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Roads minister abandoned young driver safety plans after taking power

Exclusive: Growing calls for licence restrictions fall on deaf ears in the Department for Transport – despite Lilian Greenwood’s former support

The Independent UK

Hammersmith Bridge could stay closed to vehicles until 2035, MP warns

Putney MP Fleur Anderson has urged residents to write to the Department for Transport about the impact the closure is still having on their daily lives

Evening Standard

Trainline shares drop after rival government-backed train ticket app announced

The service will be available after Great British Railways is established

The Independent UK

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New Government-backed online train ticket retailer to be created

The service will be available after Great British Railways is established.

Evening Standard

Thousands of London drivers paying wrong traffic fines every year

At least six London councils handing out £130 fines based on restrictions which lack up-to-date paperwork

The Independent UK

‘Thousands of drivers paying invalid traffic fines every year’

The AA said at least six councils in London handed out £130 fines based on restrictions without up-to-date certification.

The Independent UK

Commons committee chairman says local roads are ‘riddled with potholes’

Local road conditions in England are worsening but the DfT has shown ‘too little interest’ in what difference its funding has made.

The Independent UK

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Anti-LTN campaign groups join forces to lobby government to change law

Fifteen community groups have joined forces for the first time to oppose Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

Evening Standard

PM urges councils to ‘get on’ with fixing ‘broken roads’

The Department for Transport has announced how much each local authority in England will receive to maintain roads in the next financial year.

The Independent UK

Government still does not know how much HS2 will cost, MPs told

The new chief executive of HS2 declined to apologise for the project building a £100 million bat ‘shed’.

The Independent UK

Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce to reopen the key link across the Thames is being reconvened

Any Government funding decision is likely to be made in the Spending Review next spring, the Public Accounts Committee was told

Evening Standard

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to lead new taskforce for disabled air passengers

The group will aim to tackle issues such as people being left onboard planes without timely assistance and mishandling of wheelchairs.

The Independent UK

National bus fare cap: When is the new fare introduced and how much does it cost?

The £1 cap increase will be introduced in January 2025

The Independent UK

Bus fare hike same as 1p income tax rise on working people who commute - new analysis

The Department for Transport has disputed claims that the 50 per cent rise in the cap on a single bus ticket equates to a 1p rise in income tax

The Independent UK

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We still use fax machines to contact train crews, Northern Rail official admits in excruciating grilling

‘People will say how come we have three decades of privatisation when money was being poured into the railway and you are still communicating via fax machines in 2024,’ says Andy Burnham

The Independent UK

£2 bus fare cap to increase to £3 in Budget, Starmer announces

The increase will be announced at Rachel Reeves’ first Budget on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

Airspace modernisation plan to cut flight delays launched by Government

The Department for Transport (DfT) said it has launched a consultation on a proposal to establish a UK Airspace Design Service.

The Guardian - UK

P&O owner to attend UK investment summit despite minister’s criticism

Keir Starmer rebuked transport secretary, Louise Haigh, for describing P&O Ferries as a ‘rogue operator’

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The Independent UK

Labour picks trains tsar to drive through railway renationalisation

The transport secretary has picked Laura Shoaf, chief executive of the West Midlands Combined Authority, to run Shadow Great British Railways

Evening Standard

Stansted airport included in latest roll-out of Contactless train ticketing

45 more stations across South-East will get ‘pay-as-you go’ ticketing from 2025

The Guardian - UK

I have the ideal road plan for Britain. Take the 16 major highway schemes worth £15bn and bin them

New ministers now face a historic choice: more roads of dubious value or fresh thinking to secure growth – and fight climate breakdown, says transport commentator Christian Wolmar

The Guardian - UK

‘Scandalous’ £3.4bn UK state spending on private consultants last year

New figures reveal that public bodies paid out at least 60% more to consultancies in 2023-24 than it did pre-pandemic

Cycling Weekly

Cycling in England remains at pre-pandemic levels, with men riding much more

The Department for Transport's National Travel Survey shows that fewer miles were ridden in 2023 to 2019

The Independent UK

Louise Haigh launches historic rail nationalisation scheme in bid to prove Labour’s socialist credentials

Exclusive: New transport secretary Louise Haigh dubs herself ‘the passenger-in-chief’ as she speaks to The Independent about the biggest nationalisation programme in 50 years

The Independent UK

Tories awarded £1.2m contract to Canadian firm which bribed Muammar Gaddafi’s son

Exclusive: The government awarded a £1.2m contract to AtkinsRéalis, a firm that pleaded guilty to bribing the son of Muammar Gaddafi with tens of millions of dollars to win contracts in Libya in the decade before the dictator’s downfall between 2001 and 2011

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