The latest monitoring of the Welsh 20mph default speed limit has revealed a further worsening of compliance. The results also include the first snapshot of traffic speeds on roads where 30mph limits have been restored. Transport for Wales started monitoring speeds at 43 sites before the default limit changed in September 2023. The number of 20mph monitoring sites has now reduced to 38, because five were among the 52 sections of road where Wrexham council reinstated 30mph limits last year. In summer 2025, 51.5% of vehicles on the monitored 20mph roads were found to be travelling at or below 24mph. In winter 2023/24 the figure was 57.9%, falling to 52.3% in summer 2024 and 53.8% in winter 2024/25. Only 15.2% of vehicles were travelling at or below 19mph in the summer 2025 monitoring. TfW... continue
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The Government is to contribute £110m in funding towards the £200m North Hykeham Relief Road project in Lincolnshire. The remaining £90m costs will be covered by Lincolnshire County Council, which estimates the project will boost the local economy by £800m. The new dual... continue
Dualling the A9 between Inverness and Perth is a “priority” for the Scottish Government, First Minister John Swinney has re-affirmed. The widened route will create opportunities for local businesses as well as job and training prospects for the communities served by the route, he... continue
Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology is being trialled by the British Transport Police (BTP) at London Bridge railway station. BTP said it would announce dates and locations of other LFR trials before they began. Chief Superintendent Chris?Casey,?BTP’s?Senior Officer overseeing... continue
Trials of a self-driving shuttle bus have been held in the market town of Mildenhall, Suffolk, with residents given the chance to ride in the ADASTRA prototype. The shuttle can carry up to 14 passengers at speeds of up to 40mph. However, during the trial it has been limited to eight seated... continue
Wiltshire Council has reversed its decision to cut £150,000 from its community transport budget after concerns were raised by local charities. The proposal would have affected Wiltshire's Link Schemes – small charities with about 2,000 volunteers in total – who help... continue
Plans to create the blueprint for a Swiss-style integrated public... continue
Councils will find it hard to successfully implement Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) without regional leadership and adequate funding streams, concludes a report from a team of academics. “We found that local authorities needed access to extra resources boosting the limited capital budgets... continue
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) and extra bus lanes have made congestion worse in parts of the capital, Transport for London (TfL) has admitted. At a London Assembly transport committee hearing last month, TfL officials said that the implementation of LTNs has increased traffic in some... continue
A high-capacity rapid transit system connecting Bristol to its airport is one of the central ambitions in a new Transport Vision document by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA). Under the plan, mass transit, such as tram or light rail-style vehicles, would operate at high frequencies... continue
There has been a 45% drop in fatal and serious crashes on one of Cornwall’s most notorious roads since the installation of speed cameras, reports the Vision Zero South West road safety partnership. The findings are based on analysis of KSI (killed or seriously injured) data on the A38 between... continue
Many of England’s smart motorway schemes are poor value for money, evaluation reports from National Highways reveal. Analysis by the AA of National Highways’ 16 Post Opening Project Evaluation (POPE) reports shows that many smart motorway schemes are bad for the economy, or barely... continue
The Welsh Government has introduced secondary legislation for... continue
Plans to re-open the Gobowen-Oswestry branch line in Shropshire have been shelved after Rail Minister Lord Hendy said funding for the plan would not be available. In a letter to the LibDem North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan, Lord Hendy said: “I am sorry to advise that it has not been possible... continue
Network Rail’s £1.2bn plan to modernise Liverpool Street station,... continue
Transport for Wales (TfW) has appointed a senior figure from a bus group to help with appraising large franchise bids. TfW has not yet named the appointee as LTT but bus industry sources say he is Bob Montgomery, former Managing Director of Stagecoach UK Bus. TfW Chief Executive James Price... continue
Transport for Wales has multiple budget lines because it evolved rather than being created for its present roles, its Chief Executive, James Price, has explained. He had told the Senedd’s Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee last year that TfW’s budget process had... continue
Network Rail has announced plans to close Bordesley railway station in Birmingham in 2029 as part of the Midlands Rail Hub (MRH) project. The project would see two new elevated tracks connecting the lines on the existing Bordesley viaduct from Birmingham’s Snow Hill and Moor Street stations... continue
Bedford Borough Council expects to incur a final cost of about £32m on the abandoned Wixams station project. Construction of a two-platform station began in September 2024 but was halted because the announcement of the Universal theme park – forecast to attract over eight million... continue
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