Australian investor Industry Funds Management is planning to buy a 35% share of the Manchester Airports Group to enable the latter to attempt to buy... continue

Cambridgeshire busway services operated by Stagecoach and Whippet have carried some 2.5 million passengers and reduced traffic levels on the A14,... continue

MILTON KEYNES Council is to borrow £50m for planned maintenance in order to tackle a backlog of repairs. The move allows the council to start... continue

Andrew Forster
Milton Keynes Council is to switch back on almost all the streetlights on the city’s grid roads  at night following the recent deaths of... continue

The five judicial review hearings into the Government’s decision to go ahead with the London-West Midlands high-speed line will begin on 3... continue

Heathrow Airport’s owner BAA has rejected a suggestion that a new £33bn airport in the Thames Estuary should be partly paid for by... continue

The Freight Transport Association has voiced concern about the Government’s “significant policy shift” to support road tolls on a... continue

Philip Bates, Buro Happold
Last month’s announcement by the DfT of proposals to upgrade and possibly toll the A14 has reignited the debate about user tolls on our roads.... continue

The Department for Transport announced a £4.5bn investment in new trains with the award of a contract to finance, build and maintain new intercity... continue

The DfT will have spent almost £500m on consultancy fees for High Speed 2 by the time of the next General Election in May 2015. Expenditure on... continue

Officers in Cambridgeshire are recommending a £31m bypass to eliminate level crossing congestion in the historic city of Ely. But they concede... continue

HIGHWAYS ALLIANCES for the Yorkshire & Humber and Eastern regions are advancing with plans to extend collaboration to more services but some members... continue

TWO NEW runways may be needed to meet growing passenger demand at Heathrow Airport, according to a group of Tory MPs. Their suggestion came as the... continue

The DfT has given final approval for three local major transport schemes: Bath and North East Somerset’s £26.9m Bath transportation... continue

THE DfT this week rejected claims that it has made a U-turn on road tolling after ministers endorsed tolls as a way of part-funding improvements to... continue

UK Transport Secretary Justine Greening has announced the appointment of four Non-Executive Directors to the Board of HS2 Ltd. They include Richard... continue

Virgin Trains’ chief operating officer, Chris Gibb, has been seconded to Network Rail for the remainder of this year to work with the Network... continue

UK london-midlands rail route developer HS2 Ltd has awarded its final four professional services contracts for land referencing support. The... continue

Airport operator BAA expects passenger numbers through Stansted Airport to fall 5.2% in 2012 to 17.1 million passengers. This would represent a... continue

The GOVERNMENT’S policy on airport capacity was thrown into even more confusion this week with reports that the aviation industry has persuaded... continue