It’s a year since I sold my Audi A3 convertible. It was a 50th birthday present to myself, and while (like its owner) it was getting a bit long in the tooth, it still drove fine. So why did I give it up? In November 2022, I did the Carbon Literacy Project online course. It hit me at once we need climate action now. Before that, like most people, I was aware and concerned but felt we had time to “sort things out” before 2050. The CLP course showed that isn’t true. To stabilise temperatures, we need to peak worldwide emissions by 2025 and halve them by 2030. UK transport emissions must reduce by 70% by 2035. That’s some challenge. To gain CLP certification, you pledge to reduce your emissions. My pledge was to cut car use. What did I... continue
Transport research and advocacy group Enroute has launched its strategy for 2024-25 to build the case for sustainable transport investment and usage. The Community Interest Company (CIC) was initially established as Sustainable Transport Midlands (STM) in mid-2021, before undergoing a rebranding in... continue
A strategy for ‘Professionalising the Profession’ has been published by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT UK). This will recognise and celebrate the... continue
Becky Hickman has been promoted to the role of Chief Executive at The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). Hickman,... continue
Ed Downer has joined consultants and engineers Buro Happold as Transport and Mobility Associate. Prior to a four-month career break, he spent nearly seven years as... continue
Christopher Mills is new Transport Strategy and Planning Programme Manager Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority. He was previously Mobility and Transport Discipline Director at Buro Happold for a year, prior to which he spent three years as Senior Associate Strategy and Planning at... continue
Mark Frost of Fern Consulting Services has been elected new Policy Director at the Transport Planning Society (TPS). He is sharing the post with Steer’s Lisa Martin.... continue
Expecting big gains in council seats next month, Labour launched its local election campaign fronted by leader Sir Keir Starmer and his deputy in the West Midlands just before Easter, promising more support on devolved policy initiatives in areas like local transport... continue
The Department for Transport has promised to embed consideration of... continue
Cornwall Council is to go ahead with plans to build the A39 Camelford Bypass despite the cost tripling over original estimates to £147M resulting in a benefit cost ratio of only 0.74 putting the scheme in the “poor” value for money criteria. The council is having to submit an... continue
Sometimes you hear a speaker in a podcast and say to yourself: “Oh, yes! I know exactly what you... continue
Concerns at the need for greater scrutiny over public expenditure... continue
Continually reviewing a major project’s delivery model is highlighted as a key message from experience with the £19bn Crossrail project in a new report published jointly by the Department for Transport (DfT)... continue
Senior transport and traffic professionals have given their forthright reactions to the tranche of new traffic guidance introduced by the Government just before Easter in support of its Plan for Drivers. The range of new notices and regulations was covered in the last issue of LTT including... continue
The Government has obtained the required Parliamentary approval of the new National Networks National Policy statement (NNNPS), after a thinly attended short 90-minute debate just before the Easter recess. There was some criticism from the few MPs who spoke, including Labour Shadow Transport... continue
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