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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

BBC News

• Drivers 'should have mandatory level crossing tests' The driving test should have compulsory questions on level crossings to cut the number of drivers who take risks on them each year, Network Rail has said.

Times Online

• Korea unveils the ‘future of transport’ — the Online Electric Vehicle Its inventors believe that this is the future of urban transport — but it was hard not to be underwhelmed as the test vehicle trundled around a circuit on the edge of the South Korean capital.

Journal Live

• Lorries banned from overtaking on busy stretches of A1 LORRIES are to be permanently banned from overtaking during the daytime on two stretches of a busy North East motorway.

Other News Sources

• Congestion charge scheme 'quietly dropped'MINISTERS have abandoned their bid to tempt South Yorkshire's councils into adopting road pricing as they axe a huge £2 billion fund for public transport projects.
• Truckers will be banned from overtaking on A1(M) in County Durham LORRIES are to be permanently banned from overtaking during the daytime on two stretches of a busy motorway.
• Scrappage scheme leads to greener cars NEW cars got greener last year thanks to the Government’s “cash for bangers” vehicle scrappage scheme, it is revealed today.
• Government pledge to win Ampera electric car for Ellesmere Port plant BUSINESS Minister Ian Lucas has pledged the Government will do all in its power to secure production of Vauxhall’s electric vehicle for the Ellesmere Port car plant.
• Eurotunnel's profits plummetA tunnel fire and the severe winter weather have hit Eurotunnel's profits.