Bristol Mayor, Marvin Rees, has announced plans to boost bus travel by doubling the frequency of buses on main routes. The Mayor also wants to introduce a city-wide flat bus fare to ensure that poorer residents are not penalised due to where they live and also to ensure that there are bus routes serving areas…
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The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has published the annual statistical release on rail infrastructure, assets and environmental 2017 – 18. The report finds that 5,766km of the mainline railway route is now electrified which is 36% of total railway. This marks a 2% increase from last year. Overall CO2 emissions have decreased owing…
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The consumer watchdog, Which?, has published a report on Britain’s most disrupted train stations. The report found that 68% of trains from Manchester Oxford Road station ran late or were cancelled. York station was the second most disrupted station in the UK followed by Gatwick Airport and Birmingham New Street. The report also analysed London’s…
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Theresa May pledged to freeze fuel duty for the ninth consecutive year in her Conservative party conference speech in Birmingham last week. The prime minister said that fuel duty had been frozen “because for millions of people, their car is not a luxury, it’s a necessity”. “Some have wondered if there would be a thaw…
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The Government has shortlisted ten city regions in England for a share of £840m public transport grant from the Transforming Cities Fund. The areas are: Derby and Nottingham; Leicester; the North East; Norwich; Plymouth; Portsmouth; Southampton; Sheffield; Stoke-on-Trent; and West Yorkshire. Accelerate our transport priorities, says Economic Heartland The England’s Economic Heartland alliance of local…
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A “sweeping review to transform Britain’s railways” was launched by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling last week. The Department for Transport says that the review is the “most significant since privatisation” and will consider ambitious recommendations for reform. Led by independent chair Keith Williams, the former British Airways chief executive and deputy chairman of John Lewis…
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Air pollution is one of the leading public health crises today, killing tens of thousands of people prematurely across the UK every year, with higher exposure affecting those in towns and city centres. Two of the most harmful forms of air pollution, Nitrogen Dioxide and particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), are largely produced from motorised…
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The pace of change in the UK’s mobility landscape is arguably at its fastest ever. New forms of transport are emerging, and customer expectations are continually being redefined by experiences that would once have been unimaginable. Two recent consultations have looked at the impacts of these changes from very different perspectives. The Government’s consultation on…
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The recent meltdown on the UK’s rail networks and the major disruption it caused was rightly met with criticism and condemnation from rail users, politicians and the media – who have been searching for answers as to how this could have happened. And while timetabling and staffing issues have led to a miserable experience for…
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