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...Transport secretary Mark Harper agreed a contract extension of up to nine years in September 2023....
...The Department for Transport said that stripping Avanti’s contract “would not resolve the long-standing issues out of their control”, and blamed the poor performance on weather conditions and Aslef’s refusal...
...Montgomery wrote that Lynch’s comments did “not in any way reflect the discussions in the room at the time.”...
...Rail passengers face more disruption this week when two transport unions launch a new wave of strikes in a long-running dispute with the train operators and government....
...RMT, the UK’s biggest transport union, has a mandate from its members until May for industrial action....
...Steve Montgomery, chair of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, said passengers would be “dismayed” by the ballot’s outcome....
...Steve Montgomery, who has been leading negotiations on behalf of train companies, also welcomed the change in tone from government....
...Ward said Mark Harper, who was appointed transport secretary last week, was “key” to resolving the dispute....
...Montgomery said the operator did now have enough drivers, but needed to train them....
...Steve Montgomery, chair of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said passenger revenues remained 20 per cent below 2019 levels and that “we have to change and move...
...Vance won the Republican Senate primary in Montgomery County where Wright Patterson Air Force base is located, as well as all of the surrounding counties....
...Steve Montgomery, chair of industry body the Rail Delivery Group, said the railway “absolutely” wants to give staff a pay rise, but that revenue was still 20 per cent below pre-Covid levels....
...Mick Lynch, general secretary of the RMT transport union, said he could not “see a landing zone” in discussions with train companies....
...“You can have lots of journeys but we are not earning the same,” said Montgomery....
...Steve Montgomery, chair of the RDG, who last week urged the union to begin talks, said: “The railway is too important to this country to allow it to decline, but with passenger revenue still 20 per cent...
...Transport secretary Grant Shapps on Friday evening urged the RMT to “call off Saturday’s strike now”....
...Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, has also blamed unions for the disruption....
...Steve Montgomery, RDG chair, said the industry had to “change our ways of working and improve productivity to help pay our own way”, adding that it was unfair to ask taxpayers or passengers to pay more “...
...“While we will keep as many services running as possible, sadly if this action goes ahead, significant disruption will be inevitable,” said Steve Montgomery, chair of the Rail Delivery Group, an industry...
...With high fixed costs, the industry burnt through about $150bn in cash within months, says the International Air Transport Association. Calls with lawyers had to be hastily arranged....
...The Financial Times has returned to its Montgomery Street office, but the likes of Uber, Google and Facebook have pushed return-to-work plans into 2022....
...(FT) Paris bears brunt of strikes As strikes against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plan enter their third week, daily disruption of the French capital’s transport networks is taking its toll, with foreign...
...When Rommel’s Afrika Korps was at the gates of Cairo, the British military made an urgent call to Pan Am’s base in Accra: Montgomery needed 15 tons of anti-tank artillery fuses....
...More than 13 per cent of average expenditure was on housing, fuel and power, and transport accounted for just over 14 per cent of overall spending. Is rising spending a good thing?...
...Mr Montgomery meanwhile argued that the potential for renewable energy in Saudi Arabia was not as great as its advocates had suggested....
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