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• Virgin season ticket means I can reserve a seat, so why am I forced to stand?

  16-01-2017 08:00
  
  I pay almost £8,000 a year and don’t understand how a train operator can be so incompetentI hold an annual rail season ticket from Spalding to London (via Peterborough) with Virgin Trains East Coast. Last year this cost £7,816, excluding underground travel. In theory, season ticket holders can reserve seats up to 12 weeks in advance, for which they fill in a spreadsheet and send to Virgin. However, this department appears to be only available via email. It is supposed to respon
  
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• Unions and tube chiefs to hold talks aimed at averting further strikes

  16-01-2017 07:00
  
  RMT and TSSA officials will meet London Underground as part of efforts to resolve row over job cuts and ticket office closuresTalks aimed at averting further London Underground strikes in a continuing dispute over job losses and ticket office closures are to be held.Officials from the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union and Transport Salaried Staffs Association will meet LU through conciliation service Acas on Monday. Members of the two unions staged a 24-hour walkout last week, during whic
  
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• This is the plan to double the amount of cyclists using Cardiff's roads

  16-01-2017 01:00 via walesonline.co.uk
  
  Wales Online -The city council have drawn up a new strategy to boost numbers of people who use their bikes
  
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• The commuters who enjoy being creative with their time

  16-01-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - The average UK commuter spends nearly an hour a day travelling - and 3.7 million are en route for more than two hours, with the longest journey times spent on trains.
  
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• Swansea-Shrewsbury Heart of Wales Line walking route plan

  16-01-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Plans for a new long-distance walking route from south Wales to Shropshire following the Heart of Wales rail line is unveiled.
  
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• Strike-hit Govia Thameslink seeks Southern train drivers

  16-01-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Strike-hit Govia Thameslink renews a recruitment campaign to hire trainee drivers in a bid to reduce Southern rail disruption.
  
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• Southern Railway recruitment campaign branded 'nonsense' by drivers' union

  16-01-2017 01:00 via theargus.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources -Plans to recruit a pool of 200
  
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• North East's road network a 'backwater' in terms of Goverment investment, MPs say

  16-01-2017 01:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Newcastle Evening Chronicle - North East MPs are backing ChronicleLive's calls for better investment on the A19
  
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• MP Cheryl Gillan to HS2 Ltd: 'Take only the land you need'

  16-01-2017 01:00 via mix96.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - MP for Chesham and Amersham Cheryl Gillan has called on HS2 Ltd to amend legislation so that they can't make compulsory purchaes of land for regeneration or development.
  
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• Mind the closing doors - echoes of Thatcher in railway battle leftright 3/3leftright

  16-01-2017 01:00 via uk.reuters.com
  
  Reuters News - Rona Jeff loved her job as a PR consultant for an education charity in central London. But last month she quit. Her train commute had become so unbearable it was ruining her health.
  
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• Militant rail union fights new trains that might have saved girl, 16, who died after falling into gap between carriage and platform

  16-01-2017 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - Georgia Varley (pictured) fell between a train and the platform at Liverpool's James Street station. Rail bosses claim that new trains, with no guard, could help prevent a similar tragedy.
  
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• Look: Are these the worst Coventry cars ever made?

  16-01-2017 01:00 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
  Other Regional Press -The city has produced some amazing vehicles, but it has also produced some turkeys too
  
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• Keith Prince: Mayor Khans failings are thwarting prospects for rail devolution

  16-01-2017 01:00 via conservativehome.com
  Conservative Party - Keith Prince is a member of the London Assembly.
  
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• How BlaBlaCar created a global transport network

  16-01-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A rail strike is a strange time to realise that your start-up is going to be a success but that was the moment that the founders of BlaBlaCar knew that their company was going to take off.
  
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• Here's how much the new DVLA car tax rules will cost you

  16-01-2017 01:00 via walesonline.co.uk
  
  Wales Online - Some car models will cost significantly more to tax each year
  
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• Gwynedd taxi drivers left 'too scared' to drive over medical certificate fears

  16-01-2017 01:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  
  Daily Post (North Wales) -Caernarfon taxi firm boss says licensed drivers are afraid of being suspended over expired medical documents despite having a valid licence
  
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• Grayling challenged over "less than £1 per head" for cycling after he downgrades bike use

  16-01-2017 01:00 via transportxtra.com
  
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• Fifty Tory MPs demand tougher strike laws amid fury over action crippling Southern Rail... but union boss says it would just BREAK them

  16-01-2017 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - A union boss has warned that his members will just flout strike laws if they are toughened in a bid to prevent arepeat of the misery endured by Southern Rail passengers.
  
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• End of the (railway) line? The Canadian pension giants that own HS1 have brought in Bank of America to explore a £3.6bn potential sale

  16-01-2017 01:00 via cityam.com
  
  City AM - The two Canadian pension giants that own the high-speed railway connecting London to the Channel Tunnel have appointed a US investment bank to explore a sale of the line.
  
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• Driverless cars heading for a jam, says transit group

  16-01-2017 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Promotion of private vehicles over buses and trains expected to make congestion worse
  
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• Drawing reveals new details of Toton HS2 station plans

  16-01-2017 01:00 via ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - The Government has released a new image showing an artists impression of what the proposed HS2 East Midlands hub at Toton will look like.
  
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• Djibouti-Ethiopia railway lifts Africa trade hopes

  16-01-2017 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Addis Ababa line to the sea hailed as first step in tapping vast commercial potential
  
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• Design of zig zag footpath at Winchester Train Station criticised

  16-01-2017 01:00 via hampshirechronicle.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources -Liberal Democrat city councillors have slammed the poor design of the intended path through the new car park at Winchester Train Station
  
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• Child car seats: The law is changing again - this is what you need to know

  16-01-2017 01:00 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
  Other Regional Press - New stricter rules are coming into force in 2017 limiting the use of backless booster seats for older children.
  
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• Calls for urgent road safety measures on A487 in Gwynedd

  16-01-2017 01:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  
  Daily Post (North Wales) -A councillor wants a crossing to be installed at a busy junction in Penrhyndeudraeth where two children were involved in accidents
  
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• Balfour Beatty Vinci has appointed Mark Cutler managing director of its HS2 joint venture.

  16-01-2017 01:00 via theconstructionindex.co.uk
  Other News Sources - Mark Cutler takes over from Peter Anderson who has left Balfour Beatty to join Murphy.
  
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