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• Claims government blocked low-traffic schemes were a fiction, papers suggest

  04-02-2024 13:24
  
  Exclusive: Low-traffic neighbourhood applications were rejected due to lack of ambition, not policy shiftGovernment claims that it blocked councils from installing low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) appear to have been a fiction, the Guardian has learned, in another apparent sign that Rishi Sunak’s “plan for drivers” is thus far mainly performative.After the revelation last month that the prime minister’s decision to prioritise driving over walking and cycling was prompted
  
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• Eurostar may cap services due to post-Brexit passport checks, warns station owner

  04-02-2024 13:17
  
  Facilities at St Pancras too ‘inadequate’ to process new checks without ‘hour-long queues’ at peak times, says operator HS1Eurostar could be forced to limit passenger numbers travelling from St Pancras each day under post-Brexit plans to bring in biometric border controls later this year, the owner of the station has warned.HS1, the owner and operator of the line and stations between London and the Channel tunnel, has raised concerns that planning for new Entry/Exit Syste
  
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