Richard Brown recommends major reforms to the way financial risk is managed in future franchises. When the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising... continue

Andrew Forster
The President of the AA this week calls on the Government to “go back to the drawing board”  on its plans to reform how... continue

Local authority transport directors have criticised the Government’s decision to allocate 25% of Community Infrastructure Levy revenues to... continue

A new hub airport in the South East would require billions of pounds of public subsidy to get off the ground and would have a major impact on the... continue

Councillors in Leeds have ordered a feasibility study of an  East Leeds Orbital Road (ELOR), saying it is vital to supporting the construction... continue

Edmund Kind, The AA
How should we pay for our roads? It was a surprise even to officials that the Government’s mid-term review statement in early January contained... continue

Nexus has told bus operators to come up with an improved partnership offer if they want to avert the implementation of bus Quality Contracts. PTE... continue

Metro, the West Yorkshire PTE, says “potentially significant progress” is being made in discussions with bus operators about how... continue

Heathrow Airport Ltd may withdraw a proposed contribution to London’s East-West Crossrail project because there is currently no evidence the... continue

The Welsh Government has ordered Wales’ four regional transport consortia to allocate more than 30% of their Regional Transport Plan Grant to... continue

Welsh transport minister Carl Sargeant has announced details of the Welsh Government’s new single grant for bus services that will be... continue

The DfT has announced how it plans to allocate funding to those local transport bodies where there have been boundary disputes.  One dispute... continue

Andrew Forster
The DfT this week published indicative funding allocations for England’s new Local Transport Bodies (LTBs) but warned that the new set-up could... continue

A new pedestrian/cycle bridge across the Thames between Fulham and Battersea could attract more than one million trips a year, according to a new... continue

Transport Scotland is investing £2.4m to convert wet film speed cameras to digital equipment. There are currently 168 fixed site speed cameras... continue

Just over 3,000 claims were made to the Government’s Plug-in car grant scheme in the first two years of its operation. Since January 2011... continue

The National Audit Office has highlighted the risk of the Government's reliance on private finance to deliver transport and other... continue

Feasibility studies of Low Emission Zones are to be undertaken by a number of local authorities in England, part-funded by the latest £2m round... continue

Transport for Greater Manchester wants the Government to fund reduced public transport fares for young people, particularly those undergoing... continue

Greater Manchester’s political leaders are expected to approve a 0.6% rise in Transport for Greater Manchester’s underlying levy for next... continue