Data posted on a map from not-for-profit Widen My Path is showing where councils have taken measures to create safe space for social distancing, and to identify where where measure are still needed. Many local authorities have closed streets for... continue
The City of Edinburgh Council plans to end competition between its tram and bus compnaies by creating a single company. Municipally-owned Lothian Buses has continued to compete with the Edinburgh Tram on the airport to city... continue
E-Scooters The first trials of e-scooters on public... continue
Academics and other policy specialists sympathetic to the objectives of climate direct action group Extinction Rebellion (XR) have formed a new group to explore how to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions long before the UK’s 2050 statutory target (2045 in Scotland). The XR Braintrust... continue
The public bike share schemes in Edinburgh and Glasgow are being temporarily made available free of charge with funding from the Scottish Government. The initiative coincides with the relaxation of lockdown restrictions in Scotland. The Government is keen to ease pressure on public transport... continue
Dumfries and Galloway Council is exploring if illegal activities contributed to the council losing more than £3m on a road maintenance contract. The probe focuses on the council’s former trading arm, DGFirst (later ‘Enterprising Services’), which was closed last... continue
Matthew Eastwood has joined Transport Scotland’s low carbon economy directorate on secondment from the Energy Saving Trust. He is working on the directorate’s ‘work local’ initiative, supporting post-Covid economic recovery by enabling a “digital and distributed... continue
QRoutes, a provider of software solutions for local authority transport planners, has launched a new product, QPaths, which will automate... continue
COVID-19 and lockdown has offered us a glimpse of what less car-dependent streets could look like. Air quality levels... continue
The International Parking Community (IPC) has launched two... continue
Cashless parking provider RingGo has launched a shop-based payment option in collaboration with PayPoint. The... continue
Smart Parking will be enforcing parking at KFC drive-thru sites across the UK and Ireland. The company will be using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology to ensure the drive-thru car parks are being used fairly by genuine KFC customers. Alongside its proprietary ANPR solution, the... continue
Q-Park has issued a warning about companies falsely offering investment opportunities in the parking company’s name. The companies go by the names of Saran Investments SA and Cimovelpark. Q-Park said is not associated with either of these companies and that they do not represent the company... continue
When Costa Coffee reopened one of its UK branches as a drive-thru only in early May, the queue of... continue
The parking sector is urging the public to respect others and think first when... continue
A problem faced by many disabled motorists is not being able to park at their desired destination, especially at... continue
There is a real danger that as we come out of lockdown the independence of disabled people will be eroded. As the UK’s shops and retail... continue
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Are we getting too close, too soon?
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we live, work, shop and, now, play. For months the nationwide lockdown meant people...