The DFT has released the full written advice given by officials to transport minister Norman Baker about a controversial road scheme given the... continue

Anti-road protestors have asked the High Court to rule if a new road is a “nationally significant infrastructure project” (NSIP) just... continue

The Scottish Government has announced an agreement with Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire councils to cap  the councils’ contribution to the... continue

The Scottish Government has ruled out calls to dual the remaining single carriageway sections of the A1 between Edinburgh and the Scottish... continue

Jonathan Bray, Pteg support unit
The last spending review gave local transport spending outside London a good hiding. Local transport lacked political clout and there were built-in... continue

Transport Scotland is to award a £3 million design contract to Jacobs to tackle a traffic bottleneck at Haudagain. Work is expected to get... continue

ENVIRONMENTAL LOBBY group Friends of the Earth has asked the High Court to judicially review Transport for London’s consultation process over... continue

LOCAL CAMPAIGN group Transport Solutions for Lancaster and Morecambe has lodged a legal challenge to the decision to approve the Heysham M6 Link... continue

Kier is bidding £221m for support services firm May Gurney, in a move that could see it beat Costain to acquire the company. Kier's bid is more... continue

Andrew Forster
In 2011 Halcrow followed other well-known UK transport planning and engineering consultancies Colin Buchanan, Gifford and Scott Wilson and passed... continue

Aberdeen City Council wants to renegotiate a funding agreement with the Scottish Government for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route. Aberdeen and... continue

The story in our last issue about the Clackmannanshire bridge, ‘Traffic fails to materialise on Kincardine replacement Bridge’, reported... continue

Peter Stonham
Sir Colin Buchanan’s grandson, Paul Buchanan, this week paid tribute to his grandfather’s work in defining critical issues of transport... continue

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced the 58 schemes to be funded from the third and final tranche of the Highways Agency’s... continue

Andrew Forster
Uncertainty surrounds the future of Northern Ireland’s biggest road improvement project after the Northern Ireland Executive this week accepted... continue

The DfT has challenged the Highways Agency to “become a high performing asset management organisation” able to forecast the levels of... continue

Stephen Plowden, London NW1
Robert Cochrane (ibid) stresses the need for making the best use of the existing rail network and identifying the most appropriate forms of long-term... continue

Stephen Joseph, Chief executive, Campaign for Better Transport, London
Across road, rail and bus, Baroness Thatcher’s legacy on transport policy has been divisive and long-lasting. As Prime Minister, Margaret... continue

LTT went to the Wirral last week and was ‘driven to distraction’ by this road safety sign that appears across the road network. DONT?... continue

The Chancellor and the Welsh Government this week quashed newspaper reports saying that they are planning to fund a motorway round Newport in South... continue