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UK ministers look to install highly paid boss to spearhead rail reform plan

Salary of new senior post could dwarf DfT pay scales in effort to speed up troubled Great British Railways project

The Guardian - UK

The government should make ebikes cheaper, not more powerful, if they want more people on bikes

No one with any real interest in seeing an uptake in cycling in the UK has called for the changes, argues advocacy expert Sam Jones

Cycling Weekly

Ministers to consult on doubling legal wattage of electric bike motors

Exclusive: DfT to launch consultation despite concerns over road and fire safety and legal status as cycles

The Guardian - UK

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Fund to hand out £4.7bn from axed HS2 northern section to smaller projects

Ministers say smaller towns and cities in north of England and Midlands to benefit from scrapping of Leeds and Manchester lines

The Guardian - UK

'We’re actually selling bikes at a loss' - Leading retailer blames Cycle to Work schemes for drop in profit

'We’re earning less than we’ve ever done' says Mark James of Sheffield’s JE James Cycles

Cycling Weekly

Direct rail services between Shropshire and London to end soon

The service is reportedly being cancelled because not enough people use it

Evening Standard

West Ham fan boat crash caused £100,000 of damage to Hammersmith Bridge

The boat had been taking West Ham fans to an away match against Fulham but was forced to turn back after getting stuck

Evening Standard

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Hammersmith Bridge to re-open to cyclists with temporary lanes

Cyclists will no longer have to dismount and walk their bikes across

Evening Standard

HS2 London to Birmingham cost balloons to £68billion with no open date set for Euston, report reveals

MPs are 'more concerned about the HS2 programme than ever before'

Evening Standard

Claims government blocked low-traffic schemes were a fiction, papers suggest

Exclusive: Low-traffic neighbourhoods applications were rejected due to lack of ambition, not policy shift

The Guardian - UK

Uncertainty hangs over Sadiq Khan's cheap Friday fares trial as TfL and train companies try to agree deal

Standard learns that multiple issues have to be resolved before scrapping of peak fares on Fridays can be trialled

Evening Standard

Rail strikes: trains in south-east England halted as rolling stoppages begin

Aslef drivers at Southeastern, Southern/Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Thameslink and South Western stop work

The Guardian - UK

UK roads being built without ministerial oversight, say environment campaigners

National Highways pushing ahead with projects ‘behind wall of secrecy’

The Guardian - UK

Hammersmith Bridge: Thames crossing repair bill soars to £250million raising fears it won't ever reopen to traffic

Tories say it should be renamed 'Sadiq Khan Bridge' to highlight mayor's alleged inaction

Evening Standard

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International Business Times UK

ASLEF's Planned Walk-Outs Bring Disruption for Train Passengers Across England

The strikes, orchestrated by the train drivers' union ASLEF, are set to unfold as a series of "rolling" walk-outs from late January to early February.

The Independent UK

January and February rail strikes: Misery for train passengers as Aslef plan week of walk-outs across England

Union is calling for ‘realistic offer’ to end long-running dispute

Evening Standard

E-scooter crash injuries significantly under-reported, study finds

More rigorous collection of data is vital to ensure the dangers of the vehicles are fully understood, according to Government advisers.

The Guardian - UK

Tiny proportion of e-scooter injuries appear in official UK data

Study warns that lack of reporting may mask the dangers of still-mostly-illegal scooters on roads and pavements

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The Guardian - UK

Ministers prioritised driving in England partly due to conspiracy theories

Exclusive: Documents show shift in transport policy influenced by unfounded fears about loss of freedom of movement in ‘15-minute cities’

The Independent UK

New law requires 22% of cars sold in UK to be zero-emission

Threshold will rise annually until it reaches 100 per cent by 2035

The Guardian - UK

Disbelief at plan to fix London potholes as part of Network North project

£235m funding for capital’s roads is possible only because of investment that comes from scrapping northern leg of HS2

Evening Standard

Government invests £235m in London's roads using funds from HS2

Roads will be resurfaced across the capital over the next 11 years

Evening Standard

Landowners on axed HS2 route left ‘suicidal’, MPs told

Rail expert Trevor Parkin told the Commons’ Transport Select Committee that HS2 Ltd officials are ‘dragging their feet’.

The Independent UK

Ministers urged to act as figures show surge in fatal crashes among elderly drivers

Some 245 men aged 70 and over were killed in crashes during the year to the end of June

The Independent UK

Plea to boost drivers’ skills after surge in deaths of older road users

Some 245 men aged 70 and over were killed in crashes during the year to the end of June, provisional figures for Britain show.

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