed and more than 50 taken to hospital after a tram, believed to have been going too fast, crashed in south London on Wednesday morning.Survivors of the accident said people went flying as the tram left the tracks, with bodies and blood inside the carriages following the derailment, which occurred at about 6.10am. Some passengers said the driver of the v
  
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• Why Airbus fears planned Broughton Shopping Park restaurant could lead to 'deadly bird strikes'

  10-11-2016 01:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  
  Daily Post (North Wales) - Hercules Unit Trust want to build two aviation inspired eating places in homage to Airbus at the shopping park
  
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• Valley lines may not get "conventional electrification

  10-11-2016 01:00 via itv.com
  
  ITV News - The firms bidding for the new Wales rail franchise will be asked to look at alternatives for delivering electrification of the main valley lines services. The Welsh Government has told them that the planned £350 million "conventional electrification" is not the only option.
  
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• UPDATED: New strike action to hit First Dorset buses

  10-11-2016 01:00 via dorsetecho.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -A NEW wave of strike action is to hit bus services.
  
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• UPDATE: Train delays after overhead wire damage

  10-11-2016 01:00 via bedfordtoday.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Network Rail is sorry for the disruption to rail passengers as engineers work to fix rail equipment at Luton.
  
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• UKs Network Rail reopens Bromsgrove line after £100m upgrade

  10-11-2016 01:00 via railway-technology.com
  Other News Sources -UKs Network Rail has reopened the railway line at Bromsgrove after completing a £100m track and signalling upgrade.
  
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• Tram driver arrested after seven die in rush-hour crash subscription

  10-11-2016 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  
  Times Online - At least seven passengers were killed and more than 50 injured when a tram overturned while speeding around a bend yesterday morning.
  
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• Ten held in dawn raids over 2m rail track theft in South Yorkshire

  10-11-2016 01:00 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire Post - TEN people were arrested today in a series of dawn swoops by police investigating the theft of rail tracks worth £2m from South Yorkshire and the East Midlands.
  
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• Taking it to the cloud with Trainline

  10-11-2016 01:00 via railway-technology.com
  
  Other News Sources -Its been a busy few months at Trainline as the travel website has recently moved its systems to the cloud and launched a dedicated business platform. How will this change the passenger experience, as the company seeks to consolidate its position as
  
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• Steamer TS Queen Mary returns to Glasgow

  10-11-2016 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A steam ship that worked the Clyde for decades has returned to Glasgow for the first time since 1977.
  
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• St Pancras delays: Commuters to face third day of rush hour chaos

  10-11-2016 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Furious commuters have faced a second day of chaos as north-bound trains from London St Pancras were hit by delays and severe cancellations.
  
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• Special council meeting call over Nantwich and Macclesfield school bus axe decision

  10-11-2016 01:00 via crewechronicle.co.uk
  
  Crewe Chronicle -Conservative, Labour, Independent and Lib Dem councillors are calling for a vote of no confidence in the Tory cabinet decision to scrap free school buses on 'unsafe' walking routes
  
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• RMT calls for ScotRail to be under public ownership subscription

  10-11-2016 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  
  Times Online - The RMT union staged a day of protest yesterday calling for the ScotRail franchise to be put into public ownership.
  
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• Rail services hit from Bolton at weekends for rest of year

  10-11-2016 01:00 via theboltonnews.co.uk
  
  Bolton News -RAIL services between Bolton and Manchester will be limited at weekends until the New Year, transport bosses have said.
  
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• New trains 'a must' for rail contract and £600m Metro

  10-11-2016 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Firms competing to run rail services in Wales must provide new trains which "meet passenger expectations and demands", a minister has said.
  
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• More Bombardier trains for Hamburg S-Bahn

  10-11-2016 01:00 via railjournal.com
  
  Other News Sources - HAMBURG city senator for economics, transport and innovation Mr Frank Horch announced on November 8 that the city has instructed German Rail (DB) subsidiary S-Bahn Hamburg to exercise an option for 12 additional Bombardier class 490 EMUs to increase capacity on lines S3 and S11.
  
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• Manchester Airport reaches 25m passengers for the first time

  10-11-2016 01:00 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  Manchester Evening News -And theres room to more than double passenger numbers to 55m per year generating £75bn worth of economic benefit to the north west.
  
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• Leeds-Bradford Cycle Superhighway could be fatal

  10-11-2016 01:00 via yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire Evening Post - A cyclist fears it is only a matter of time until there is a fatal accident on a new cycle superhighway after she was injured twice on the road.
  
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• Is car use declining? Calderdale thinks so as it looks to re-shape its transport strategy

  10-11-2016 01:00 via examiner.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Council says more people are walking, cycling and using trains
  
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• IAG CEO Willie Walsh urges new UK-US Open Skies agreement

  10-11-2016 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- International Airlines Group (IAG) CEO Willie Walsh, speaking in Washington DC Nov. 9 at the International Aviation Club, congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on his election victory and urged the US government and the aviation industry to support a new US-UK Open Skies agreement modeled on the existing US-European Union (EU) Open Skies agreement. read more
  
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• HS2 rail link 'will destroy irreplaceable ancient woodland'

  10-11-2016 01:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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• Heathrow Airport fire: reports of burning on British Airways plane

  10-11-2016 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Firefighters were called to Heathrow Airport after a burning smell was reported on a British Airways plane this morning.
  
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• Green Park Tube station evacuated at rush hour after fire alert

  10-11-2016 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Green Park Tube station was evacuated and closed at rush hour after a fire alert.
  
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• Floating an idea: The 1 billion China trade project in London's Docklands

  10-11-2016 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - When Australian property developer Geoff Baker's great-great-great-grandfather was a convict in a prison hulk on the Thames, waiting to be deported to Sydney for stealing a book, little did he know that 228 years later one of his descendants would return to England, armed with an ambitious 1 billion "China on Thames" property plan.
  
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• Finance report slams delays to rail overhaul

  10-11-2016 01:00 via southwalesargus.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - A PROJECT modernising the railway running through Gwent has been branded a case study in how not to manage a major programme by a public spending watchdog.
  
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• Fare-dodgers forgiven if they watch adverts on smartphone subscription

  10-11-2016 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  
  Times Online - Thousands of German commuters have signed up to an app that offers a free ticket for the bus, train or tram in exchange for watching 80 seconds of advertising on their mobile phone.
  
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• Expert panel aims to get Leeds transport plans on the move

  10-11-2016 01:00 via yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire Evening Post - Council bosses in Leeds have assembled a new panel of experts to help them drive forward the citys transport ambitions.
  
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• Electric car charge point use doubles

  10-11-2016 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - The use of electric car charging points across Scotland has more than doubled in the last year.
  
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• Driver of tram involved in south London crash which left five dead has been arrested, police confirm

  10-11-2016 01:00 via eadt.co.uk
  
  East Anglian Daily Times - Five people have died after a tram in London derailed during rush-hour this morning.
  
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• Dont rule out new flights from Aberdeen to Heathrow

  10-11-2016 01:00 via pressandjournal.co.uk
  
  The Press and Journal (Aberdeen) - Flybe is still involved in talks which could lead to it going head-to-head with British Airways (BA) on flights from Aberdeen into London Heathrow.
  
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• Did Croydon tram crash driver fall asleep at controls? 'Black out' claims as seven killed

  10-11-2016 01:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror - The 42-year-old driver of the tram was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after the speeding tram crashed yesterday morning
  
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• Death toll rises to seven after 'overspeed' tram crash

  10-11-2016 01:00 via railnews.co.uk
  RailNews.co.uk -SEVEN people have been killed and around 50 others injured after a tram overturned in south London early on 9 November. Some of the survivors were seriously hurt. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch said the tram was travelling at a 'significantly higher speed than is permitted'. The limit through the junction near Croydon town centre is understood to be 25km/h, and unconfirmed reports have suggested the driver could have blacked out.
  
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• Death toll climbs to seven in south London tram crash

  10-11-2016 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Driver arrested after vehicle overturns in Croydon, injuring dozens
  
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• Croydon tram derailment: Tram driver arrested as death toll rises to seven

  10-11-2016 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Police have confirmed the death toll in the Croydon tram crash has risen to seven people as a man was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
  
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• Croydon tram derailment: Sadiq Khan warns fatalities 'may well increase' after tram crash horror

  10-11-2016 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Sadiq Khan said the death toll in the Croydon tram derailment "may well increase" after he visited the crash scene in south London.
  
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• Croydon tram derailment: Driver arrested after seven killed and dozens injured

  10-11-2016 01:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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• Croydon tram crash: Driver held on suspicion on manslaughter

  10-11-2016 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - The driver of a tram that crashed, killing seven people, is held on suspicion of manslaughter.
  
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• Coventry dad calls for resignation of city education chief over planned cuts to school transport

  10-11-2016 01:00 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
  Other Regional Press -Wyken father Gavin Clifton hits out at the 'unsympathetic' handling of cuts which could affect hundreds of vulnerable youngsters
  
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• China backs Serbian railway modernisation

  10-11-2016 01:00 via railwaygazette.com
  
  Other News Sources - SERBIA: China Railway International, China Communications Construction Co and Serbias Minister of...
  
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• Air Freight posts stronger September growth

  10-11-2016 01:00 via ciltuk.org.uk
  Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport - GenevaThe International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets in September 2016 showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), rose 6.1 year-on-year. This was the fastest pace of growth since the disruption caused by the US West Coast seaports strike in February 2015. Freight capacity, measured in available freight tonne kilometers (AFTKs), increased 4.7 over the same period. Load factors
  
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• Act now on Huddersfield's bus gates or more shops will close

  10-11-2016 01:00 via examiner.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Angry traders urge Kirklees councillors to scrap traffic fines
  
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