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  • Drivers to face Scotland's first motorway bus laneDRIVERS will be confronted by Scotland's first motorway bus lane this year when a dedicated route is expected to open as part of traffic measures introduced during the construction of the new Forth Road Bridge.

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  • 29 bus jobs at risk in YorkA UNION claims 29 conductors are at risk of redundancy following First™s decision to axe York™s ftr buses.

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  • Wales cuts bus support by 20 per centThe Welsh government has announced reductions totalling £7million in transport grants, a cut of over 20 per cent.
  • Bus stop info scans launched in GlasgowFirst Glasgow is now displaying quick response (QR) codes at bus stops across the city so customers can instantly access its website by scanning the code using the camera on their mobile phone.
  • Cable support for ITAsSupport for an integrated transport authority for the Bristol area, and potentially in other conurbations, has come from business secretary Vince Cable.
  • Gas trials underway in ReadingReading is currently at the centre of gas bus activity with two operators in the area, Reading Transport and Thames Travel, evaluating MAN™s CNG-powered EcoCity demonstrators.
  • Through ticket from Citylink and FirstScottish Citylink “ part-owned by Stagecoach “ and First Glasgow have introduced a through ticket which allows passengers using the Citylink service between Edinburgh, Harthill and Glasgow to continue through to Glasgow Airport on First Glasgow™s 500 Shuttle service.
  • Commons plans new inquiryIn what at times seems like a never-ending procession of inquiries, the House of Commons transport committee is now getting in on the act, with what sounds like an inquiry into an inquiry, as it plans to look into the Competition Commission™s report on the local bus services market.
  • Hydrogen-powered bus plan for AberdeenPlans to operate 12 hydrogen-powered buses on services in Aberdeen have been approved by the city council.
  • Blind passengers œvulnerableBlind bus passengers are being left stranded and vulnerable, according to a new survey by the charity Guide Dogs.
  • Cambridge community minibus scheme flopsThe first of Cambridgeshire™s community minibus schemes, promoted by the council as a flexible alternative to funding conventional rural bus services, carried just one passenger in its first month of operation, although that one person did make three journeys.
  • First to withdraw StreetCars from YorkFirst is withdrawing its fleet of Wrightbus StreetCars from York.

Campaign for Better Transport

  • Cheaper ways to beat A14 congestion2 February: Our response to the DfT™s 'A14 Challenge' shows how congestion could be solved for one third of the cost of a huge widening project. read more

Global Rail News

  • Train derailment causes travel chaosUpdate: The Up and Down Slow lines have been re-opened and Network Rail are working to restore full service on the fast lines as ‘soon as possible’. A locomotive derailed at Bletchley on the West Coast Main Line last night. The train caused travel chaos for commuters this morning as no trains can run between [...]
  • Eurotunnel revenue up in 2011Groupe Eurotunnel has said its revenue in 2011 increased by 16% to €844.8 million. In the Channel Tunnel, Eurotunnel Shuttles sustained a revenue growth of 10%. Eurostar services saw a growth of 2% and carried almost 9.7 million passengers in 2011. A total of almost 19 million people and 17.7 million tonnes of freight were [...]
  • Refurbished Marks Tey station opensThe new and upgraded Marks Tey station was opened last week by Essex County Council. National Express East Anglia ‘rebuilt and transformed’ the station with a £2.2m investment as part of the National Stations Improvements Programme. The rebuilt station has a new access ramp and stairs up to the widened London bound platform with new [...]
  • Platform promise for PeterboroughMore platforms and a new ticket hall feature in a £43m plan to upgrade Peterborough station. The redevelopment heralds longer, more frequent trains and anticipates a surge in passenger volume. Four million people a year use the station and this number is expected to double over the next 25 years. Says Phil Verster, Network Rail [...]
  • Northern Hub plans promotedPeople across the north of England want to see more railways and better services. Network Rail™s biggest ever consultation exercise in the north promoted plans for the Northern Hub and a vision for rail investment across the region. If fully funded the Hub would allow faster, more frequent journeys. It includes the Ordsall Chord, a [...]
  • Plans to take high speed rail to Liverpool ˜quiety dropped™The Liverpool Daily Post has claimed that plans to take a high speed rail line to the edge of Liverpool ‘have been quiet dumped, apparently to save money’. High Speed Two was ‘expected to run at its top speed’ to Manchester and then slow down to run through Liverpool Lime Street. The news agency claims that [...]

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Green Miscellany

  • Save our cyclists, from fear The Times this week dedicated two front covers and a further four full pages inside the newspaper to its campaign to improve road conditions for urban cyclists. The campaign by The Times to improve road safety is laudable and has the potential to improve conditions for anyone who lives in, or passes through, a town or city, but alarmist headlines risk exacerbating the problem that, where cycling is concerned, we have nothing to fear but fear itself.read more
  • Bicycles that grow with your kids Spanish bicycle makers Orbea have launched a range of bicycles that can be adjusted in size as a child growsread more

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  • Ryanair Launches “Cash Passport” in Ireland Ryanair today launched the ‘Ryanair Cash Passport' in Ireland. The MasterCard prepaid card (managed by Access Prepaid Worldwide) will replace other MasterCard Prepaid cards as the only way to...

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