The economic case for a new motorway around the west side of the West Midlands conurbation is being explored by pan-Midlands transport body Midlands Connect. An... continue
A 300-space car park opened to the public at Market Harborough station in Leicestershire on the Midland Main Line on 18 June. The opening of new car park has enabled the existing one to... continue
Essex-based Total Car Parks backed the Institute of Directors’ East of England Director of the Year Awards 2018, which were presented in Newmarket, Suffolk on 15... continue
A programme of improvements to the West Midlands’ motorway and trunk road network, including a new Western Strategic Route connecting the M5... continue
More details have been revealed of the West Midland conurbation’s public bike hire scheme, which will see 5,000 bikes introduced by next spring. The West Midlands Combined Authority has awarded Nextbike a five-year contract (with a possible three-year extension) to provide a dock-based... continue
Fifty miles of public road in Birmingham, Solihull and Coventry will be used to test connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in the Midlands Future Mobility project. Midlands Future Mobility is one of five CAV testbed sites that make up the Meridian Mobility eco-system to develop CAV testing... continue
Coventry City Council is to permanently remove 1.6 miles of bus lanes after declaring their trial suspension a success. The council suspended eight sections of lane last January using an experimental traffic regulation order, saying that doing so would reduce traffic congestion and improve air... continue
Tony Bolden makes timely comments on the need to prepare Birmingham’s transport for the Commonwealth Games in 2022 (Letters LTT 25 May). Decades of neglect of investment in public transport in favour of policies to support car use are likely to make this a challenging exercise. Birmingham... continue
A civil enforcement officer (CEO) in Nottinghamshire was attacked and hospitalised while issuing a penalty charge notice. The female patrol officer suffered multiple injuries and was hospitalised for two days. Gillian Brooks said she noticed a car parked in a Shopmobility bay. As she was... continue
Coventry City Council is standing by a city centre parking control scheme that was criticised by the chief adjudicator of the Traffic Penalty Tribunal (TPT). The tribunal upheld a group of appeals by drivers who said a lack of signs and double yellow lines within the city centre Restricted Parking... continue
Plans to build a replacement for the Saltergate multi-storey car park have been approved by Chesterfield Borough Council’s planning committee. Councillors approved the plans for the... continue
Rutland county Council has approved a 437 per cent increase in the cost of a tendered bus service after the incumbent operator withdrew from the contract. Whether the contract with the new operator will be signed appears uncertain, however, after news this week of an emergency agreement struck with... continue
Nottingham City Council is to purchase ten electric road sweepers, 15 electric cage tippers and one electric refuse truck, and will convert a further three refuse trucks from diesel to electric. The £2.8m project is part-funded by a £1.495m grant from the Government’s Joint Air... continue
Transport for the West Midlands may consider the case for closing more bus stops in the conurbation after declaring a trial in south Birmingham a success. TfWM launched the trial last October in an attempt to speed up bus services. Many bus stops in south Birmingham are spaced at short... continue
Birmingham will host the Commonwealth Games in 2022. It was due to bid for the 2026 Games but, as Durban dropped out for 2022, Birmingham has come forward and been awarded the Games. Besides the refurbishment and extension of many of its sporting venues, this also offers the city and the... continue
The intu Potteries shopping centre in Stoke-on-Trent has retained its Safer Parking Scheme Park Mark award for car parks for 16... continue
UK Parking Control was fined almost £6,000 after refusing to provide CCTV footage from a car park in Lincoln that had been requested in connection to an investigation into flytipping. Last September North Kesteven District Council was investigating the dumping... continue
Shortcomings in signing mean that Coventry City Council’s city centre parking scheme is not easily understood by motorists, the Traffic Penalty Tribunal (TPT) has ruled. Instead of road markings such as double yellow lines, the RPZ scheme uses ‘gateway’ signs placed at each entry point to the city centre to inform... continue
Motorists parking in Lincoln can now pay via Apple Pay and Google Pay when using the PayByPhone app. PayByPhone users can now select from multiple payment options, but within select UK cities such as Lincoln the app will automatically default to Apple Pay or Google Pay if the user’s... continue
A new multi-storey car park is set to open in the centre of Ipswich. The 546-space Crown car park has been created by Ipswich Borough Council to replace a structure demolished in 2009. The new £5.5m multi-storey park replaces... continue
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