Good day my good friend.

How have you been? I trust that you have had a most restful of Easter breaks. I would like to say the same. But my break consisted of two admittedly excellent days out, and an entire weekend stressing over my dog Jasper who decided to be very ill on Saturday. He is much better now, but its not been an easy weekend.

Later this week I will share some interesting tidbits with you, and I have a special version of the newsletter coming out tomorrow as well. In the meantime, to the good news.

😀 Good things going on

If you are off to Skegness this summer, local bus operators are running some summer special services in the town. The Skegness Seasider routes even run with hybrid vehicles.

Employees at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport are now able to catch some driverless buses. If you fancy trying it yourself, you are bang out of luck, as the entire service is “airside” (i.e. you are going to have to go through security and have a staff pass to even get near it).

The businesses of Bishop’s Stortford in Essex want to see part of one of their main shopping streets pedestrianised. So much so that the local Business Improvement District is running a campaign for it.

And they are not alone, as the landlord trying to let out an old department store in Ipswich has said that if the street outside was pedestrianised, it would make their job a whole lot easier. Businesses want less traffic outside of their stores!

Cornwall is doing some brilliant work on public transport. Reflecting that, the government is promising £50 million to create a “Cornwall Metro” service of hourly trains on many of the major branch lines.

Not content with being left behind when it comes to rail improvements, a resignalling project for Cambridge that will boost capacity through this busy section of railway has been approved. The actual scheme is not just for Cambridge itself, but goes as far as Bury St Edmunds, Ely, and Morpeth.

A Public Transport Safety Bill is being proposed in the Welsh Assembly that could benefit women looking to get around. This could include a duty on operators to ensure that women get home after dark.

Many countries are extending their climate goals beyond Net Zero to becoming “Net Negative.”

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