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Chunnel link leaves £4.8bn debt
Over-optimistic forecasts for passenger demand have left taxpayers "saddled with £4.8 billion of debt" over the HS1 Channel Tunnel rail link, a report by MPs has said.
Plaid Cymru calls for "re-nationalisation" of the railways
Plaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to effectively re-nationalise the railways after the UK Shadow Transport Secretary suggested Labour were looking at the policy for England.
Green light for Leeds™s electric trolleybus scheme
Leeds’s decades-long campaign for a modern transport system has finally reached a successful conclusion after Ministers gave the green light to a £250m electric trolleybus scheme.
Friday, 06 July 2012
BBC News
- Derby buses to get 'route champions' to improve services Derby City Council has pledged to improve public transport by restoring a bus partnership which was scrapped by the previous administration.
- Leeds trolleybus comeback scheme approved Leeds is to become the first UK city to get a modern trolleybus system, it has been confirmed.
- Leeds's 30-year wait for green transport scheme More than five years after they were first announced, plans for the UK's first modern trolleybus system have been given the go-ahead by the government.
Department for Transport
- Green light for Leeds trolleybusTrolleybuses are set to return to Leeds after Transport Secretary Justine Greening today approved a new £250 million public transport system.
The Telegraph
- £60m 'Olympic' bus stand used by just one busA £63 million bus stop billed as
Birmingham Mail
- All change in Birmingham city centre as buses are taken out of Corporation StreetMAJOR changes are to be unveiled today for Birmingham city centre bus passengers.
Derby Telegraph
- Bus forum relaunched with aim of improving travel services in cityA BUS partnership is being relaunched today in an effort to get transport companies and passengers to work with the city council to improve services.
London Evening Standard
- Bus passengers reveal terror fearsBus passengers caught up in a terror alert caused by an electronic cigarette have told how they feared for their lives.
Sheffield Telegraph
- Have Your Say: Quiz bosses over Sheffield bus service changesBUS passengers in Sheffield will have the chance to quiz network bosses about proposed changes to services and improvements to tickets, writes Richard Marsden.
Wales Online
- Taxpayers spared massive bill despite Cardiff Bus' unlawful actionsCardiff Bus will have to pay just £90,000 in compensation to a rival it drove off the roads and into liquidation
Yorkshire Post
- Green light for Leeds™s electric trolleybus schemeLeeds’s decades-long campaign for a modern transport system has finally reached a successful conclusion after Ministers gave the green light to a £250m electric trolleybus scheme.
Peterborough Telegraph
- Reinstated bus service is victory for people powerDelighted residents in a Stanground street won a victory for people power when a bus service was reinstated.
Other Regional Press
- FirstBus said to be selling Northampton baseA bus company which operates 35 services in Northampton has put the operation up for sale, a report claims.
- FirstBus said to be selling Northampton baseA bus company which operates 35 services in Northampton has put the operation up for sale, a report claims.
- Preston passengers halted by ˜electronic cigarette™Bus passengers travelling from Preston to London were surrounded by armed police on a motorway after an electronic cigarette sparked panic on-board.
Global Rail News
- Upstairs DownstairsIt could only be London – the energy, the din, the bustling humanity. One of the city™s red double-deckers plots a course through the traffic; half-a-dozen folk wait in line for it. A thirty-something woman, tanned by Cuprinol, perches on inexplicable heels. Her partner shoulders the spoils of shopping: four assorted bags. She jabs him [...]
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