Public Transport news

• Spaceports 'delayed' by Brexit

  29-01-2017 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Herald - PROPOSALS to enable the development of the UK's first commercial spaceports have been delayed by Brexit.
  
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• Work on £77 million link road could start in two years

  28-01-2026 01:00 via kentonline.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - The start date for a major new link road project has been earmarked ahead of plans finally being submitted later this year.
  
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• Will all current bus routes be maintained in the coming years as passenger numbers fall?

  28-01-2026 01:00 via southwarknews.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - Buses will be less frequent and more crowded say the Conservatives as Mayor refuses to commit to key bus route renewals
  
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• Update on progress of £1m Moorfields facelift

  28-01-2026 01:00 via liverpoolecho.co.uk
  Liverpool Echo - A mp;pound;1m overhaul to upgrade an mp;#39;outdatedmp;#39; Liverpool city centre railway station could be completed by the spring. It was announced last June how the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) would pump vital cash into giving Moorfields a much needed makeover.
  
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• Transport Committee calls for action to secure skills for transport manufacturing

  28-01-2026 01:00 via highways-news.com
  Highways News - A new Transport Committee report has urged the Government to make the most of once-in-a-generation opportunities to better support the transport manufacturing sector to nurture and grow the skills it needs to thrive.
  
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• Transport authority steps in to save bus routes

  28-01-2026 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - Four at-risk bus services have been saved after the regional transport authority said it would intervene to keep them running.
  
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• Thames tunnel has that sinking feeling subscription

  28-01-2026 01:00 via thetimes.com
  Times Online - The government needs to come clean over its financing for the Lower Thames Crossing
  
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• TfL seeks ideas to provide calm spaces for neurodivergent passengers

  28-01-2026 01:00 via railwaygazette.com
  Railway Gazette - UK: Transport for London is seekingmp;#8239;market feedbackmp;#8239;on potential ways to provide neurodivergent passengers with a calm, quiet spacemp;#8239;whenmp;#8239;travelling onmp;#8239;the public transport network, without needing to undertake any infrastructure changes.
  
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• TfL lays out plans to cut congestion and boost bus speed

  28-01-2026 01:00 via route-one.net
  Route One (Bus and Coach) - Transport for London (TfL) has unveiled a five-year plan to cut overall congestion in the capital and speed up bus services.
  
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• Strong words around bus franchising are yet to disappear entirely

  28-01-2026 01:00 via route-one.net
  Route One (Bus and Coach) - Those who have been around the bus industry for a long time will likely recall the extent of rancour when early hints of franchising came in the mid-2010s. Language from both the for and the against camps was blunt in making their respective positions known.
  
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• Skanska UK president and CEO on bringing certainty to public sector infrastructure delivery

  28-01-2026 01:00 via newcivilengineer.com
  New Civil Engineer - mp;quot;This government has been bold. Imp;#39;d give it 10 out of 10 for everything it has said and everything itmp;#39;s trying to do, but the proof is in the pudding, says Skanska UK CEO Katy Dowding.
  
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• Second Okehampton railway station will have no loos, drinking water

  28-01-2026 01:00 via creditoncourier.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - TOILET and drinking water facilities will not be available at the new Okehampton Interchange railway station, a decision described as mp;#39;ridiculousmp;#39; by an Okehampton town councillor.
  
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• Sadiq Khan rules out linking proposed TfL line to Heathrow citing 'limited benefits'

  28-01-2026 01:00 via mylondon.news
  Other Regional Press - The West London Orbital is expected to have a HS2 connection, but Transport for London is against it running to Heathrow Airport
  
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• Regulator slams easyJet over misleading £5.99 baggage charge claim

  28-01-2026 01:00 via bristolpost.co.uk
  Bristol Live - The airline jas been banned from using the same tactics in future
  
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• Record rise in London e‑bike and e‑scooter fires

  28-01-2026 01:00 via bbc.com
  BBC News - E-bike fires killed two Londoners last year and the LFB wants further formal regulation.
  
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• Record rise in London e-bike and e-scooter fires

  28-01-2026 01:00 via bbc.com
  BBC News - E-bike fires killed two Londoners last year and the LFB wants further formal regulation.
  
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• Plan to improve sustainable transport at Oxfordshire science hub is approved

  28-01-2026 01:00 via news.oxfordshire.gov.uk
  Other News Sources - A plan to create a healthier, better connected and more sustainable future for an Oxfordshire scientific hub over the next 25 years has been approved.
  
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• Operators announced for first publicly run bus services in the Liverpool City Region for 40 years

  28-01-2026 01:00 via highways-news.com
  Highways News - Following a competitive tender process, two operators have been appointed to operate the first locally controlled services in the Liverpool City Region since the 1980s, marking the biggest change to public transport in the region for more than a generation.
  
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• "Once-in-a-generation leadership role": Great British Railways Chair position advertised

  28-01-2026 01:00 via railmagazine.com
  Other News Sources - The Department for Transport has published the job advert for the Chair of Great British Railways.
  
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• Newcastle International Airport takes fourth Yutong airside bus

  28-01-2026 01:00 via route-one.net
  BBC News - Battery-electric ABe14 can carry 110 passengers and follows success with three prior arrivals
  
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• Minister defends decision not to publish mass transit tram review

  28-01-2026 01:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus - A Government minister has defended the decision not to let the public see details of a vital report into a delayed major transport project.
  
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• Madeleine the boring machine poised for new HS2 tunnel

  28-01-2026 01:00 via bbc.com
  BBC News - The high speed rail line from Birmingham will be extended from west London to Euston station.
  
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• Long-awaited Sunday bus service is relaunched in York

  28-01-2026 01:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  The York Press - A long-awaited Sunday bus, Service 15, in York has made a strong start after its relaunch.
  
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• Labour's rail nationalisation tsar to get £300,000 for working two days a week subscription

  28-01-2026 01:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  The Telegraph - DfT says new chairman position will save mp;pound;275,000 by merging two roles together
  
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• Hull MPs and government discussing using private finance to bring electrification to city

  28-01-2026 01:00 via railmagazine.com
  Rail Magazine - Hullmp;#39;s three MPs are having talks with the government and stakeholders in East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire with a view to businesses funding electrification of the main line to the city.
  
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• HS2 station will serve 'whole country' when line finally built, says rail minister

  28-01-2026 01:00 via independent.co.uk
  The Independent - Lord Hendy said HS2 line and Euston station should be full of trains to go everywhere in Britainmp;#39;
  
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• HS2 blamed for difficulty recruiting officers at watchdog committee

  28-01-2026 01:00 via birminghammail.co.uk
  Birmingham Mail - Dudley councillors told overspend was due to spending on expensive interim officers and HS2 demand meant a shortage of surveyors
  
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• Greater Anglia to install anti-trespass measures

  28-01-2026 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - Greater Anglia is putting anti-trespass measures at railway stations across the East of England, after figures from the past year revealed that trespass incidents caused more than 18 days' worth of delays.
  
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• Government must stop undermining NI bus manufacturing through Windsor Framework - Campbell

  28-01-2026 01:00 via mydup.com
  Other News Sources - East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell has criticised the ongoing impact of the Windsor Framework in a Westminster debate on bus manufacturing, warning that Northern Ireland companies are being placed at a clear and unacceptable disadvantage.
  
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• Free parking trial coming to these Cambridgeshire areas

  28-01-2026 01:00 via cambridge-news.co.uk
  Cambridge News - The Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough said the cost of parking means customers are mp;#39;lostmp;#39; to retail parks and online shopping
  
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