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• GMB accused of ‘bullyboy tactics’ in alleged attempt to take over TSSA

  04-04-2024 20:29
  
  Maryam Eslamdoust claims GMB is using in-house agreement to block staff recruitmentOne of Labour’s biggest union backers has been accused of employing “bullyboy tactics” in an alleged attempt to take over a smaller rail union and seize control of its assets.Maryam Eslamdoust, the left-leaning general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA), claims that the GMB union is using an in-house agreement to block staff recruitment and take control of the wh
  
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• Rail passengers face rolling strikes but London Underground action called off

  04-04-2024 16:16
  
  Aslef members start three days of 24-hour strikes from Friday but tube driver action cancelledRail passengers are bracing for travel disruption as train drivers bring some routes on the national network to a halt in a wave of strikes, but two days of similar action on the London Underground have been called off.On Friday, members of the union Aslef start the first of three 24-hour strikes that will affect 16 rail operating companies in England as part of its 20-month dispute over pay. Continue r
  
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• Out now: Issue 310 of Passenger Transport

  04-04-2024 16:02 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Issue 310 of Passenger Transport is published on April 5.Contents include:
   
   LEAD STORY
  Metroline wins £422m Bee Network growthLondon subsidiary of Singapore-based ComfortDelGro has won four Tranche 3 bus franchises in Greater Manchester, boosting its size by 30%
   NEWS
  London bus operator wins three of the four large franchises in the third and final round of bidding for Greater Manchester’s new Bee Network
  Government reveals winners of ZEBRA 2West Sussex wins largest
  
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• Rail re-nationalisation is ‘tragedy’ – Whitehorn

  04-04-2024 15:48 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Former Virgin executive Will Whitehorn tells Lunch with Leon podcast why he believes that Britain’s railway is ‘back in a mode of managed decline’
  Whitehorn says there is no doubt that Virgin’s tenure of the West Coast route was a success
  Will Whitehorn, a close colleague of Sir Richard Branson throughout the nineties and much of the noughties, has warned that Britain’s railway will suffer from managed decline and a lack of innovation under public control.
  Whitehorn
  
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• Pigs don’t fly but taxis are taking off

  04-04-2024 15:48 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  There’s nothing new about the concept of avoiding traffic by travelling overhead, but flying taxis could take this to another level
   What impact will air taxis have?
   Congestion: here is an issue to unite everyone from the extreme petrol heads through to the greenest environmentalist.Nobody benefits from this, not the motorists sitting alone in their far too large SUVs, nor the passengers on a bus boxed in by cars and vans going nowhere. And certainly not the economy. Dat
  
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• Metroline wins £422m Bee Network growth

  04-04-2024 15:48 via passengertransport.co.uk
  London subsidiary of Singapore-based ComfortDelGro has won four Tranche 3 bus franchises in Greater Manchester, boosting its size by 30%
   Metroline’s contracts are worth £422m and comprise a total of 232 services, 420 buses and over 1,350 employees
   Metroline has been revealed as the big winner in the third and final round of Greater Manchester Bee Network contracts. The company, which is a subsidiary of Singapore-owned ComfortDelGro, has been awarded contracts to operate f
  
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• Survey shines light on customer views

  04-04-2024 15:47 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  The Your Bus Journey survey of bus users by Transport Focus provides insights and a league table we should all care about
  Levels of bus users satisfaction were high in East Yorkshire
   Who was surprised by the Transport Focus ‘Your Bus Journey’ scores? I certainly wasn’t and felt faintly reassured by the results as it proved the merits of a mix of my many mystery shops across the UK’s bus network, alongside gut instinct and a glimpse into some of the internal
  
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• Revolutionising suburban transport

  04-04-2024 15:47 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  The Grand Paris Express is potentially the most important and transformational urban mobility project underway in Europe
   The Grand Paris Express transport project
   I was in Paris, France for the Autonomy Mobility World Expo conference late last month. As an addition to the conference I was able to book a guided visit to the project exhibition exploring the Grand Paris Express transport project.
  This is potentially the most important and transformational urban mobility project
  
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• Rail passengers face rolling strikes but action on London Underground called off

  04-04-2024 14:39
  
  Aslef members start three days of 24-hour strikes from Friday but tube driver action cancelledRail passengers are bracing for travel disruption as train drivers bring some routes on the national network to a halt in a wave of strikes, but two days of similar action on the London Underground have been called off.Members of Aslef start the first of three 24-hour strikeson Friday, affecting 16 rail operating companies as part of its 20-month dispute over pay. Continue reading...
  
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• Rail and London Underground passengers face strike disruption

  04-04-2024 13:14
  
  Aslef starts three days of rolling 24-hour strikes from Friday, with action by tube drivers on MondayPassengers are facing more travel disruption as some services on the national rail network and the London Underground will grind to a halt as the next wave of driver strikes gets under way.On Friday, Aslef members start three days of rolling 24-hour strikes across the rail network, affecting 16 rail operating companies as part of its 20-month dispute over pay. This will happen alongside a separat
  
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• Liquid restrictions at UK airports to remain in place until June 2025

  04-04-2024 01:01
  
  Travellers will have to wait another year for 100ml limit to be lifted after government extends deadline for new scannersHolidaymakers will continue to face limits on the amount of liquid they can carry on flights out of the UK this summer after the government extended the deadline for airports to install new security scanners by a year.The Department for Transport had previously set a target for the introduction of 3D scanners in all UK airports by 1 June, but this has now been extended by 12 m
  
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