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Other News Sources - Funding from Innovate UK seeks to reduce carbon emissions across infrastructure projects
Other News Sources - Network Rail has been revealed as the new occupier of the former National College for Advanced Transport and Infrastructure in Doncaster.
Transport Action Network - Transport Action Network (TAN) today welcomed the delay but nonetheless urged Transport Secretary Louise Haigh to scrap the mp;pound;9 billion Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) as the planning decision was postponed for a second time 1. TAN said Louise Haigh should use the time to examine the significant concerns with the scheme by independent experts, the local Labour MPs, and the local Labour councils in Thurrock and Gravesham.
Route One (Bus and Coach) - A UK Bus Manufacturing Expert Panel is to be created. It will bring together industry experts and local leaders to explore ways of ensuring that the UK remains a leader in bus building; help local authorities to deliver transport ambitions; and begin to seize opportunities to embrace zero-emission transport technologies, the Department for Transport (DfT) says.
Rail UK - Chiltern Railways has appointed Michael Stewart as its new Commercial and Customer Strategy Director.
Rail Technology Magazine - James Richardson has been appointed as the new managing director of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU).
Rail Magazine - The former National College for High Speed Rail is to reopen as a Network Rail Training Centre. The purpose-built Doncaster building has been empty for the last year following the closure of the college, as Tom Ingall reports...
Rail Magazine - Passengers using Londonmp;#39;s Euston station are being put in danger by high levels of overcrowding, according to London TravelWatch.
Rail Magazine - Eighteen young people from across the North of England have taken their first step in a rail career, joining Northern Trains on a three-year engineering apprenticeship.
Rail Magazine - A UK project to develop new powerful underfloor batteries could be the beginning of the end of the diesel multiple unit and save the need for expensive electrification.
Construction News - The government has announced another delay to its decision on firing the starting pistol for construction work on the Lower Thames Crossing.
Other Regional Press - THE government has announced a further delay on a decision as to whether the controversial Lower Thames Crossing will go ahead.
Other Regional Press - Parliament in recess thought to be behind delay or was there a political reason?
Oxford Mail - Train passengers will have the opportunity to travel from Oxford to Milton Keynes along the reopened East West Railway line next month.
Kent Online - Earlier this year, the cost of preparing the planning application for the Lower Thames Crossing had already topped mp;pound;300 million. And every penny of that came out of the public purse.
London Evening Standard - The Lower Thames Crossing proposal is aimed at reducing congestion on the Dartford Crossing with a new motorway-style road.
London Evening Standard - Almost 1,000 new electric buses are heading for London after the capital won the lion?s share of a ?500m investment in green transport.
Bristol Live - Ryanair is implementing some new rules and procedures over the next few months but ensured passengers a clandestine shrinking of bag measurements is not one of them
Bradford Telegraph & Argus - About 5,000 people are currently employed across no fewer than 70 worksites to bring amp;nbsp;once-in-a-generation railway upgrade to fruition.
Birmingham Post - The North East transport operator has also launched a partnership with Northern Ireland-based bus manufacturer Wrightbus
Birmingham Post - The Old Oak Common station close to Paddington will wipe out much of the speed benefits from electrification of the south Wales to London rail line