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• Out now: Issue 304 of Passenger Transport

  11-01-2024 17:59 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Issue 304 of Passenger Transport is published on January 12.Contents include:
   
   LEAD STORY
  Stagecoach boss keen to lose ‘baggage’ of pastClaire Miles, who took over as CEO last October, says: ‘I am absolutely determined, going forward, we will show up as a different type of company’
   NEWS
  PR battle as West Yorks bus consultation closesBoth sides claim public support over bus reform proposals
  Stagecoach pledges new ways of workingClaire Miles has indicated
  
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• TfL considering installing fake steering wheels at front of DLR trains

  11-01-2024 17:03
  Sadiq Khan says cardboard steering wheels could bring to life driverless train experience for childrenIt is already the most in-demand spot on the London transport network, but plans to install stickers and cardboard steering wheels in driverless Docklands Light Railway (DLR) trains could intensify the scramble for its front seats.London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has said the trains, in which tens of thousands of Londoners have sat pretending to be the driver, could now include a steering wheel
  
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• Stagecoach pledges new ways of working

  11-01-2024 16:58 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Claire Miles has indicated a new approach to bus franchising and wantsto turn the page on ‘cultural and political baggage’ of Souter years
   Claire Miles is keen to cast aside Stagecoach’s “cultural and political baggage”
   The recently appointed chief executive of Stagecoach has expressed regret over the group’s confrontational approach to bus franchising in the past and indicated a lack of interest in meeting the group’s co-founders, Sir Brian
  
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• First plans Sheffield open access service

  11-01-2024 16:53 via passengertransport.co.uk
  New service aims to woo motorists to rail with faster journeys
   FirstGroup said the venture would form part of its Hull Trains open access business
   FirstGroup has revealed it has submitted an application to launch a new, faster open access rail service between London and Sheffield via the East Coast Main Line.
  It plans to operate two daily return journeys from London King’s Cross, calling at Retford, Worksop, Woodhouse and Sheffield. If approved, the proposed route will mark She
  
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• East Midlands Railway installs new interactive information screens

  11-01-2024 01:00 via railadvent.co.uk
  Rail Advent - East Midlands Railway (EMR) has made further progress in its million-pound project to install 166 new information screen across its network.
  
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