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Wednesday, 19 July 2017

BBC News

• Minister to rule on bus ban for Queen Street in OxfordThe decision on whether a major street in Oxford remains closed to buses and taxis will be made by the Secretary of State for Transport.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• You pay £1.2m in bus lane fines ‘money spinner’The data, obtained by Freedom of Information legislation, shows that in the year 2015/16 around £595,975 from charging drivers for breaching bus lanes.

Other Regional Press

• QUEEN STREET ROW: Bus company digs in heels over bus ban as deadline looms THE long-running saga over whether buses will be allowed in Queen Street when the Westgate Centre reopens looks set to be decided by Government intervention.

Green Miscellany

• Driverless buses to revolutionise transport in CambridgeCambridge looks set to become a test bed for driverless buses – otherwise known as autonomous mass-transit travel. The Affordable Very Rapid Transit (AVRT) would run overground on segregated routes and tunnelled sections . Headed up by Professor John Miles, an expert on transport systems at the University of Cambridge, a feasibility study estimates the cost of a 75kms network… The post Driverless buses to revolutionise transport in Cambridge appeared first on ETA.