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Para pengemudi tampaknya tidak gentar dengan tingginya harga bahan bakar dan prakiraan cuaca yang buruk, sementara pekerjaan teknis mengakibatkan penundaan bagi penumpang kereta api. Pengendara telah diperingatkan untuk mengantisipasi lalu lintas libur bank Mei tersibuk di Inggris dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, meskipun harga bahan bakar tinggi dan berakhirnya periode cuaca cerah mengancam akan mengganggu akhir pekan panjang tersebut. Lebih dari 19 juta perjalanan wisata dengan mobil diperkirakan terjadi sepanjang akhir pekan panjang dari Jumat hingga Senin, menurut riset oleh organisasi otomotif RAC – yang terbanyak sejak 2016. Pekerjaan teknis juga kemungkinan akan mengganggu perjalanan kereta api akhir pekan ini. Lanjutkan membaca...

‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktankEurope’s “stone age” system of booking train tickets makes it needlessly difficult for travellers to avoid polluting flights, a report has found.Booking equivalent train tickets is “difficult or impossible” on almost half of the EU’s busiest international air routes, analysis from the Transport & Environment (T&E) thinktank shows. Continue reading...

Bank holiday traffic predicted to peak on Thursday, as petrol and diesel prices surge from fallout of Iran warBusiness live – latest updatesDrivers are being urged to hunt for the cheapest petrol and “to fill up as usual” as UK travellers prepare to make 21.7m journeys on what is expected to be the busiest Easter on the roads in four years.The average price of a litre of unleaded petrol rose by 20p from 132.83p on 1 March to 152.83p by the end of the month, raising concerns about the cost of filling up for Easter journeys, as rising oil prices triggered by the US-Israel war with Iran translated to higher prices at the pumps. Continue reading...