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• Accessibility and ownership of the UK’s railways | Letters

  27-01-2017 19:52
  
  Re the letter from Charles Horton of Govia Thameslink Railway (21 January), removing the guarantee of “turn up and go” travel at 33 stations and formalising the need for advance booking all over the network means taking a significant step back for rail accessibility. It even goes against the grain of the rail industry itself, which is heading steadily towards the target of making all vehicles fully accessible by 1 January 2020. He should elaborate on exactly what “clear sy
  
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• Man who pushed Polish man on to tube tracks jailed for 10 years

  27-01-2017 19:47
  
  England football fan said he mistook the Polish builder for a Russian, and claimed he was acting like he ‘owned the tube’An English football hooligan has been jailed for 10 years, after pushing a Polish builder on to live tube tracks half a minute before a train arrived.Christopher Cole, 32, was angry at Russian fans’ behaviour during Euro 2016 and did not want England to be seen as “wusses”, a court heard. Continue reading...
  
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• London tube strikes planned for February over station staffing

  27-01-2017 17:11
  
  RMT union calls two walkouts likely to effectively shut down central London underground services after talks at Acas failMore tube strikes have been called for early February in a dispute over staffing levels on London Underground stations. The RMT union has called two strikes likely to effectively shut down the tube in central London over the morning rush hour of Monday 6 February and the evening peak the next day, with reduced services and disruption likely from Sunday until Tuesday night. Con
  
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• Out now: Issue 152 of Passenger Transport

  27-01-2017 15:05 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Issue 152 of Passenger Transport is published on January 27
  Contents include:
    
  LEAD STORY‘Economy not to blame for falling bus growth’
  Downbeat assessment of UK’s regional bus market concludes that weak bus usage trends have existed for many years, and are unlikely to end soon
   
  NEWS
  ‘Bus use decline caused by changing behaviour’
  Lacklustre regional bus revenues have been wrongly attributed to economic growth, says JP Morgan, but the root cause
  
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• ‘Economy not to blame for falling bus growth’

  27-01-2017 14:27 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Downbeat assessment of UK’s regional bus market concludes that weak bus usage trends have existed for many years, and are unlikely to end soon
   
  Investing in buses: Stagecoach North East is to launch a new service between Sunderland and Newcastle next week
   
  Regional bus revenue growth at the UK’s largest operators will remain weak for the foreseeable future, a gloomy research paper from JP Morgan has concluded.
  The paper says the slowdown in UK bus revenue trends is not du
  
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• Crossrail denies delivery date risk

  27-01-2017 14:22 via passengertransport.co.uk
  A number of contractors are understood to be requesting additional payments
    
  Crossrail Ltd has denied that negotiations with contractors fitting signalling and electrical systems and facilities on the new cross-London rail route are putting on-time delivery of the £14.8bn scheme at risk.It is understood that a number of contractors have told Crossrail they would need to bring in additional staff because its procurement arrangements did not allow sufficient time to complete work
  
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• Southern: Bring back the red lampposts

  27-01-2017 14:12 via passengertransport.co.uk
  There’s no way back for Southern, and DOO is not the problem. Why not gradually recreate the much missed Network Southeast?
   
  Network SouthEast: much admired and much missed
   
  ASLEF calling off this week’s three day drivers’ strike on Southern to allow for meaningful talks on DOO (driver only operation) is hugely welcome, but there’s much scepticism among Sussex travellers about whether things will revert to normal any time soon. Southern once scored highly amo
  
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• Leave the office and offer a ‘helping hand’

  27-01-2017 14:02 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Professionalism isn’t imperiously poncing around in a suit, it’sunderstanding your product, your customers and your staff
   
  Stagecoach chairman Sir Brian Souter could often be found behind the wheel of a bus, even when he was the group’s chief executive
   
  You would have thought it was rather important to have a reasonable knowledge of the product or products you are offering to your customers, and for some staff a fairly comprehensive knowledge is a must. Can you ima
  
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• Will post-Brexit Britain have the right industrial strategy skills? Join the debate

  27-01-2017 01:01
  
  On Thursday 30 March, in Birmingham’s Council House, the Guardian will host an in-depth debate about infrastructure skills. Join our free seminarThe government’s industrial strategy, announced by the prime minister on 23 January, promises sector deals, more investment in infrastructure and, crucially, a new system of technical education.Related: Theresa May’s industrial plan signals shift to more state interventionRelated: Small towns, big plans: how better transport can boost
  
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• Whats the heaviest thing youve carried by bicycle?

  27-01-2017 01:00 via eta.co.uk
  
  Green Miscellany - Whats the heaviest thing youve carried on a bicycle? With the exception of child seats, few people here in Britain use bicycles as a way of carrying stuff. Elsewhere, cyclists have become expert at balancing or lashing cargo to a standard bike. The addition of luggage racks fore and aft transforms it into a veritable workhorse and specialist designs can The post Whats the heaviest thing youve carried by bicycle? appeared first on ETA.
  
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• What are the options for strike-hit Southern rail?

  27-01-2017 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Some have claimed the franchise could be stripped from Govia Thameslink
  
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• VIEW FROM THE SENEDD: By-Pass will benefit all - Andrew RT Davies AM

  27-01-2017 01:00 via barryanddistrictnews.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - ... One thing I hope we can make some good progress on this year is the campaign for a Dinas Powys By-Pass, which has been ongoing for some time.
  
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• Uber grabs half of US ground transport spend

  27-01-2017 01:00 via buyingbusinesstravel.com
  Buying Business Travel - Study shows Uber now accounts for 52 of the US ground transport market among business travellers
  
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• Tube strike on Central and Waterloo and City lines ends

  27-01-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A 24-hour strike on two London Underground lines came has come to an end, but commuters are warned of continued disruption into the night.
  
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• Troubled Southern Rail 'may return to public ownership' as Tory MPs back government takeover

  27-01-2017 01:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror - Ministers are reportedly considering hauling the troubled service back into public ownership after months of disruption and misery for 300,000 commuters
  
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• The Long Read: Tragedy and farce - rail, rail everywhere

  27-01-2017 01:00 via transport-network.co.uk
  Other News Sources - Former chancellor George Osborne will no doubt be best remembered for his policy of austerity; however it was the nations flagging productivity that he called the challenge of our time.
  
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• Ryanair to launch Liverpool John Lennon-Milan route

  27-01-2017 01:00 via buyingbusinesstravel.com
  Buying Business Travel - Ryanair is to launch a new route from Liverpool John Lennon to Milan Malpensa.The three-times weekly service will start in October and is part of its winter 2017 schedule.
  
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• Russias S7 Airlines traffic up 24 in 2016

  27-01-2017 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- Russias S7 Airlines carried 13.15 million passengers in 2016, up 24 year-over-year (YOY).read more
  
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• Over 80 train cancellations after electric wire damage near London blocks main line

  27-01-2017 01:00 via eadt.co.uk
  
  East Anglian Daily Times - Rail commuters face a morning of travel misery in the region after damage to overhead electric wires near London blocked the main line.
  
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• New strategy needed to tackle digital deserts on rail routes

  27-01-2017 01:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  
  Rail Technology Magazine - RTMs David Stevenson looks at the perennial issue of poor mobile coverage on the railways, and how the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) wants the problem to be tackled.
  
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• Minister insists Leeds transport will get better

  27-01-2017 01:00 via yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire Evening Post - MILLIONS OF POUNDS set to be invested in Leeds transport will make a real difference despite the scrapping of the citys trolleybus scheme, a senior minister has claimed.
  
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• Longer semi-trailer trial demonstrates safety and environmental benefits, says FTA

  27-01-2017 01:00 via fta.co.uk
  Other News Sources - The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the Department for Transport (DfT)s announcement today (26 January 2017) that it will be ...
  
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• London Waterloo platform closures: Summer disruption warning

  27-01-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Network Rail advises passengers to stay away from London Waterloo during summer redevelopment work.
  
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• Lewisham derailment to disrupt Southeastern commuters for days

  27-01-2017 01:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  
  Rail Technology Magazine - Southeastern services are set to be disrupted for the rest of the week following the partial derailing of a freight train in Lewisham, south east London. Network Rail has confirmed that a 50-metre stretch of railway is being mp;ldquo;completely rebuiltmp;rdquo; round-the-clock by engineers after the...
  
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• HS2 reveals eight South Yorkshire parkway station proposal sites

  27-01-2017 01:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  
  Rail Technology Magazine - HS2 Ltd has revealed a shortlist of eight sites for its potential parkway station to serve South Yorkshire. The eight sites are situated across rural locations in Doncaster, Rotherham and Wakefield, leading to further criticism that HS2 could be a detriment rather than a benefit to certain parts...
  
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• Grayling: We will fix not good enough Yorkshire transport

  27-01-2017 01:00 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire Post - SHIFTING economic power North will be the key to Britain prospering when it leaves the European Union, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said tonight. The Minister admitted transport in Yorkshire was not nearly good enough but insisted the Government was committed to putting it right.
  
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• Ford hourly US workers to get $9,000 profit-share bonus

  27-01-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - US car giant Ford makes its second-best profit to date, giving US workers a chunky salary boost.
  
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• Exclusive: Welsh minister moots code of practice for bus stops

  27-01-2017 01:00 via transport-network.co.uk
  Other News Sources - Welsh infrastructure secretary Ken Skates has acknowledged the variable quality of the countrys bus stops and suggested that local authorities could help produce a code of practice.
  
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• Edinburgh tram inquiry: Public hearings to start in September

  27-01-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - The inquiry into the Edinburgh trams project will begin public hearings in September.
  
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• DfT told to stop 'ducking' Southern contract issue and make up its mind

  27-01-2017 01:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  
  Rail Technology Magazine - The Transport Select Committee has urged the DfT to hurry up in deciding whether Southern is failing to run adequate services, arguing that ministers cannot mp;ldquo;duckmp;rdquo; the issue further and should come to a conclusion urgently. But rail minister Paul Maynard has claimed that the DfT...
  
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• Deals this week: Thales, Alstom, Bombardier Transportation

  27-01-2017 01:00 via railway-technology.com
  Other News Sources - As part of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) extension in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China Steel Corporation has appointed Thales for the implementation of a signalling system.
  
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• Council awarded £85k to develop active travel projects in Queensferry and Deeside Industrial Park

  27-01-2017 01:00 via deeside.com
  
  Other Regional Press - Flintshire Council has been awarded £85,000 to help it develop bus and active travel projects along the B5129 at Queensferry and to Deeside Industrial Park in order to improve transport links to key employment sites.
  
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• Chirk councillor joins fight for new trains on Wales rail network

  27-01-2017 01:00 via bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - THERE is an urgent need for new trains on Waless rail network, a committee of MPs has said.
  
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• CH2M European MD appointed new HS2 chief executive

  27-01-2017 01:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  
  Rail Technology Magazine - Mark Thurston, European managing director for the global engineering company CH2M, has been appointed as the new chief executive of HS2. The post has been filled in by the former HS2 development director Roy Hill for almost three months since Simon Kirby left HS2 to become Rolls Roycemp;rsquo;s...
  
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• Arriva Trains Wales to roll out free Wi-Fi across its services

  27-01-2017 01:00 via rhyljournal.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - RAIL passengers from Abergele, Rhyl and Prestatyn will soon be able to take advantage of free wi-fi and browse on board.
  
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• Alastair Dalton: Is running the ScotRail Alliance a poisoned chalice?

  27-01-2017 01:00 via scotsman.com
  
  The Scotsman - Delays for ScotRail passengers may now be easing slightly, but theres a deep malaise on Scotlands railways.
  
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• 64 million government funding to encourage more cycling and walking to work

  27-01-2017 01:00 via ciltuk.org.uk
  Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport - Thousands more people will be encouraged to cycle and walk to work thanks to a £64 million government investment, Transport Minister Andrew Jones has announced. The funding will support local projects over 3 years from 2017 to 2020 and form part of a wider government package of more than £300 million to boost walking and cycling during the current parliament. By 2040 the government aims to make this part of everyday life and walking an
  
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