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Electric two-wheelers are now the fastest-growing cause of blazes in London
Police accused of failing to tackle scourge of souped-up two-wheelers
Labour’s plan to control swathes of the economy is hiding in plain sight
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Commuters have been caught out by sudden action from TSSA
Party intends to renationalise railway system and offer ‘best-price ticket guarantee’, says shadow transport secretary
Labour transport secretary says councils can start raising limits in six months
Ken Skates, Wales’s new transport minister, says speed limit decisions should be left to local communities
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Alstom secures vital new order after crunch talks with Transport Secretary
National Highways says detours in May will be twice as long as those put in place for previous closure in March
Eight of 11 boroughs in capital with blanket implementation failed to look formally into use of taxpayers’ money first
The impending demise of the last train maker in the country represents a loss of identity for a once-proud industrial city
Esther McVey claims the Conservatives have solved the scourge of pockmarked roads with money saved on HS2. Really?
Unsold Lightning pickups piling up in the Detroit parking lot
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Start-up plans £25m e-bike expansion in the capital
Once a Victorian behemoth, train manufacturers are now fighting for survival
Two 24-hour strikes have been cancelled after Aslef union said key issues had been resolved
Network Rail says it will be spending £2.8bn to help it cope better with extreme weather and climate change
Mystery campaigner calls on local authority to repair streets properly
Alstom plant in Derby prepares for redundancies after running out of work
Blow for Hitachi Rail as ministers decide not to sign off on new train orders
There but for the grace of God, as many mariners will be saying
Intervention by former Thames Water owner threatens to trigger battle for control
Karim Bouamrane, mayor of the gritty Saint-Ouen suburb, says the poor will benefit from the planned Games renovation programme
Shadow transport secretary said to want to reverse decision to axe high-speed route between Birmingham and Crewe
So-called ‘vertiports’ will be set up for electric aircraft that take off vertically, similarly to the Harrier jump-jet
One woman and two children were treated after their vehicle collided with the bus in Birmingham
Transport Secretary threatens ‘robust’ sanctions amid fears low-cost models will flood Europe
Yet another sequence of ruinously expensive technical miracles required
Overall EV demand is growing as fleet operators make up consumer shortfall