Reversing Beeching and electrifying scooters: £500m fund to reopen train lines closed in 1960s leads raft of green transport initatives

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Further investments have been announced in the Tyne and Wear Metro and Middlesborough train station, while the government's Bus Open Data Service also went live yesterday

Re-opening train lines, building new stations, digitising bus timetables, and legalising electric scooters are among a raft of initiatives being pursued by the Department of Transport (DfT), as its steps...

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