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Arriva won a Company Driver Safety Award at the annual Fleet Safety Awards presented by the road safety charity Brake earlier this summer. The award... continue
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Patrick Mcdonnell
Wirral Borough Council is considering a proposal to use civil enforcement officers (CEOs) as school crossing patrol lollipop men and women under a... continue
Wirral Borough Council is considering a proposal to use civil enforcement officers (CEOs) as school crossing patrol lollipop men and women under a... continue
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Civil enforcement officers (CEOs) in Reading look set to issue fines to motorists who illegally park on verges or pavements, and to residents who... continue
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A safety scheme aimed at preventing parents from parking dangerously outside primary schools in an area of Worcester has been declared a success by... continue
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An average speed camera system is to be trialled at a primary school in Poole, Dorset. The six-month trial of Siemens new SafeZone cameras will start... continue
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Deniz Huseyin
Tendring District Council’s Ian Taylor is bracing himself for a period of intense spending cuts as decreed by central government. Tendring... continue
Tendring District Council’s Ian Taylor is bracing himself for a period of intense spending cuts as decreed by central government. Tendring... continue
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Deniz Huseyin
Last month Oxfordshire County Council pulled the plug on its fixed and mobile speed cameras in a desperate bid to make savings. Now several other... continue
Last month Oxfordshire County Council pulled the plug on its fixed and mobile speed cameras in a desperate bid to make savings. Now several other... continue
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Feature

Patrick McDonnell
Offenders are being ‘invited’ to go back to school for speed awareness courses in a campaign to combat speeding and potentially dangerous... continue
Offenders are being ‘invited’ to go back to school for speed awareness courses in a campaign to combat speeding and potentially dangerous... continue
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Lead Story

Patrick McDonnell
Savage cuts government spending on road safety schemes could see thousands of speed cameras switched off across England and Wales. Speed cameras... continue
Savage cuts government spending on road safety schemes could see thousands of speed cameras switched off across England and Wales. Speed cameras... continue
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The general public support the coalition government’s proposal of the ‘Big Society’ but lack of knowledge holding them back.
One... continue
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IT company Mobexx has launched a lone worker safety solution for staff working in at risk environments. The new work-alone system provides companies... continue
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Q-Park has welcomed back the pedestrian bridge to its Surrey Street car park in Croydon, south London. The bridge allows Q-Park customers to access... continue
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Safer Parking

Rugby railway station has become the 500th railway car park to win Park Mark accreditation. The £7m multi-storey car park was financed and... continue
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Safer Parking

Gatwick based meet & greet company Help-Me-Park has retained its Park Mark status for the second year running.
The award recognised that... continue
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End of the line

Fun and games on London Overground were recently reported by the Going Underground blog when passengers on one particular service were treated to... continue
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End of the line

Whilst on the subject of China, the Longxiang Public Bus Company in Changsha, Hunan province has launched a new 'drive safely' campaign - by hanging... continue
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The Big Question

Sharon Grant, Chair, London TravelWatch
Only when it is safe and practical to do so. Most travellers simply want to get from A to B safely, with the minimum of fuss and expense, in the... continue
Only when it is safe and practical to do so. Most travellers simply want to get from A to B safely, with the minimum of fuss and expense, in the... continue
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The Big Question

Laurent Dauby, Director of Knowledge and Membership Department, UITP
Full metro automation is not new. There are 57 such lines in 32 cities and 13 airports, some in operation for three decades now. Driverless metros... continue
Full metro automation is not new. There are 57 such lines in 32 cities and 13 airports, some in operation for three decades now. Driverless metros... continue
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The Big Question

Bob Crow, General Secretary, RMT
Under normal circumstances I would be tempted to dismiss the idea of driverless trains on the Tube as some kind of a joke, cooked up by anti-union... continue
Under normal circumstances I would be tempted to dismiss the idea of driverless trains on the Tube as some kind of a joke, cooked up by anti-union... continue
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Park & Ride

IC2 CCTV, a Kent-based security specialist, has completed the installation of wireless redeployable cameras from 802 Global in three park & ride... continue






