Buses on standby for passenger surge - From Scotsman - A FLEET of new buses will be put on standby to cope with the influx of extra passengers when Edinburgh’s congestion charging starts because transport managers cannot predict on which routes commuters will appear. 28-11-2004 Buses too crowded to get on - From IC Network - School pupils are being left stranded in the dark for up to an hour because of over-crowding on the city's Outer Circle buses. 28-11-2004 Darling to signal roadbuilding rethink - From Guardian Unlimited - The transport secretary, Alistair Darling, will next week seek to shed his reputation as a roadbuilder, by blocking a £340m highway through the picturesque Blackdown hills of Devon and Somerset. 28-11-2004 Dirt a turn-off on city's buses - From IC Network - City transport boss today blamed dirty buses and a lack of priority bus lanes for a five per cent fall in passenger numbers. 28-11-2004 Fares soar - as profits rocket - From IC Network - Travel West Midlands fares are to rise by an inflation-busting four per cent in the New Year, it was revealed today. 28-11-2004 Flights to lucrative, high-demand destinations 'should be route focus' - From IC Network - INSTEAD of setting up North-South flights, the Assembly should concentrate on new routes from Cardiff which could become commercially viable, according to air expert Martin Evans. 28-11-2004 Health warnings urged for SUVs - From Guardian Unlimited - Four-wheel drive jeeps should carry compulsory health warnings on their body panels, environmental campaigners said yesterday. 28-11-2004 Hundreds of jobs go in rail shake-up - From Guardian Unlimited - The government's shake-up of the rail industry will claim the jobs of half of the 530 civil servants involved in running the railways, according to plans published yesterday. 28-11-2004 Network Rail losses trimmed back to £34m - From Guardian Unlimited - The rail infrastructure company Network Rail today reported a much-improved performance with fewer delays and smaller losses. 28-11-2004 Railways on the 'way to recovery' - From Guardian Unlimited - Network Rail has delivered evidence that Britain's railways are on the road to recovery by producing an improved financial performance and achieving a 16% cut in delays to trains caused by infrastructure failures. 28-11-2004 Riding shotgun in the suburbs - From Guardian Unlimited - They are hardly the badlands. A ride through south-west London might encompass the urban vitality of Streatham, the suburban charm of Wimbledon, the leafy views of Merton and the affluence of Kingston. It's the territory that spawned a thousand sitcoms ab 28-11-2004 Roads agency 'too timid to tackle jams' - From Guardian Unlimited - Britain's highway managers are making inadequate efforts to tackle traffic jams because of a "risk-averse" attitude to new ideas and poor planning for crowd-pulling events, according to the government's spending watchdog. 28-11-2004 Secrecy rebuke over contracts for tube - From Guardian Unlimited - Transport for London has been rebuked by the freedom of information watchdog for failing to make public the contracts relating to the controversial public-private partnership funding formula for the tube. 28-11-2004
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