In April 2011 it was reported that construction of the railway has been postponed indefinitely, while the Chinese minister of Transport and Railways has been arrested on corruption charges.

Steve Bracks and Transport minister Peter Batchelor at the launch of the Regional Fast Rail project Geelong line upgrades in February 2006

He became the Minister of Police and Transport under Govind Ballabh Pant's Chief Ministership on 15 Aug 1947 following Rafi Ahmed Kidwai's departure to become minister at centre.

One of her most memorable achievements as Transport minister was to pass legislation decreeing that all ( new ) cars had to be fitted with seat-belts.

After the 1997 general election, she was appointed a junior minister in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, with responsibility for London Transport, a post she resigned before an attempt to be nominated as the Labour Party candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London in 2000.

However, China eventually shifted its position when it realised that the three links may be an opportunity to hold on to Taiwan, with its Ministry of Transport and former Chinese foreign minister Qian Qichen declaring that the " one China " principle would no longer be necessary during talks to establish the links, which would be labelled merely as " special cross-strait flights " and not " international " nor " domestic " flights.

The DVLA is an executive agency of the Department for Transport ; the responsibility of which rests with one of the department's ministerial team-the current minister responsible being Mike Penning, MP.

In 1996 his Minister for Transport, Michael Lowry, resigned from the Cabinet after allegations that he had not paid income tax on payments from the supermarket tycoon, Ben Dunne for work he had done for him as a businessman prior to becoming a minister.

In that year Ernest Marples, the Transport minister, was asked in the Commons if he could make a statement about the issue of car parking in play street ; he responded by indicating that he had only occasionally received complaints about parking issues in play streets.

The new Neo-Gaullist Prime Minister Edouard Balladur nominated a large number of UDF members to his cabinet: François Léotard ( PR ) became minister of Defense, Gérard Longuet ( PR ) of Industry, Pierre Méhaignerie ( CDS ) of Justice, François Bayrou ( CDS ) of Education, Simone Veil ( PR ) of Health and Social Affairs, Alain Madelin ( PR ) of Commerce, Bernard Bosson ( CDS ) of Transport, Jean Puech ( CDS ) of Agriculture, André Rossinot ( Rad ) of Civil Service and Hervé de Charette ( CPR ) of Housing.

* Tom Harris-former Transport minister.

* John Woodcock-Shadow Transport minister and former adviser to John Hutton.

Three others involved in the transaction, including the former minister for Economic Affairs and the former minister for Transport were sentenced to prison for ten years.

Frank Dobson, who had been Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment prior to the 1997 general election, was made Secretary of State for Health, while Andrew Smith, who had been Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, was made a junior minister at the Department for Education and Employment.

He served under Michael Howard as a shadow minister for Environment and Transport until 2005.

He was a junior minister at the Department for Health from June 2003 until May 2005, when he was appointed Minister of State for Transport having narrowly held his seat in the 2005 General Election with a majority of 664 votes.

He became a minister for the first time in the June 2009 reshuffle when he was appointed to the Department for Transport as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State.

This ended her time as Transport Secretary and cabinet minister after four years.

From 1997-9 he was shadow minister for Northern Ireland from October 1997-November 1999, Agriculture from 1999-October 2001, Local Government and the Regions until June 2002, Transport ( aviation ) until October 2002.

After the Labour Party won the 1997 general election, she served as a junior minister in the Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions and the Department of Health, before being appointed Minister of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in July 1999.

From 1999 to 2002 Wendy Alexander was a Scottish Government minister, first serving as Minister for Communities, then as Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, and subsequently as Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning.

The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport () is the senior minister at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport in the Government of Ireland.

To save his government, Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson prevailed upon his Minister of Transport Barbara Castle to sanction the building of the bridge.

Tom Fraser was appointed Transport Minister, soon to be replaced by Barbara Castle in December 1965 who decided that at least 11, 000 route miles ( 17, 700 km ) would be needed for the foreseeable future and that the railway system should be stabilised at around this size.

Boaters protest about the proposed sale of the Jericho, Oxford | Jericho Boatyard on the Oxford Canal in 2005 near St Barnabas Church, Oxford | St Barnabas Church. During the 1960s pleasure boating began to grow in popularity and replace the old trading boats, After a fact-finding cruise on the canal, Barbara Castle ( Minister for Transport ) rejected a proposal for closure.

As the Navy's activities began to be shifted to Los Alamitos the Long Beach Army Airfield at Long Beach became the home of the Army's Air Transport Command's Ferrying Division, which included a squadron of 18 women pilots commanded by Barbara London, a long time Long Beach aviatrix.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Barbara Castle at the Ministry of Transport and after 1970 was frontbench spokesman on industrial relations.

An active campaign to save the line was lost when in 1965 the then Transport Secretary Barbara Castle confirmed its closure, despite the then new Labour government promising no further railway cutbacks.

In May 1967 the Network for Development Plans were issued by Barbara Castle MP, the then Labour Minister of Transport following a study.

This time the Transport Minister, Mrs Barbara Castle, requested more information from BR, which was furnished to her successor, Richard Marsh, who took over as Transport Minister in April 1968.

At the end of 1965 UK Transport Minister Tom Fraser and his successor Barbara Castle imposed a blanket 70 mph ( 113 km / h ) speed limit on motorways in Great Britain, but the recently constructed Northern Ireland M1 remained free of a blanket speed limit for several years.

In 1966 the line was due to be closed under Richard Beeching's Reshaping of Britain's Railways plan, but was reprieved just two weeks before its scheduled closure by Minister of Transport Barbara Castle.

The Minister for Transport, Barbara Castle, announced that the Government now realised that pleasure cruising was not a pastime confined to the rich, that the British Waterways Board would have a duty to ensure that the canals were suitable for powered pleasure boats, and that of the network would be retained.

Despite being appointed to the Ministry of Transport, a role which she was originally unenthusiastic about, Castle could not actually drive herself, and was chauffeured to functions, the Labour politician Hazel Blears driving her at one time as a young Labour party activist in the 1980s.

Although it is smaller than many villages, Bishop's Castle has plenty of facilities for residents and tourists, coffee houses, cafés and restaurants, the House on Crutches, a museum of country life, and the Rail & Transport Museum, the two micro-breweries, the old cattle market in the centre of the town, for example.

The Dutch Cottage Museum contains a variety of exhibits that illustrate the history of Canvey Island, and the Castle Point Transport Museum, also situated on Canvey in the retired District bus depot, features a display of over thirty old buses, coaches and commercial vehicles.

With European Commission funding, the BBC, Transport Research Laboratory and CCETT came together in a team led by Castle Rock Consultants to develop the standard.

The Alford Valley Railway, Grampian Transport Museum, Alford Heritage Centre and Craigievar Castle are popular visitor attractions, with a range of other archaeological sites, stone circles, and castles ( including Balfluig Castle, Castle Fraser and Drum Castle ) being within easy reach by road.

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Air Medical Transport ceased operations at the end of 1986 and all business at that point was done under the names of Castle Aviation and Aeromed.

The Ministry also created the National Institute of Transit ( from the Spanish Instituto Nacional de Tránsito ), ( INTRA ) under the Transport and tariffs Directorate and was in charge of designing the first National roads plan with the support of many foreign multinational construction companies.

The ICAO should not be confused with the International Air Transport Association ( IATA ), a trade organization for airlines also headquartered in Montreal, or with the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation ( CANSO ), an organization for Air Navigation Service Providers ( ANSPs ) with its headquarters at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands.

National and regional trade unions organizing in specific industry sectors or occupational groups also form global union federations, such as Union Network International, the International Transport Workers Federation, the International Federation of Journalists or the International Arts and Entertainment Alliance.

General National Maritime Transport Company, which owns a large refinery in Switzerland, also halted oil shipments to Switzerland.

The Cairo-Dakar Highway in the Trans-African Highway network also passes through Mauritania, and has recently been paved between the capital Nouakchott and the port of Nouadhibou ; only a few kilometres remain unpaved at the Moroccan border: fr: Transport en Mauritanie.

He also assisted Campaign for Better Transport and others with campaigns on sustainable transport, particularly those relating to urban areas, and has been president of the campaign since 1986.

Transport by bus services form the main component of public transport services in New Zealand cities, and the country also has a network of long-distance bus or coach services, augmented by door-to-door inter-city shuttle vans, a type of shared taxi.

# Transport and installation of lightweight flexible solar cells also saves cost as compared to cells on glass.

Transport assistance from Australia also continued.

Pneumatic tubes ( or capsule pipelines ; also known as Pneumatic Tube Transport or PTT ) are systems in which cylindrical containers are propelled through a network of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum.

The RTSP server from RealNetworks, for example, also features RealNetworks ' proprietary Real Data Transport ( RDT ).

Siberian Huskies also served in the United States Army's Arctic Search and Rescue Unit of the Air Transport Command during World War II.

The current colours are taken from Transport for London's colour standards guide, which defines the precise colours from the Pantone palette, and also a colour naming scheme that is particular to TfL.

It was also used to transport astronauts back again from the Crew Transport Vehicle at the Shuttle Landing Facility.

The Transport layer also provides the acknowledgement of the successful data transmission and sends the next data if no errors occurred.

* 28 October 1966-Hans-Christoph Seebohm ( CDU ) succeeds Mende as Vice Chancellor, remaining also Minister of Transport.

Transport was also a problem because of the difficult roads and the lack of trucks and fuel.

These types, and the DH. 9A, a developed version that served for many years with the postwar Royal Air Force, formed the basis of early de Havilland designed airliners, including the company's DH. 16 and DH. 18 types which were operated by Aircraft Transport and Travel Limited, the first airline established in the United Kingdom, also owned by George Holt Thomas.

Rouen is also served by TEOR ( Transport Est-Ouest Rouennais ) and by buses run in conjunction with the tramway by TCAR ( Transports en commun de l ' agglomération rouennaise ), a subsidiary of Veolia Transport.

Lauritz Lauritzen ( SPD ) succeeds Leber as Minister of Transport, Posts, and Communications, remaining also Minister of Construction.

Reuben Smeed, the deputy director of the Transport and Road Research Laboratory was also a pioneer in this field, and his ideas were presented to the British government in what is known as the Smeed Report.

There is also a Fleet Air Arm museum inside the Museum of Transport and Technology ( MOTAT ) in Auckland, New Zealand.

Its main operator is the DPmB company ( Brno City Transport Company ) which also operates a ferry route serving mainly for recreational purposes at the Brno Dam Lake, and for interested also a tourist minibus providing a brief tour of the city.