Andrew Forster
London’s government should have more power over tax and more freedom to borrow to ensure the capital’s transport infrastructure can keep... continue

Local authorities in the North East of England are drawing up plans for a Combined Authority that will lead to the demise of the Tyne and Wear... continue

The West Yorkshire integrated Transport Authority looks set to be scrapped under plans of the five West Yorkshire districts to set up a new Combined... continue

Andrew Forster
THE Leaders of the seven metropolitan districts in the West Midlands are to take control of transport policy in a shake-up that will see the demise... continue

Gavin Smith, Lower Knowle Farm, Bristol BS3
The row that has blown up between Bristol’s new mayor and North Somerset Council – the latter still wanting its commuter Bus Rapid... continue

Adrian Davis, Independent consultant
One hundred and one years after the compulsory appointment of medical officers of health by local authorities, the NHS Reorganisation Act 1973 set in... continue

The Government this week presented local transport authorities in England with the chance to secure significantly more funding for transport with... continue

A Welsh Government task force has ruled out creating a new transport agency to drive forward transport improvements in South East Wales. The task... continue

Local authorities in the Liverpool City Region (LCR) are reviewing their potential role in the North of England’s rail devolution plans because... continue

Andrew Forster
There’s still more than two years to go before England’s new local transport bodies (LTBs) take control of the DfT’s major... continue

The Government is taking forward City Deal negotiations with every one of the 20 areas that were invited to bid in the second wave. The deals could... continue

Local authorities in the Sheffield City Region hope to have a Combined Authority set up to manage transport and economic development by next April.... 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

Andrew Forster
Transport has always fascinated Dave Merrett. As a child he ran the school transport society; it wasn’t all steam trains, there was Scalectrix... continue

Local Transport authorities in the North of England are to be sent a prospectus setting out how local rail services could be governed under devolved... continue

The Government’s rail franchising adviser has called on ministers to devolve responsibility for more English rail franchises to local... continue

DfT ministers were still grappling with how to resolve the geography of local transport bodies in three parts of England as LTT closed for press. In... continue

Gavin Smith, Bristol BS4
The transport role of Bristol’s new mayor is in the balance. People are asking what effective co-ordinating powers he will have. The issue... continue

New transport governance arrangements could be set up in the Solent area of the South Coast, with Portsmouth City Council floating the idea of an... continue