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• Port of Dover warns of two-and-half-hour waits this weekend

  17-07-2023 17:10
  
  Post-Brexit passport checks will significantly lengthen delays as peak holiday season gets under wayCross-Channel ferry passengers will face waits of up to two and a half hours at Dover this weekend, the port has warned, as the peak holiday season gets under way.Post-Brexit passport checks will significantly lengthen delays as holidaymakers head for France, despite a number of mitigation measures put in place by the port. Continue reading...
  
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• Work on track to bring HS2 to Birmingham as transport secretary visits West Midlands

  17-07-2023 02:00 via expressandstar.com
  
  Wolverhampton Express and Star - Work to bring HS2 services to Birmingham is on track, it has been announced as workers prepare to carry out the UKs heaviest bridge drive to install a box structure beneath the West Coast Main Line near Lichfield.
  
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• What is TfL's Superloop bus in London? How it works

  17-07-2023 02:00 via harrowtimes.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Londoners will be well aware that the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been sharing plans to improve travel across the region.
  
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• Transport Secretary to visit the West Midlands to see progress of new HS2 railway station

  17-07-2023 02:00 via railadvent.co.uk
  
  Rail Advent - Australian Minister, Catherine King, is to visit Birmingham today with the UK's Transport Secretary, Mark Harper, to see progress on HS2's new Curzon Street station.
  
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• The WAU Cyber is a new e-bike set to shake up the electric vehicle industry

  17-07-2023 02:00 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
  Birmingham Mail - WAU is a small company on a big mission - to change the way we travel. Operating out of a small, unassuming unit in a Rowley Regis industrial park, the start-up have ambitions to become the Tesla the electric bike industry - and they think theyve got the product to do it.
  
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• The Guardian view on closing train station ticket offices: the wrong route Editorial

  17-07-2023 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Modernisation does not have to mean closures and cuts. The government and train companies should think again.
  In 1963, as the cost-cutting axe fell on railway branch lines across the country, the popular songwriters Flanders and Swann mourned their loss in elegiac verse: No one departs, no one arrives / From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives / Theyve all passed out of our lives.
  
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• Stonehenge Tunnel given green light by government

  17-07-2023 02:00 via geplus.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - The government has approved National Highways £1.7bn scheme to construct a road tunnel past Stonehenge in Wiltshire.
  
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• Scottish Government accused of 'kicking the can down the road' on public transport fares review

  17-07-2023 02:00 via dailyrecord.co.uk
  
  Daily Record - The number of Scots using public transport plummeted during the coronavirus pandemic with some services axed as a result.
  
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• Ryanair Italy warning as dozens of flights cancelled and more strikes planned

  17-07-2023 02:00 via leeds-live.co.uk
  
  Leeds Live - The disruption has been caused by striking transport workers in Italy
  
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• Rail strikes: Lynch says government hasnt spoken to RMT since January

  17-07-2023 02:00 via cityam.com
  
  City AM - Rail strike misery looks set to continue for commuters after Mick Lynch, the RMTs general secretary, said the government had not spoken to him about finding a resolution since the start of the year.
  
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• Put the HS2 white elephant to sleep, once and for all. subscription

  17-07-2023 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  
  The Telegraph - There is simply no justification plunging billions of taxpayer funds into this shambles of a project
  
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• Passenger's anger over 'bendy and unsafe' steps in Holey railway station

  17-07-2023 02:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Train company Northern has responded to rail passenger's complaint about an unsafe staircase
  
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• Opinion: Coach and bus have wide-ranging societal impact

  17-07-2023 02:00 via route-one.net
  
  Route One (Bus and Coach) - The industry is about much more than moving people from A to B, highlights CPT CEO Graham Vidler
  
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• Making the most of ageing road network will be priority for National Highways in RIS3

  17-07-2023 02:00 via newcivilengineer.com
  
  New Civil Engineer - National Highways will look to make the most of its existing network and ageing infrastructure as a priority in its upcoming Road Investment Strategy 3 (RIS3), 2025-2030.
  
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• Mace boss rips into 'absolutely shameful' decision to mothball HS2 Euston

  17-07-2023 02:00 via building.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - Mark Reynolds says government told firms one thing and then did opposite with sneaky announcement
  
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• London City Airport appeals as more weekend flights rejected

  17-07-2023 02:00 via ilfordrecorder.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - London City Airport is launching an appeal after a council blocked its plans to expand its flying time on Saturday afternoons following hundreds of objections from local residents.
  
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• I tried the futuristic e-bike made in Birmingham that's going to 'change the future of transport'

  17-07-2023 02:00 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
  Birmingham Mail - The WAU Cyber is a new e-bike set to shake up the electric vehicle industry
  
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• Hydrogen the only option for Metrobus Fastway ZE

  17-07-2023 02:00 via route-one.net
  
  Route One (Bus and Coach) - Hydrogen fuel cell-electric remains the most realistic zero-emission technology for usage cases requiring very high mileage and utilisation capabilities. That is the verdict from the Go-Ahead Group after its Metrobus subsidiary launched 20 Wrightbus GB Kite Hydroliner single-deckers on 29 June.
  
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• HS2 leaves Midlands communities with 'hostility' and mixed feeling

  17-07-2023 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - HS2's rising costs and impact on the countryside continue to prompt accounts of anxiety, "open hostility" and also mixed feeling among nearby West Midlands communities.
  
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• How the built environment sector can help transform wider UK skills master planning

  17-07-2023 02:00 via newcivilengineer.com
  
  New Civil Engineer - The topic of workforce skills planning is rarely out of the media headlines these days and invariably discussions focus on the negative aspects of how we arent collectively getting this right in the UK. Against this backdrop, we wanted to change the narrative and highlight a key area of untapped potential for skills master planning, linked to the built environment, but with a significant impact to transform the UKs talent pipeline across the board.
  
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• How can electric bus chargers service other sectors?

  17-07-2023 02:00 via route-one.net
  
  Route One (Bus and Coach) - Over 2,000 battery-electric buses are in service today in the UK, according to recent Zemo Partnership analysis. That means there are over 2,000 buses worth of chargers sitting largely idle for long periods of the day in depots around the country, waiting to be plugged in when the buses return at the end of service.
  
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• Glasgow bus row exposes Scottish transport failings

  17-07-2023 02:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  The Herald - IT has been another spell of controversy for Scotland's transport network, but in perhaps a surprising turn of events, not all the headlines have been made by the countrys troubled ferry service.
  
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• Gatwick boss says airport is prepped to avoid chaos despite strikes and cancellations

  17-07-2023 02:00 via cityam.com
  
  City AM - Gatwicks boss has said that the airport is not expecting further flight cancellations over the busy summer season.
  
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• Fuel retailers urged to back government price sharing scheme

  17-07-2023 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - The energy secretary is asking supermarkets and petrol stations to publish prices to aid competition.
  
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• First steel erected at Teesside Airport business park which is set to create thousands of jobs

  17-07-2023 02:00 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - The first steel on a £200m business park is now in place as construction of a vital new link road to the site also nears completion.
  
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• First ever 3D-printed concrete headwall trialled on A30 upgrade scheme

  17-07-2023 02:00 via newcivilengineer.com
  
  New Civil Engineer - Costain and National Highways have created a 3D-printed concrete headwall to be trialled as part of the construction process of the A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross upgrade in Cornwall.
  
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• First complete tunnel on HS2 project to feature in TV documentary

  17-07-2023 02:00 via mediacentre.hs2.org.uk
  
  Other News Sources - Journalist, broadcaster and former politician Michael Portillo has visited the first completed tunnel on the HS2 project in Warwickshire as part of his popular TV travel series.
  
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• Electric bus trialled in Jersey and Guernsey

  17-07-2023 02:00 via itv.com
  
  ITV News - Islanders are being asked to give feedback on a new electric bus on trial.
  
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• Bristol's litter police targeting bus and train passengers who 'put down cups' at stations

  17-07-2023 02:00 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Bristol Live - City council's environmental enforcement officers hand out £100 spot fines for dropping rubbish - but there is a lack of bins at the major transport hubs
  
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• Avanti West Coast launches real-time interactive train map

  17-07-2023 02:00 via railwaygazette.com
  
  Railway Gazette - UK: Technology company Signalbox has developed a customised interactive live map for Avanti West Coasts website which enables passengers to track their train in real-time.
  
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• Airlines in flight chaos may be forced to offer customers cash

  17-07-2023 02:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  
  This is Money- A class action aims to make airlines automatically contact and offer compensation to customers whose journeys were affected.
  
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• 70 of UK's most popular domestic flights 'are faster and cheaper by train'

  17-07-2023 02:00 via uk.news.yahoo.com
  
  Other News Sources - Most of the nations most popular domestic flights and some short-haul European destinations could be completed cheaper and faster by train, according to a new report.
  
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• Airport expansion does not boost UK growth or productivity – report

  17-07-2023 01:01
  
  Researchers argue that industry claims about benefits of more flights should be taken with pinch of saltClaims that airport expansion will help grow the UK economy should be treated with scepticism, according to a report that finds air travel does not increase productivity or growth.Declining business travel and lower wages in aviation undermine claims made by the industry for the value of increased air connections, say researchers at the New Economics Foundation. Continue reading...
  
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