Flights from six countries will be banned as officials review travel measures after scientists voice concern over variant Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFlights from southern Africa will be banned, with six countries placed…
Ban UK domestic flights and subsidise rail travel, urges transport charity
Exclusive: Campaign for Better Transport calls on government to end ‘climate disaster’ of internal flightsDomestic flights should be banned and long-distance train fares subsidised, transport campaigners have urged, highlighting the relative environmen…
Far fewer jobs can be reached by public transport in north of England – report
Centre-right thinktank’s findings will increase pressure on Boris Johnson to deliver on ‘levelling up’ promiseWorkers living in northern England can access far fewer local jobs on public transport than those living in the south, according to a damning …
Levelling up isn’t about north or south, or city or town. It’s about restoring local pride | Neil O’Brien
Parts of the country have suffered for decades, now we have an opportunity to unite the countryNeil O’Brien is MP for Harborough and parliamentary undersecretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and CommunitiesBoris Johnson put levelling up at the he…
Birmingham to become a super-sized low-traffic neighbourhood
Council plans to divert car traffic from city via a ring road while providing more buses and cycle linesBirmingham has announced what it calls a “transformative” transport plan that will see the car-centric city becoming a super-sized low-traffic neigh…
Supply chain crisis could last months admits PM but fuel situation ‘improving’
Labour accuses PM of ‘reducing the country to chaos’ with cars continuing to queue and fights breaking outBritain’s supply chain strain could last until after Christmas, Boris Johnson has admitted as he urged motorists to stop panic-buying fuel by insi…
The Southeastern train arriving on platform 3 is £25m late
Latest rail franchise to hit the buffers at least arrived at the destination via an unconventional routeGovernment to take over Southeastern State takeover will amplify calls for rail reformThe conventional way for a company to get stripped of a rail f…
In a queue for petrol in Essex, I found an unexpected camaraderie | Tim Burrows
At first, I thought drivers lining up in case there was a fuel shortage were foolish. Then I joined themBefore this weekend, I had never seen a petrol station cashier answer a telephone. Yet here he was, this harassed man in front of me, fielding sever…
European lorry drivers ‘will not want to come to UK’, warn haulage chiefs
Emergency visa plan will not resolve Britain’s road transport crisis, says industry as majority blame Brexit in pollThe government’s emergency programme to issue temporary visas to thousands of lorry drivers is far too little to resolve Britain’s suppl…
BP rations petrol and diesel deliveries to its service stations
Oil giant says HGV driver shortage is disrupting supplies, with about 10% of forecourts running out of some fuelsBP is rationing deliveries of petrol and diesel to its UK network of 1,200 service stations, as the oil giant became the latest firm to war…