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• Reeves pledges funds for northern rail but London left short

  11-06-2025 18:04
  North and the regions benefit but Sadiq Khan disappointed as capital secures only one major requestSpending review 2025: key points at a glanceRachel Reeves committed to building a better railway across the north of England in a review that promised more transport investment around the country but left London disappointed.The chancellor said the government’s plans to “take forward our ambitions for northern powerhouse rail” would be published shortly, and confirmed £3.5bn
  
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• Seat edgers: a greater menace than manspreaders – or a perfectly acceptable preference?

  11-06-2025 17:46
  Commutes can bring irritations: smelly food, music played without headphones or bags that block empty seats. Now another behaviour has come under the spotlightName: Seat edgers.Age: All ages. Continue reading...
  
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• Spending review: Reeves vows to ‘renew Britain’ with big rises for NHS, housing and defence

  11-06-2025 15:49
  Chancellor pledges to end spending on asylum hotels, as she contrasts Labour investment with Tory austeritySpending review 2025: key points at a glanceFive charts underpinning Rachel Reeves’s decisionsRachel Reeves has pledged to “renew Britain” with a spending review prioritising health, defence and more than £100bn for long-term capital projects, despite leaving some key areas facing a tough squeeze on funding.In a speech to the Commons setting out Labour’s priori
  
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• Why is the Bakerloo line covered in graffiti?

  11-06-2025 02:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Have you noticed an increase in graffiti on the Bakerloo line?
  Increased graffiti on Tube trains, in particular on the Bakerloo line, has prompted some Londoners to take matters into their own hands by giving carriages a scrub themselves.
  
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• ?We need to challenge the car-dependent transport system we live in?

  11-06-2025 02:00 via bristol247.com
  Other Regional Press - During the run-up to the 2024 UK General Election, Rishi Sunak leaned into the ?War on Motorists? narrative during his campaign, pledging to end ?hare-brained? road safety schemes such as 20mph zones and Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods.
  
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• UK Government set to announce £445m for Welsh rail projects

  11-06-2025 02:00 via nation.cymru
  
  Nation. Cymru - Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce mp;pound;445m for Welsh rail projects in her spending review tomorrow.
  
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• Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK

  11-06-2025 02:00 via bbc.com
  
  BBC News - The autonomous cars with no human safety driver at the wheel will be trialled in London next spring.
  
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• Thousands set to see West Midlands transport prices rise over 50 - full list

  11-06-2025 02:00 via birminghammail.co.uk
  Birmingham Mail - The Ring and Ride service has been hit by a huge increase in costs and the West Midlands Combined Authority's (WMCA) Board will decide later this month whether to approve the fare hike
  
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• Stansted seeks go-ahead to boost capacity to 51 million passengers a year

  11-06-2025 02:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - The planning application comes as Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton airports also plot big increases in passenger capacity
  
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• Spending Review: £1bn Call to Tackle Bus Service Gaps

  11-06-2025 02:00 via rsnonline.org.uk
  Other News Sources - Campaign for Better Transport is calling for an additional mp;pound;1 billion a year for buses as its analysis reveals four out of every ten wards in England and Wales (3,003 out of 7,608) do not have a mp;#39;reasonablemp;#39; level of bus service.
  
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• Self-driving taxis to be allowed on UK roads next year

  11-06-2025 02:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Independent - It will be the first time companies in the UK will be allowed to trial autonomous commercial services without a human sitting in the drivermp;#39;s seat
  
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• Scottish bus firm axes all services after entering liquidation

  11-06-2025 02:00 via thenational.scot
  
  The Scotsman - A BUS operator has axed all services with immediate effect after the firm entered liquidation.
  
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• Rugby MP calls on county council to improve town's bus services

  11-06-2025 02:00 via rugbyobserver.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - RUGBY?S MP has called on Warwickshire County Council to improve bus services in the town.
  
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• Rugby MP calls on county council to improve town's bus services

  11-06-2025 02:00 via rugbyobserver.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - RUGBYmp;#39;S MP has called on Warwickshire County Council to improve bus services in the town.
  
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• Rail challenger to take on Labour's nationalised trains Subscription

  11-06-2025 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  The Telegraph - Lumo plots expansion across UK after announcing bid to triple passenger count
  
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• Pride as Derby-built Alstom electric trains enter service to and from Euston

  11-06-2025 02:00 via derbytelegraph.co.uk
  
  Derby Telegraph - Since 2015, the company has produced a huge 2,660 carriages from the Aventra train family for UK customers
  
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• Over-60s free travel costs taxpayers three times as much as fare dodgers subscription

  11-06-2025 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  The Telegraph - Providing free transport for over-60s in London is costing taxpayers mp;pound;500m a year, prompting calls for the benefit to be scrapped.
  
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• New super seatbelt adapts to the user thanks to real-time data subscription

  11-06-2025 02:00 via thetimes.com
  
  Times Online - A new mp;#39;super seatbeltmp;#39; will use real-time data and adapt depending on traffic conditions and the person wearing it in the biggest development since the three-point was launched in 1959.
  
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• New stations in £445m rail plan for Wales

  11-06-2025 02:00 via bbc.com
  
  BBC News - Five new stations in Newport, Cardiff and Monmouthshire, plus upgrades in north Wales are on the cards.
  
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• New National Bus Company called for by think tank

  11-06-2025 02:00 via busandcoachbuyer.com
  
  Bus and Coach Buyer - A new National Bus Company (NBC) is being called for by IPPR North, a UK think tank.The company is envisioned to be a joint venture between government and local areas. IPPR North believes it could electrify the rollout of zero-emissions buses across the country.
  
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• New Lower Thames Crossing images released

  11-06-2025 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - New images of the future Lower Thames Crossing have been released as the main construction of the ?10bn project moves closer.
  
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• New images show how the Lower Thames Crossing is setting new standards for greener roads in Britain

  11-06-2025 02:00 via nationalhighways.co.uk
  National Highways - A new approach taken for road design and building by cutting construction carbon and restoring nature
  
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• Network Rail urged to resolve rail line concerns

  11-06-2025 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Network Rail has been urged to "resolve any outstanding concerns pragmatically", to get a direct rail link to London up and running.
  
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• Network North Wales: Metro is go!

  11-06-2025 02:00 via news.tfw.wales
  
  Trafnidiaeth Cymru[Transport for Wales] - Last month, we hosted our inaugural Public Transport Summit in the city of Wrexham, bringing together colleagues and stakeholder partners from across the transport sector.
  
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• National Express set to boost south coast connections

  11-06-2025 02:00 via route-one.net
  
  Route One (Bus and Coach) - National Express is to introduce a new route between Portsmouth and Gatwick and increase daily connections to other south coast destinations.
  
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• Lower Thames Crossing images show how £9 billion tunnel between Kent and Essex will look

  11-06-2025 02:00 via kentlive.news
  Other Regional Press - New images have been released by National Highways highlighting how the Lower Thames Crossing could look like in a few years with its greener approach. The mp;pound;9 billion project, which is set to link Kent and Essex, aims to tackle congestion at the Dartford Crossing while putting nature at the heart of its design.
  
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• Lower Thames Crossing images show how ?9 billion tunnel between Kent and Essex will look

  11-06-2025 02:00 via kentlive.news
  Other Regional Press - New images have been released by National Highways highlighting how the Lower Thames Crossing could look like in a few years with its greener approach. The ?9 billion project, which is set to link Kent and Essex, aims to tackle congestion at the Dartford Crossing while putting nature at the heart of its design.
  
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• London Stansted Airport Submits Expansion Plan

  11-06-2025 02:00 via airwaysmag.com
  
  Aviation Industry- mp;#8205;LONDON ?London Stansted Airport (STN) has put forward its latest expansion proposal, aiming to boost passenger capacity to between 48 and 51 million annually by 2040. STN is the fourth busiest airport in the UK after London Heathrow (LHR), London Gatwick (LGW) and Manchester (MAN).
  
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• If Cyclists Designed Cities: Why Roundabouts Would Be Velodromes and Public Transport Would Be Tandems

  11-06-2025 02:00 via welovecycling.com
  Other News Sources - Urban planning is serious business. Unless, of course, you hand it over to cyclists?then it becomes a deliciously deranged blend of spandex, sprockets, and suspiciously clean carbs. Here?s what your average city might look like if the people who think a great Sunday includes 3,000 metres of climbing were given the blueprints.
  
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• Hydrogen powered construction a step closer after successful Lower Thames Crossing trial

  11-06-2025 02:00 via hydrogen-central.com
  
  Other News Sources - Hydrogen powered construction a step closer after successful Lower Thames Crossing trialThemp;amp;#8239;Lower Thames Crossingmp;#39;s plan to replace diesel with hydrogen in its heavy construction machinery will help accelerate Britianmp;#39;s transition to clean power
  
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• Germany launches first Level 4 AV public shuttles

  11-06-2025 02:00 via cities-today.com
  
  News from Europe - For the first time in Germany, passengers are riding public transport operated by Level 4 autonomous vehicles.The KIRA pilot project, now live in Langen and Egelsbach (Offenbach district), marks a significant step for the country in exploring how driverless shuttles could support local mobility?particularly in suburban and rural areas.
  
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• Frustrated open access operators criticise Network Rail over track access responses

  11-06-2025 02:00 via railmagazine.com
  
  Rail Magazine - Open access operators have criticised Network Rail (NR) over its attitude towards applications submitted on two trunk routes.
  
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• First Group profits bounce back after transport group returns to London following RATP takeover

  11-06-2025 02:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  
  This is Money- First Group has returned to profit and cheered progress in its bus and rail operations.Shares in the Aberdeen-based transport operator rose 12.1 per cent as investors welcomed stronger-than-expected profits.
  
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• Eurostar plans direct trains to Frankfurt and Geneva

  11-06-2025 02:00 via bbc.com
  
  BBC News - The firm hopes a fleet of up to 50 new trains will be up and running by the early 2030s.
  
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• Eurostar announcement on new routes ‘short-sighted and disappointing’

  11-06-2025 02:00 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - MP Sojan Joseph says Eurostarmp;#146;s plans to launch services to Germany and Switzerland are mp;#147;short-sightedmp;#148; - as the operator continues to skip Kent.
  
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• Europe was promised a new golden age of the night train. Why are we still waiting? Jon Worth

  11-06-2025 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Romance, excitement and sustainability mp;#150; continent-crossing sleeper trains should be a hit. Itmp;#146;s time for the EU to catch onAs Europeans woke up to the joy of travel post-lockdown, it looked as though we were in store for a resurgence of continent-crossing night trains. Sleeper train fans hailed a mp;#147;night train renaissancemp;#148; and a mp;#147;rail revolutionmp;#148;, combining some of the nostalgia for an old way of travelling with modern climate and sustaina
  
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• Edinburgh to London trains fuel transport giant's growth

  11-06-2025 02:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  The Herald - Transport giant FirstGroup has highlighted the success of its Lumo trains between Edinburgh and London as it plans a major expansion of services linking Scottish cities with England.
  
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• Driverless taxis will change the face of UK transport subscription

  11-06-2025 02:00 via thetimes.com
  
  Times Online - Uber has announced that from next year it will begin testing fully driverless cars provided by a British start-up
  
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• DfT gives free bus passes for over 60s England update and makes £955m funding suggestion

  11-06-2025 02:00 via devonlive.com
  
  Other Regional Press - A growing campaign says people in England should get the concessionary travel those in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland get
  
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• City's rapid transit scheme cost could hit ?323m

  11-06-2025 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A proposed new tram-style bus system for Aberdeen could cost as much as ?323m, according to a new report, external.
  
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• City's rapid transit scheme cost could hit £323m

  11-06-2025 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A proposed new tram-style bus system for Aberdeen could cost as much as mp;pound;323m, according to a new report, external.
  
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• Chancellor Rachel Reeves set to promise Wales nearly half a billion pounds for rail

  11-06-2025 02:00 via walesonline.co.uk
  
  Wales Online - An initial funding settlement of ?445m for new rail projects in Wales will be confirmed by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the Comprehensive Spending Review
  
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• Budget airline Jetstar Asia to close in weeks, customers offered refunds

  11-06-2025 02:00 via bbc.com
  
  BBC News - Jetstar Asia has struggled with rising supplier costs, high airport fees and increased competition.
  
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• Billionaire Surinder Arora bids for Heathrow expansion with shorter, low-cost runway plan

  11-06-2025 02:00 via easterneye.biz
  
  Other News Sources - Arora, one of Heathrowmp;#39;s largest landowners, is partnering with US engineering company Bechtel to submit a proposal after aviation minister Mike Kane said the Government was open to alternative bids.
  
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• 'We need to challenge the car-dependent transport system we live in'

  11-06-2025 02:00 via bristol247.com
  Other Regional Press - During the run-up to the 2024 UK General Election, Rishi Sunak leaned into the mp;#39;War on Motoristsmp;#39; narrative during his campaign, pledging to end mp;#39;hare-brainedmp;#39; road safety schemes such as 20mph zones and Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods.
  
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• 'They're living in fantasy land': Uber to trial self-driving taxis in London next spring

  11-06-2025 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Partnership with Wayve will use cars without a human safety driver onboard for the first time in Europe
  
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• 'Maths geek' councillor tells bus boffins £323m rapid transit plan for Aberdeen 'doesn't add up'

  11-06-2025 02:00 via pressandjournal.co.uk
  The Press and Journal (Aberdeen) - Councillors argued public money is being mp;quot;wastedmp;quot; on the Aberdeen Rapid Transit project - with mp;pound;3.4m already put aside for it mp;quot;without a shovel in the groundmp;quot;.
  
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