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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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- Are the wheels about to fall off car finance?PCP schemes have revolutionised vehicle buying based on strong used car values
- Uber self-driving car crashes during US testsCollision threatens plans to bring high levels of autonomy into commercial use
- India’s Uber drivers feel taken for a rideMany people whom Uber helped take out car loans struggle with payments as subsidies are cut
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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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- ScotRail under fire after complaints about service rise by 10%THE country’s troubled railway service is under further pressure over revelations that there has been a 10% rise in complaints.
Times Online
- Rail boss ready for an insurgency [subscription]High Speed 2’s new boss took his post this month amid controversy, having previously run the European part of CH2M Hill, the US consultant that is deeply involved in the rail line.
- Rail boss ready for an insurgencyHigh Speed 2’s new boss took his post this month amid controversy, having previously run the European part of CH2M Hill, the US consultant that is deeply involved in the rail line.
- First smart town to end grind of daily commute [subscription]This is your working day in the mid-2020s. Take a stroll through colonnaded streets to the office before joining your daughter to watch wild ponies graze at lunch. Then go kite surfing after work — all with no need to own a car.
- Run trains on batteries, says Network Rail boss [subscription]Electrification of Britain’s railway lines should be scaled back in favour of cheaper alternatives such as battery-powered trains, the boss of Network Rail has said.
Mail Online
- Parliament Square could be car-free after London attack MPs are pushing for the area outside the palace to be pedestrianised - reviving a long-standing project that has been championed by Sadiq Khan.
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- Watch: Birmingham Airport baggage handlers caught THROWING suitcases into plane Angry passenger filmed scenes involving Ryanair passenger plane on his mobile phone
Daily Post (North Wales)
- Watch massive Airbus Beluga come in to land at Hawarden The huge aircraft dotted down in Flintshire
London Evening Standard
- Car hacking: public concern is high, but what's the risk?Our cars are becoming increasingly connected, and that is getting some people worried criminals might try to hack them
Nottingham Evening Post
- Changes in bus fare prices come into effect from today Nottingham City Transport announced earlier this month that it was "revising its fare structure" due to increased operating costs.
The York Press
- 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.
Other Regional Press
- Bus firms in improvement driveKEIGHLEY bus company Transdev has united with two others and West Yorkshire transport chiefs to try to tempt more people on to the buses.
- The weird transport solutions to cut the amount of time it takes you to drive in and out of CambridgeWe look at some of the more imaginative ways of cutting down your journeys across the city
- MotionMap wants to make transport better, faster and easier in CambridgeIn a series of increased efforts to position Cambridge as a hub for innovation, an intelligent transport app allowing you to view real time transport data is being developed by local tech company Building Intellect Ltd in partnership with the Smart Cambridge Programme.
- Rail funding boost helps dementia passengers A community rail partnership has received a funding boost to help those living with dementia to reconnect with the railways....
- Vintage buses set to travel the streets of Oxford once again NOT seen on Oxford's streets in almost 50 years, a showcase of vintage buses are now set to traverse the city once again, with the launch of a one-off event celebrating vintage travel.
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- There's no need to walk to the train, if you live in this building. It comes to you.This decade, the mantra in real estate has been people want to live near mass transit. Now it seems people want to live with the transit.
Green Miscellany
- 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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- 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.
- Scotland must do more to decrease harmful emissions across all sectorsClimate change targets across all of Scotland’s sectors should be “equally challenging”, according to a Holyrood report published today.
- GreenRoad Partners and Smith System to offer technology-backed driver behavior training GreenRoad, a global company that develops driver behavior technology solutions, has partnered with Smith System, a multinational firm that offers collision avoidance driver training, to deliver a solution for in-vehicle driver safety technology as we…
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- Campaigners demand lower fuel pump prices to reflect wholesale decline FairFuelUK argue a 3pm wholesale decline in prices has not been passed onto motorists
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