Public Transport news

• Norfolk pub put at risk by ‘Britain’s most flooded road’

  21-03-2024 14:17
  
  Welney landlord fears business may not survive impact of increasingly lengthy spells of flooding on customer numbersDennis Birch estimates his pub loses about £3,000 a week when the road into the village of Welney is closed because of flooding – and this winter, it was closed for a record-breaking 89 days.Now labelled “the most flooded road in Britain”, Birch said he questions whether the 18th-century Lamb and Flag can survive the impact the flooding has on the number of
  
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• After 14 years of dead ends, here are three ways Labour can rejuvenate UK public transport | Jonn Elledge

  21-03-2024 11:00
  
  By truly finding solutions for ailing rail links and bus services, Labour can remind us who the party of the ‘red wall’ really isCreating a better public transport system will be vital for meeting Labour’s economic goals and its environmental ones; and it would make for a much nicer country, too. Getting there from here, though, will be a long and difficult journey. After 14 years of Tory mismanagement, with growth low and interest rates high, it may be harder to splash the cas
  
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