Public Transport news

• Labour looks to row back on net zero targets subscription

  08-08-2026 02:00 via thetimes.com
  Times Online - Andy Burnham?s government is looking to relax some of Labour?s net zero targets to help tackle the cost of living crisis.
  
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• Yorkshire 'turn up and go' trial to get passengers cheapest train tickets extended until 2027

  10-08-2026 02:00 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  Yorkshire Post - Passengers download an app and this uses GPS to calculate their cheapest journey.
  
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• 'Wales needs more railway stations, they do enormous good to society?

  10-08-2026 02:00 via walesonline.co.uk
  
  Wales Online - Professor Stuart Cole finds powerful arguments for more railway stations in Wales in a new report
  
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• Trains to and from London face major disruption due to electrical fault affecting UK rail

  10-08-2026 02:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Trains across the northwest of England, particularly Greater Manchester and the Midlands, are affected
  
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• Train operator slammed over broken toilets on five-hour routes between London and Scotland

  10-08-2026 02:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - The fault has sparked outrage from passengers making the five-hour journey across the country
  
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• Tom Hayes welcomed rail fares being halved for young people

  10-08-2026 02:00 via bournemouthecho.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Rail fares are being halved for 16 to 18-year-olds in a move to improve access to education and work.
  
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• Thornbury and Yate MP Claire Young's latest column

  10-08-2026 02:00 via gazetteseries.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - For train travellers between Bristol Parkway and London the heat hasn?t been the only bother recently.
  
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• Thornbury and Yate MP Claire Young's latest column

  10-08-2026 02:00 via gazetteseries.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - For train travellers between Bristol Parkway and London the heat hasnmp;#39;t been the only bother recently.
  
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• Think outside the box when it comes to the funding of transport

  10-08-2026 02:00 via thenational.scot
  
  The National - INTERESTING and timely series of papers in The National on such as the justification arguments for nationalising the bus companies. But, like the need for social (low-income) housing, the reasoning always goes back to the taxpayer coughing up.
  
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• The most popular Chinese car brands in Britain: From small fry to the maker selling 1 in 25 of all new cars

  10-08-2026 02:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  This is Money- Based on the latest year-to-date figures SMMT, wemp;#39;ve ranked Chinese carmakers by market share to see which has secured the largest slice of the UK automotive pie.
  
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• Portsmouth International Port's shore power system goes live

  10-08-2026 02:00 via cyprusshippingnews.com
  Other News Sources - In a huge forward step for the UK maritime industry, ferries and cruise ships are now plugging into Portsmouth International Portmp;#39;s shore power system, as it strives to become the countrymp;#39;s first zero-emissions port by 2050.
  
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• New record set in first week as Kids Go Free this summer

  10-08-2026 02:00 via mnrjournal.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - The scheme has reportedly saved families ?1.5 million since its launch in summer 2025.
  THE first week of the hugely popular Kids Go Free scheme in the West of England this summer saw more than 156,000 free bus journeys taken by children.
  
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• MP calls for the £2 bus cap to be extended to school rides

  10-08-2026 02:00 via bournemouthecho.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Poole MP Neil Duncan-Jordan has urged local transport minister Simon Lightwood to include dedicated school buses in the national scheme, which currently excludes them.
  
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• Labour council's £60m station upgrade moves bus stop 50 metres subscription

  10-08-2026 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  The Telegraph - A Labour-run council has spent mp;pound;60m upgrading a railway station entrance which included moving a bus shelter up the road and adding cycle lanes.
  
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• Hybrid drivers relying too much on petrol, ministers fear subscription

  10-08-2026 02:00 via thetimes.com
  Times Online - The government finds one in five hybrid drivers has no way to charge batteries at home, as it consults on relaxing rules on sale of electric vehicles
  
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• Heathrow seeking £9bn from passengers for funding of third runway subscription

  10-08-2026 02:00 via thetimes.com
  Times Online - Heathrow is calling for as much as mp;pound;9 billion in additional early funding from passengers to help finance its third runway project.
  
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• Heathrow seeking ?9bn from passengers for funding of third runway subscription

  10-08-2026 02:00 via thetimes.com
  Times Online - Heathrow is calling for as much as ?9 billion in additional early funding from passengers to help finance its third runway project.
  
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• Government to inject millions into electric vehicle firms despite mandate backlash

  10-08-2026 02:00 via cityam.com
  
  City AM - The government will invest mp;pound;65m into firms producing zero-emission vehicles, despite backlash from the automotive industry over its controversial electric vehicle mandate. The funding includes mp;pound;50m for car firms and research partners to help produce electric vehicles at a larger scale. The Department of Business, Innovation, Science and Trade said the funding would support 1,800 ...
  
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• Future of railways glimpsed by Shropshire MP

  10-08-2026 02:00 via sustainableconstruction-now.com
  
  Other Regional Press - A Shropshire MP who is fast becoming known at Westminster as a champion of rural transport has had a hands-on learning experience with the UK?s only hydrogen-powered train.
  
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• Farrans to build new covered walkways at London Stansted as part of terminal revamp

  10-08-2026 02:00 via newcivilengineer.com
  New Civil Engineer - The skylinks will create direct, covered routes between the main terminal and existing satellite buildings
  
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• Farrans appointed to build new Stansted Airport skylinks

  10-08-2026 02:00 via adsadvance.co.uk
  Aviation Industry- Stansted Airport?s new skylink walkways will be central to transforming it into Europe's largest single terminal airport.
  
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• Cardiff?Newport railway fully reopens after major fire causes extensive damage

  10-08-2026 02:00 via herald.wales
  
  The Herald - Engineers worked around the clock after blaze destroyed signalling, power equipment and 11km of cabling
  
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• Cardiff-Newport railway fully reopens after major fire causes extensive damage

  10-08-2026 02:00 via herald.wales
  
  The Herald - Engineers worked around the clock after blaze destroyed signalling, power equipment and 11km of cabling
  
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• Bristol Airport cancellations after runway shut for 14 hours

  10-08-2026 02:00 via walesonline.co.uk
  
  Wales Online - There are delays for passengers after flights were cancelled or diverted when the runway closed overnight
  
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• Aviation is primarily a leisure industry - it?s not vital to the UK economy

  10-08-2026 02:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - Gatwick?s second runway (Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails, 4 August) is guaranteed to be a fundamental and dangerous mistakeas will be any airport expansion. Aviation wants to persuade us all into thinking it can be business as usual plus. But it canmp;#39;t. In the face of accelerating climate change (the evidence is all around us) massively increasing planet heating emissions via yet more flights is surely insanity.
  
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• Aviation is primarily a leisure industry ? it?s not vital to the UK economy

  10-08-2026 02:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - Gatwick?s second runway (Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails, 4 August) is guaranteed to be a fundamental and dangerous mistake ? as will be any airport expansion. Aviation wants to persuade us all into thinking it can be business as usual plus. But it can?t. In the face of accelerating climate change (the evidence is all around us) massively increasing planet heating emissions via yet more flights is surely insanity.
  
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• Aviation is primarily a leisure industry - it's not vital to the UK economy

  10-08-2026 02:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - Gatwickmp;#39;s second runway (Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails, 4 August) is guaranteed to be a fundamental and dangerous mistakeas will be any airport expansion. Aviation wants to persuade us all into thinking it can be business as usual plus. But it canmp;#39;t. In the face of accelerating climate change (the evidence is all around us) massively increasing planet heating emissions via yet more flights is surely insanity.
  
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• Train operators to crack down on ‘donutters’ and other digital ticket cheats

  09-08-2026 02:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - South Western and GTR announce fightback after move away from paper tickets increases fare dodgingThere is more than one way to commit fraud and, for some rail travellers, it has been as simple as a couple of taps on their phone as their train approaches its destination.That telltale last-minute purchase of a digital ticket mp;#150; for the shortest journey that will allow them to bleep through the gates, regardless of how far they have travelled mp;#150; is one of a number of ill
  
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• TfL defends pigeon culls 'when other methods fail'

  09-08-2026 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Hundreds of birds have been killed at Tube stations by TfL contractors in the past two years.
  
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• Shanghai cancels 1,300 flights and relocates 300,000 people as China prepares for Typhoon Dolphin

  09-08-2026 02:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Independent - Outer bands of storm hits northern Taiwan, including the capital Taipei, bringing rain
  
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