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• Your Chariot awaits: shuttle bus service gets green light in London

  29-01-2018 19:55
  Commuters will be able to pre-book seats on an app, with four routes being approved by TfLAn experimental shuttle bus service operated by Ford has been approved by London’s transport authorities.The vehicle manufacturer’s Chariot service, which has started in five US cities, will run four set routes and pick up passengers who pre-book via its app.Continue reading...
  
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• York Pullman takes over Stephensons of Easingwold

  29-01-2018 01:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  The York Press - YORK Pullman Bus Company has announced it has acquired the company name, trading rights, phone number, website, ongoing booking and forward diary of Stephensons of Easingwold.
  
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• Why cyclists should keep their cool in the face of dangerous driving

  29-01-2018 01:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - Anger is often the first response to a near miss on the road but there are better ways to hold drivers to accountNot long ago, while riding down Archway Road in north London, I confronted a truck driver who pulled out without warning. The road is a long steep hill where bikes and cars gather decent speed if traffic is minimal. I was riding at just over 20mph, but flowing with traffic in my lane and within the speed limit. When the truck pulled out only metres ahead, I only just ha
  
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• UK watchdog to investigate East Coast rail franchise decision

  29-01-2018 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - NAO to look in to withdrawal of Virgin-Stagecoach joint venture
  
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• Transport secretary faces questions over Office of Rail and Road chair's reappointment after recruitment process fails to find successor

  29-01-2018 01:00 via cityam.com
  City AM - The Department for Transport has faced questions over the reappointment of the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) chair, after his tenure was extended twice.
  
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• The true and fair questions that dog Carillion

  29-01-2018 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Echoes of the Savings mp; Loan crisis of the 1980s resonate with UK outsourcing group
  
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• TfL sounds alarm over public transport crowding from Heathrow expansion

  29-01-2018 01:00 via cityam.com
  City AM - Transport for London (TfL) has raised concerns over the impact Heathrow expansion will have on the capitals transport network, warning over significant crowding.
  
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• Sustained investment needed in regions railway network

  29-01-2018 01:00 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  Yorkshire Post - SIGNIFICANT and sustained investment is still needed in the Norths rail network, campaigners have said, after new analysis showed that more than 7,000 new train carriages are being introduced to Britains railways over the next three years.
  
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• Residents whose homes may be demolished for Heathrow expansion voice outrage

  29-01-2018 01:00 via sloughobserver.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - VILLAGERS living in a small road were this week coming to terms with the threat of having all their homes compulsorily purchased to make way for the proposed Heathrow expansion.
  
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• Parts of the Tube are so loud that commuters should wear hearing protection, experts warn

  29-01-2018 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  London Evening Standard - Travelling on the Tube can be "as loud going to a rock concert" and could be damaging people's hearing, a leading professor has said.
  
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• New £30m transport hub opens in Lincoln

  29-01-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - The scheme includes a bus station, 1,000-space multi-storey car park and improvements to the entrance to the city's railway station.
  
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• London Underground noise could damage hearing, says academic

  29-01-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - A BBC investigation reveals parts of the Underground network exceed noise safety levels.
  
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• Jock Lowe: There are major flaws in the scheme for a third runway

  29-01-2018 01:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  The Telegraph - Jock Lowes golf game is in terminal decline.The former British Airways Concorde pilot has had to sacrifice time on the fairway to spend thousands of hours promoting his vision of how Heathrow airport should be expanded.
  
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• East Coast rail franchise decision investigated by watchdog

  29-01-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - The NAO will examine why Virgin and Stagecoach were able to hand back the franchise early.
  
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• Discontent grows with Britains fractured rail network

  29-01-2018 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Privatisation was meant to deliver competition, innovation and improved service, but has it delivered?
  
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• Councillors to debate the bus subsidy budget next month Stagecoach service number 46

  29-01-2018 01:00 via dailyecho.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - COUNTY leaders have said they will work to save a vital bus route in Hampshire form the axe.
  
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• Comfort upgrade for travellers as 7,000 new carriages introduced

  29-01-2018 01:00 via heraldscotland.com
  The Herald - MORE than 7,000 new train carriages are being introduced to Britains railways, according to an industry body.
  
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• Carillion tried to 'wriggle out' of pension contributions

  29-01-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - The collapsed outsourcing giant avoided paying into the pension schemes, say MPs.
  
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• Carillion repeatedly cited cash flow problems as reason for not plugging huge pension black hole

  29-01-2018 01:00 via cityam.com
  City AM - Failed contracting giant Carillion has been accused of spending 10 years trying to wriggle out of plugging a mammoth hole in its pension schemes.
  
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• Carillion: MPs accuse pensions watchdog of failing to act

  29-01-2018 01:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - Regulator let firm defer payments to £1bn pension deficit but rack up debts to fund dividendsMPs have accused the Pensions Regulator of failing to act while Carillion racked up debts to pay dividends and executive bonuses, as the business built up a pension deficit that reached nearly £1bn by the time it collapsed this month.The House of Commons work and pensions committee, which is investigating Carillions collapse into compulsory liquidation two weeks ago, criticised
  
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• Angry businessman forced to pay £64 for second train ticket despite making shorter journey on same train

  29-01-2018 01:00 via mirror.co.uk
  The Mirror - Jonathan Worsley had initially bought a £19 advance ticket to travel from Nottingham to London St Pancras
  
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