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Labour MP serving as UK Secretary of State for Transport, with responsibility for rail, aviation and roads policy, including Great British Railways.
Heathrow's Helen Elsby told MPs that third-runway affordability should be checked at regular points over 20 years and left out of the government scorecard. Airlines and freight companies want more cost scrutiny before ministers choose a design, City AM reported.
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Number 10 has privately assured aviation executives it still backs Heathrow's third runway, three industry figures told City AM. For firms with money riding on the runway, the vote on its policy framework is still the firmer signal.
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Heidi Alexander's rolling stock strategy lets Great British Railways buy new trains outright instead of leasing from firms paid £2.7bn in 2024/25. The change covers new orders, so owners such as JPMorgan Chase and PSP have fewer new trains to put their capital into.
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The first autonomous rides in the UK arrive with a licensed driver in every seat and a fare no higher than a normal Uber, and the $8.6 billion valuation is really a bet on the regulatory approval still to come.
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Fifteen supervised cars joined the Uber app in London on Thursday under a licence that keeps a human in the driving seat until a separate agency, which few expect to move this year, says otherwise.
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