Edward Gibbins Alsager ST7
Paul Withrington’s assertion that conversion of 11,000 miles of railway would “bring relief to city, town and village across the... continue

Malcolm Bulpitt, Loose, Maidstone ME15
Oh dear, Paul Withrington really cannot escape his self-imposed time warp (ibid).  Apart from in parts of eastern England, the idea of... continue

Norman Bradbury, Chair – policy, lobbying and campaigns committee, Railfuture, Worcester Park, Surrey KT4
Oh dear, here we go again. At the slightest mention of investment in railways, Paul Withrington’s apoplexy gets his facts and figures in a... continue

David Smith, The Thursfield Smith Consultancy, Shrewsbury SY3
If Boris Johnson and London First chief executive Baroness Jo Valentine want to remove congestion on London’s roads by building more roads,... continue

Baroness Jo Valentine, chief executive, London First
Is there anyone in London that doesn’t want to reduce congestion on our roads? Boris Johnson has announced a taskforce to produce a new roads... continue

Andrew Forster
In the early 1980s there was a vocal lobby for better roads in the capital. The now defunct British Road Federation had a local campaign group,... continue

Andrew Forster
The first review of London’s road network for almost 30 years got underway last week with the inaugural meeting of the mayor’s roads task... continue

Local authorities in South-East Wales have questioned the affordability of the Welsh Government’s large-scale road options for tackling... 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

TRANSPORT SCOTLAND has announced that four bidders have been selected to carry out the major improvements on the A82 due to start at Pulpit Rock next... continue

In a week when the Government announced a multi-billion pound investment programme in the railways, it may seem strange to discuss the fortunes of... continue

Your article ‘Councils revive 1960s plan for new motorway across the Peak District’ raised the spectre of a 50-year old outrageous ghost... continue

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

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

Councils in West Sussex are commissioning a study of the economic impact of building a bypass of Arundel, between Brighton and Chichester, on the A27... continue

Transport features prominently in the new City Deals announced by the Government this month for the ‘core cities’ of Birmingham, Bristol,... 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

Local authorities on both sides of the Peak District are pressing for the creation of a new motorway standard road to  connect... continue

The Scottish Government is accelerating the start of a £3bn plan to dual the A9 between Perth and Inverness, with the first section beginning... continue