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• Ulez fines scandal: Italian police ‘illegally accessed’ thousands of EU drivers’ data

  08-02-2024 19:46
  
  Italy’s data protection body is investigating claims – denied by TfL – that police shared names and addresses with firm collecting penalties from driversThe names and addresses of thousands of EU drivers were unlawfully accessed by Italian police and shared with the company that collects Ulez penalties on behalf of Transport for London (TfL), investigators believe.The Italian data protection authority is investigating claims by Belgium’s government that an unnamed police
  
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• Out now: Issue 306 of Passenger Transport

  08-02-2024 17:00 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Issue 306 of Passenger Transport is published on February 9.Contents include:
   
   LEAD STORY
  ‘Tap-in, tap-out’ train travel trial for 2025Over 90 rail stations in the West Midlands and Greater Manchester will be included in ‘pay as you go’ schemes, moving towards a London-style system
   NEWS
  Mayoral precept to be invested in busesCambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority confirms plans for mayoral precept for bus funding and warns against short-ter
  
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• Why AI isn’t a silver bullet for buses

  08-02-2024 16:43 via passengertransport.co.uk
  The true measure of success of the latest transport technologies lies in the hands of the people who know the industry best
   Bus systems are influenced by a myriad of real-world factors
   BY Brian O’Rourke
  From self-driving cars to artificial intelligence (AI) – we’ve been through the tech hype cycles that were big news when they broke, and then just faded away or never came to pass. Only a few years ago articles were predicting that autonomous vehicles were the future
  
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• Ukrzaliznytsia and its ‘iron people’

  08-02-2024 16:43 via passengertransport.co.uk
  On a recent visit to Ukraine I was inspired to meet so many brave, committed and talented people, who believe in the power of rail
   This shell-damaged wagon was carrying civilian evacuees
   BY David Brown
  I recently had the honour of visiting Ukraine as part of an international delegation working with the Global Ukraine Rail Taskforce in partnershipwith the taskforce, the UK rail industry has so far raised over £106,000, providing more than 7,000 food parcels to help support Ukrai
  
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• ‘Tap-in, tap-out’ train travel trial for 2025

  08-02-2024 16:43 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Over 90 rail stations in the West Midlands and Greater Manchester will be included in ‘pay as you go’ schemes, moving towards a London-style system
   Stations across the West Midlands and selected routes in Greater Manchester are to participate in the trial
   Rail users in the West Midlands and Greater Manchester will benefit from simpler, more flexible travel from next year, under new pilot schemes confirmed last week.
  Stations across the West Midlands and selected routes in
  
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• Labour must extend ‘face up’ to HS2 – Steer

  08-02-2024 16:43 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Government has axed ‘the most critical section of the route’
   Concerns raised country will be left with a £67bn white elephant
   A key proponent of HS2 says that if Labour forms the next government it must extend the project to Crewe and Manchester or the country will be left with a £67bn white elephant.Jim Steer, is founder and director of high-speed rail consultancy Greengauge 21, and a well known advocate of high speed rail. Speaking last month to Christian Wo
  
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• Building a more diverse team

  08-02-2024 16:43 via passengertransport.co.uk
  At First Bus we are helping to futureproof the industry with a diverse apprenticeship programme
   Maddi Simmons joined First Bus’s engineering programme after her daily bus commute to and from college sparked an interest in the sector
   From the granite streets of Aberdeen right down to the Cornish coast, First Bus is proud to be one of the UK’s largest bus operators, carrying over a million customers a day up and down the country. Serving two-thirds of the UK’s 15 larg
  
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• ‘They wouldn’t be seen dead on a bus’

  08-02-2024 16:42 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  There are times in the bus sector when some organisations and individuals appear embarrassed to be associated with bus travel
   It’s rare to stumble across a business or sector where you get that disconcerting vibe that those at the helm would deep down rather not be doing what they’re doing and would prefer to be elsewhere. One example close to my heart is the English Cricket Board (ECB), a governing body that seems intent on reinventing our summer sport to the point whe
  
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• Let’s have some detail from Labour

  08-02-2024 16:42 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  While Labour’s intention to repeal the minimum service levels legislation is clear, not much else is. We’ve heard little of substance
   Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, the duopoly at the top of Labour
   I see that Germany has been hit by a wave of strikes by 90,000 transport workers affecting rail, bus and air services. Workers are demanding improved conditions, specifically reduced hours and longer holidays.For those who regularly hear the refrain: “Why can&rsq
  
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