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LETTER: First Bus cashless payments scheme will hit the neediest

Consider this. You are a city council, and you are obliged to reduce pollution. Consider this too. You are a bus company, and you find it tiresome and expensive to handle cash. So, you create a cashless method of payment, and to sell this idea to passengers and city council alike you make a dubious claim that if everyone went cashless, buses would load five times quicker.

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  • Please bring back my old British Airways | Victoria Coren MitchellFar from chasing the budget market, the airline should be restoring its reputation for qualityIt must be a busy time in the PR department at British Airways. Stories have been flowing through the press about that airline almost daily, waxing and waning in appeal like a good news/bad news joke.Last week, the information that “BA is launching £86 transatlantic flights” actually appeared in a national paper’s headline; it must have been champagnes aclink in the department that day. That’s a headline perfectly designed to get a million fingers tapping on keyboards in search of such excellent value...

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  • Pilot walks away from crash landing AN incident in which a plane missed the runway of a North Yorkshire airfield caused the aircraft “significant damage”, an accident investigation has found.

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  • Business fleets offered free courses on tailgatingTailgating is a contributory factor in a significant number of collisions so business fleet operators are now being offered free training for their drivers. The Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) is offering free courses on behalf the Road Safety Trust. Employers with young, male drivers who undertake regular driving in light goods vehicles or cars during work, with significant mileage on… The post Business fleets offered free courses on tailgating appeared first on ETA.
  • Pay-as-you-go hydrogen car edges closer to productionBritain’s most radical automotive�company is edging ever closer to full-scale production of a hydrogen car with a 300-mile range. Pay-as-you-go hydrogen car Riversimple aims to transform the way we use our cars by replacing outright ownership of diesel and petrol cars with hydrogen-powered vehicles you lease like a mobile phone. Customers will typically take a car for 1 – 3… The post Pay-as-you-go hydrogen car edges closer to production appeared first on ETA.

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