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• Wycombe bus lane camera still not live after council spends £500k on new technology

  09-04-2025 02:00 via bucksfreepress.co.uk
  
  Bucks Free Press - A camera designed to catch people driving in a High Wycombe bus lane has still not been turned on, it can be revealed.
  
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• Wrexham city centre car ban gets 'rat run' verdict and Rhyl warning

  09-04-2025 02:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  
  Daily Post (North Wales) - The ban will be enforced by rise and fall bollards as well as ANPR cameras
  
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• US tariffs cause car import pile-up at American ports

  09-04-2025 02:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Executive warns situation could become mp;#145;quite uglymp;#146; in a few weeks as carmakers park vehicles amid levy uncertainty
  
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• Trenitalia is Eurostar?s most serious rival yet

  09-04-2025 02:00 via inews.co.uk
  
  i News - For the past 30 years, Eurostar has been sitting pretty. The only operator of long-distance, high-speed trains through the Channel Tunnel, it has been able to do largely as it pleases. In recent years that has meant fare hikes and mothballing stops at Ebbsfleet, Ashford and Calais.
  
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• Trenitalia is Eurostar's most serious rival yet

  09-04-2025 02:00 via inews.co.uk
  
  i News - For the past 30 years, Eurostar has been sitting pretty. The only operator of long-distance, high-speed trains through the Channel Tunnel, it has been able to do largely as it pleases. In recent years that has meant fare hikes and mothballing stops at Ebbsfleet, Ashford and Calais.
  
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• Transport Action Network set to contest government?s national policy for roads infrastructure

  09-04-2025 02:00 via leighday.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - The campaign group Transport Action Network (TAN) will have its judicial review challenge against the government?s National Networks National Policy Statement (NNNPS) heard at the High Court on Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 April 2025.
  
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• The 14-mile Thames crossing delayed by 66 miles of paperwork subscription

  09-04-2025 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  The Telegraph - Decades of dithering and bureaucracy within Britain?s broken infrastructure system has left vital projects stuck in purgatory
  
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• Shipping groups clash over regulatory cost of using LNG to power vessels

  09-04-2025 02:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Rules to cut emissions have for years divided some of the worldmp;#146;s largest economies
  
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• 'Pathetic' lack of trains and overcrowding hampering spectacular Highland ScotRail line

  09-04-2025 02:00 via scotsman.com
  Other News Sources - A "pathetic" lack of trains, unreliable services and overcrowded key stations are hampering the world-renowned West Highland lines despite their booming passenger numbers, a transport chief has complained.
  
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• Numbers of Welsh bus users lag behind England

  09-04-2025 02:00 via bbc.com
  
  BBC News - Wales has seen the slowest post-Covid recovery in numbers of passengers returning to the bus network.
  
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• New screens at Manchester Airport aimed at helping BSL users

  09-04-2025 02:00 via theboltonnews.co.uk
  
  Bolton News - Screens at Manchester Airport now have British Sign Language (BSL) information.
  
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• New Passenger Assistance Points installed at 40 Northern stations

  09-04-2025 02:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus - New facilities, designed to give disabled customers the confidence to travel by train, have been installed at dozens of stations across the North of England.
  
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• Network Rail boss promises ?smoother? CP7 funding flow

  09-04-2025 02:00 via constructionnews.co.uk
  
  Construction News - Network Rail chief executive Sir Andrew Haines has said he expects the second year of the body?s ?45bn five-year funding cycle will go ?more smoothly?. It comes after industry figures expressed dissatisfaction at the speed in which rail work was flowing through to suppliers. Earlier?
  
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• Network Rail boss promises 'smoother' CP7 funding flow

  09-04-2025 02:00 via constructionnews.co.uk
  
  Construction News - Network Rail chief executive Sir Andrew Haines has said he expects the second year of the bodymp;#39;s mp;pound;45bn five-year funding cycle will go mp;#39;more smoothlymp;#39;. It comes after industry figures expressed dissatisfaction at the speed in which rail work was flowing through to suppliers.
  
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• MPs call for Croydon rail scheme to be reviewed

  09-04-2025 02:00 via bbc.com
  
  BBC News - MPs want two railway stations to be upgraded as part of the Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme.
  
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• Lord Hendy responds to MPs over rail reform consultation after they ask for clarity

  09-04-2025 02:00 via railmagazine.com
  
  Rail Magazine - Lord Hendy has said accessibility, freight and the environment remain key priorities for the government.
  
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• Level boarding included in rail innovation funding competition

  09-04-2025 02:00 via railwaygazette.com
  
  Railway Gazette - UK: Innovate UK has opened the latest calls for grant funding proposals under the First of a Kind programme, which supports the demonstration of innovative technologies to give them a better chance at being deployed by railway companies.
  
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• Labour blunder will cost taxpayers £250m extra to nationalise rail firm subscription

  09-04-2025 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  The Telegraph - Passengers could be told to pay higher ticket prices to offset the extra mp;pound;50m needed each year to lease SWR trains
  
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• Labour blunder will cost taxpayers ?250m extra to nationalise rail firm

  09-04-2025 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  The Telegraph - Passengers could be told to pay higher ticket prices to offset the extra ?50m needed each year to lease SWR trains
  
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• Italian state train operator joins challenge to Eurostar monopoly

  09-04-2025 02:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Trenitalia aims to beat rivals and break into cross-Channel high-speed market by 2029
  
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• Frustration over 'ridiculously slow' process for EV chargers

  09-04-2025 02:00 via thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Oxfordshire County Council are being urged to speed up their provision of off-street EV charging cables.
  
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• Free bus travel extended to care leavers in Greater Manchester up to 25

  09-04-2025 02:00 via theboltonnews.co.uk
  
  Bolton News - Care leavers in Greater Manchester can now benefit from free bus travel up to the age of 25.
  
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• Eurostar rival unveils new London to Paris routes ready by 2029

  09-04-2025 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - For three decades Eurostar has held a monopoly in running passenger train services through the Channel Tunnel. But Italymp;#39;s national railway company has plans to change all that.
  
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• Council executive to discuss £2.5m car park investment proposals

  09-04-2025 02:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  The York Press - North Yorkshire Councilmp;#39;s executive will discuss plans for an almost mp;pound;2.5 million investment to improve car parks on Tuesday, April 15.
  
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• Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch at Chemring in Salisbury

  09-04-2025 02:00 via salisburyjournal.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - THE Conservative leader has described the decision to scrap the Stonehenge tunnel and approve the Lower Thames Crossing as ?arbitrary?.
  
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• Concerns over delays to new Transport for Wales trains being delivered

  09-04-2025 02:00 via walesonline.co.uk
  
  Wales Online - mp;#39;We believe TfW should use all options available to them...mp;#39;
  
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• Community interests should be front and centre of airspace modernisation policy

  09-04-2025 02:00 via aef.org.uk
  
  Aviation Industry- In its recent response to the Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) consultation on the establishment of a single authority to lead airspace modernisation in the UK, mp;amp;#8230;The post Community interests should be front and centre of airspace modernisation policy appeared first on Aviation Environment Federation.
  
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• Comment: Can the railway be rejuvenated in North West Wales?

  09-04-2025 02:00 via railmagazine.com
  
  Rail Magazine - Rail travel in West Wales is very limited.
  
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• Colchester Town station welcomes new cycle storage lockers

  09-04-2025 02:00 via gazette-news.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - THOUSANDS of pounds has been ploughed into new storage lockers at a railway station in a bid to get people to swap cars for bikes.
  
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• Carmakers hit by a 'black swan event' from Trump's trade war

  09-04-2025 02:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  
  This is Money- The 25 tax on foreign-made vehicles entering the US would cause mp;#39;Armageddonmp;#39; and mp;#39;pure chaosmp;#39; for the sector, said Dan Ives at US broker Wedbush.
  
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• Avanti West Coast owner to launch £856m Eurostar rival with one key difference

  09-04-2025 02:00 via business-live.co.uk
  
  Birmingham Post - FS Italiane Group, which co-owns Avanti West Coast, has confirmed plans to launch a high-speed rail service between London and Paris by 2029
  
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