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Saturday, 20 May 2017

BBC News

• GM to stop making cars for Indian marketThe firm says it will honour warranties and maintenance contracts with its Indian buyers.

The Telegraph

• Cycle lanes putting patients' lives at risk by delaying ambulances, College of Paramedics warn

Times Online

• Pothole crisis sends village quackers [Subscription]First it was the guerrilla gardeners: green-fingered warriors sneaking their way through shabby urban spaces to illicitly plant flowers. Now comes the turn of the fowl fighters: an activist army demonstrating against a local authority’s lack of action over potholes by filling them with rubber ducks.
• The Fiat 500 Riva: perfect for a journey to the sea [Subscription]There have been automotive co-branding partnerships in the past that marketing teams have called “collaborative meetings of minds”, but were, in truth, far more like car crashes. In the Seventies a Florida car dealer sold Gucci Cadillacs, which for Tom Ford would have been something like listening to fingernails dragging down a blackboard. (Although I must admit to a secret admiration for this Frankenstein’s motor. A Google image search will tell you all you need to know.)

Daily Record

• Car owners warned as men posing as police officers make off with vehicles The car thieves, claiming to be plain-clothed officers, had police equipment including handcuffs and covert harnesses at the time of meeting.

Bolton News

• Calls for more roads to be made 20mph zones CALLS have been made for a more extensive rollout of the 20mph speed limit in Westhoughton's residential roads.
• Traffic disruption expected as road resurfacing work beginsMOTORISTS are being warned of road closures due to resurfacing work on the edge of the town centre.

London Evening Standard

• Ugly cars: are these the world's worst looking autos?Just look at the disasters in our 'anti-beauty parade'

East Anglian Daily Times

• Traffic and health care concerns highlighted over Adastral Park projectCommunity leaders say long-term solutions are needed to deal with the traffic and congestion that is likely to be generated by building 2,000 new homes and other facilities at Adastral Park at Martlesham Heath.

Peterborough Telegraph

• TRAFFIC: A605 at Thrapston to face closures and delaysA main route near Thrapston will face road closures and delays starting tomorrow (Sunday) for work on the carriageway.

Other Regional Press

• Villagers have quackers approach to highlighting pothole problem VILLAGERS have come up with a completely quackers way of drawing attention to an ongoing pothole problem.
• Warning after week of carnage of Dorset's roads and death toll rises DRIVERS are being urged to be safe and heed advice after a week of carnage of Dorset’s roads.

C.N.N.

• Driver charged with murder in Times Square crashA man with a history of drunken driving has been charged with murder after police say he barreled a car through the crowded sidewalks in Manhattan's Time Square, leaving one person dead and 20 injured.
• After I-85 fire, states are taking a closer look under their bridgesWhen an elevated section of Atlanta's Interstate 85 crashed to the ground in a fire this spring, motorists already navigating one of the nation's most congested cities braced for what the city's mayor called a transportation crisis.

Forbes

• Japan's Big Carmakers Gang Up In Support Of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles, At Least OfficiallyToyota, Nissan and Honda join hands with energy suppliers to build out a network of hydrogen fueling stations. Government money is behind it, Nissan maybe not completely.

Green Miscellany

• Drivers four times more likely to die in older carsOlder cars are dramatically over-represented in fatal crashes according to analysis conducted by engineers in Australia and released to coincide with the 4th United Nations’ Global Road Safety Week (8-14 May 2017). The research reveals that older cars built before 2000 represent only 20 per cent of the vehicle fleet, and yet are involved in 33 per cent of fatal crashes.… The post Drivers four times more likely to die in older cars appeared first on ETA.

Other News Sources

• Middle lane hoggers, tailgating and more: These are YOUR most annoying driving habits you see on the roads Surrey road users react to an AA poll that claims tailgating is the most irritating habit on the roads
• M3 drivers face weekend diversions as road resurfacing takes place on �174m Smart Motorway scheme Travelling on the M3 this weekend? Check out these diversions before you travel