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New Humber Bridge tolling system delayed to ‘ensure a smooth…

Hull Daily Mail Icon News Hull & East Yorkshire News Humber Bridge The new system will see the removal of the remaining toll booths and use automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology The arrival of the new Humber Bridge tolling system has been pushed back to early next year "to ensure a smooth, reliable rollout".

Heathrow new CEO likely to want expansion in numbers, but…

Thomas Woldbye, Heathrow’s new chief executive, is understood to have begun disbanding the 3rd runway team, and the airport’s runway plans have been shelved, as leaked details of the airport’s “better not bigger” strategy can be revealed.  Woldbye is instead understood to be exploring how to squeeze millions more passengers through the airport without expanding its

Andrew Boswell’s legal case, needing the emissions from future use…

Environmental campaigner and retired scientist, Andrew Boswell, is challenging the granting of development consent for 3 major road building schemes near Norwich. The latest challenge in the ongoing case was heard in the Court of Appeal on 16th January.  The case is about the need for new infrastructure schemes, such as roads or airports, to have

How Carlyle’s bet on unsuccessful Southend airport did not work…

Southend airport, barely used now, is at the centre of an escalating dispute between one of the world’s largest private equity groups and an impoverished infrastructure company.  The $426bn investment firm Carlyle Group is demanding the early repayment of a £125mn loan made to the airport in 2021, when the aviation industry was reeling from international