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燃料価格の高騰やどんよりとした天気予報にもかかわらずドライバーはひるんでいないようだが、一方で工事により鉄道利用客には遅れが生じている。燃料価格の高騰や、連休を台無しにしかねない晴天の終わりの兆しにもかかわらず、英国のドライバーはここ数年で最も混雑する5月のバンクホリデーの交通渋滞に備えるよう告げられている。自動車団体RACの調査によると、金曜日から月曜日までの連休中に1,900万件以上の車でのレジャー旅行が見込まれており、これは2016年以来最多となる。今週末は工事によって鉄道の運行も乱れる可能性が高い。続きを読む...

‘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...