Parking Review magazine has launched the 2019 edition of the British Parking Awards. Now in their 18th year, the competition encourages both public... continue
The timetable chaos that caused severe disruption on Britain's railways in May... continue
Compensating train operators for disruption during engineering... continue
Network Rail has agreed terms with Telereal Trillium and Blackstone Property Partners for the sale of... continue
Transport ticketing Apps across the UK have been hit by a technical fault at software developer CoreThree. First, Transport for Greater Manchester, Lothian Buses, and McGills are among those affected, with users reporting being unable to see their accounts or tickets already purchased –... continue
The Government should scrap HS2 and use the money saved for tax cuts and funding the NHS, Boris Johnson said this week. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Johnson said the cost of HS2 had “soared past £60bn” was “heading for £70bn” and would “probably top... continue
Many local authorities in England are using out of date street design standards that promote road traffic and fail to comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty, urban designers have told the DfT. The Urban Design Group (UDG) has highlighted the out of date practices in a letter to transport... continue
The Government has not replied to requests for clarification from the Home Builders Federation or the Urban Design Group (UDG) as to whether the “pause” on new level surface street designs applies to residential streets. The two bodies wrote separately to the Government last month... continue
The National Infrastructure Commission has written to council leaders representing urban areas across England, offering to support them develop plans to improve local transport, unlock employment and deliver new homes. Letters have been sent to 74 local authorities representing the 55 primary... continue
The London Borough Camden is to make permanent a traffic management scheme, against the advice of a planning inspector. But the scheme could be modified in line with the inspector’s recommendation at a future date. The Torrington Place/Tavistock Place corridor scheme, between Tottenham Court... continue
Dozens of low cost schemes to improve transport for Londoners will be shelved next year if Transport for London makes a suggested ten per cent cut to the formula-based corridors and neighbourhood grant paid to boroughs. The impacts of the cut are spelt out in a letter sent last week by Mark... continue
Transport for London may face a double financial hit from the delayed opening of Crossrail through central London, with additional construction costs and the loss of months of fare revenues from the new services. TfL subsidiary company Crossrail Ltd has announced that the opening of the central... continue
W hy do transport projects so often seem to end up costing much more than originally forecast? Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, of the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, has spent a lot of time researching this... continue
Cambridgeshire’s research findings on camera effects were this week challenged by retired engineer and speed camera critic Idris Francis. He has written to Cambridgeshire councillors with his own analysis of the cameras’ performance, which shows that fatal and serious collisions at... continue
More details have been released about the Government’s new electric vehicle energy taskforce, which brings together the energy and automotive industries to plan for rising electric vehicle use. The taskforce is chaired by Phil New, chief executive of the Energy Systems Catapult, and the Low... continue
The AA has criticised Westminster City Council for planning to expand its diesel parking surcharge policy boroughwide. In a letter to the council, AA president Edmund King says the application of the surcharge to all pre-2015 vehicles contradicts central government guidance and the ultra-low... continue
New guidance explains the conditions England’s highway authorities will have to satisfy in order to introduce lane rental charges for works in the road. The DfT’s decision to roll-out lane rental follows a review of the experiences of pilot schemes operated by Transport for London and... continue
The Government should use a portion of the new National Roads Fund for local road maintenance, the National Infrastructure Commission has said. The National Roads Fund... continue
Dockless bike hire operator Mobike has carried out its... continue
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