Companies conducting traffic surveys on local authority roads in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire will have to obtain a permit in future. The two councils are the latest to join a traffic survey permits scheme administered by Leicestershire County Council. Leicestershire introduced the... continue
The economic performance of big cities such as Birmingham may be being hampered by their reliance on buses and lack of good rail infrastructure. The CityMetric website, an arm of the left-leaning New Statesmen magazine, says many factors influence a city’s economic performance but in... continue
Nottingham City Council has welcomed Nottinghamshire’s decision to pause work on local government re-organisation. Nottinghamshire’s leader Kay Cutts announced in December she was withdrawing an outline business case for a single unitary county from the council meeting, saying the... continue
A flyover on a major radial road in the north of Birmingham... continue
The Transport Systems Catapult is commissioning research to support Highways England’s incident management and operational planning. The winning tender will develop a simulation and visualisation platform to support decision-making at HE’s West Midlands Regional Control Centre,... continue
It’s disappointing, but not surprising, that East Midlands Parkway station is only producing half the numbers predicted in its business case (‘East Mids Parkway undershoots forecast’ LTT 01 Feb). Ever since it opened it has provided two trains per hour to London but throughout its... continue
Transport for the West Midlands (TfWM) has shortlisted four tram manufacturers to supply up to 50 vehicles for extensions to the West Midlands Metro network. They are: Alstom (France), Bombardier (Canada), CAF (Spain), and Škoda (the Czech Republic). Seven suppliers responded to the... continue
Stagecoach has been awarded a five-month extension for the East Midlands Trains franchise. The contract had been due to end on 2 March but will now run until at least 18 August. The extension will ensure the smooth transition to the new franchise, currently being tendered by the DfT... continue
NCP is working with Greater Anglia to roll out automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology across 20 rail station car parks. The car park operator says its aim is to give customers greater control over how and when they pay for their parking by removing the need for... continue
A man who kicked a civil enforcement officer (CEO) in the head, knocking out three of his teeth, has been jailed for 20 months. Grant Saville received a penalty charge notice for parking in a disabled bay without displaying a Blue Badge on The Strand in Longton, Staffordshire, on 19 August. Saville... continue
An inquiry into why a new railway station in Warwickshire opened more than a year late has raised questions about how local authority-promoted rail projects are best delivered. Network Rail says it was unfairly blamed for the delay to opening the £13.2m station at Kenilworth. It says... continue
Passenger numbers at East Midlands Parkway station are less than half those forecast in the business case that justified its construction, data from... continue
The Alliance of British Drivers has launched a campaign against Birmingham City Council’s proposed Class D charging Clean Air Zone, which will see charges imposed on cars, taxis, vans, buses and lorries that do not meet minimum emission standards (LTT 18 Jan). "The daily charges are unlikely... continue
An electric car-sharing scheme is being set up in Solihull as part of the EU-funded project, InclusivEV. Car club operator E-Car Club will supply 18 Renault ZOEs and work with Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council and Solihull Community Housing. The project aims to test business cases to... continue
The University of Warwick is inviting bids for the supply of a low-cost trackform for the proposed Coventry Very Light Rail (VLR) project. The trackform must deliver a “step change reduction” in light rail installation costs. “The objective is to identify novel structures that... continue
West Midlands Combined Authority is to host a suppliers day to discuss plans to introduce car park charges across park-and-ride sites in the conurbation. The chosen system must allow cashless payment with credit/debit cards and WMCA’s Swift system. ... continue
Birmingham City Council’s decision to delay the... continue
More average speed cameras are to be installed in Solihull after councillors heard a pilot scheme had cut 85th percentile speeds to below the speed limit. Average speed cameras were introduced on three roads in Solihull and five in Birmingham in 2016. Reviewing the Solihull experience, Ashley... continue
The UK’s first Mobility as a Service (MaaS) trial is to be relaunched with new products. Finnish firm MaaS Global launched its Whim offering in the West Midlands conurbation last spring. For £349 a month Whim Unlimited provided unlimited use of public transport in the conurbation,... continue
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