The Government’s decision to instruct Coventry City Council to implement a class D charging clean air zone (CAZ) has been described as “heavy-handed” and... continue
The National Audit Office this week voiced concern about the value for money and deliverability of Highways England’s A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down project, which includes a two-mile tunnel beneath the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. The project lies on the A303/A358 corridor linking... continue
The Welsh Government is blaming bus operators for the high initial cost of its discount travel scheme for people aged 16 to 18. The MyTravelPass scheme started as a 19-month pilot in September 2015. A Wales Audit Office report showed that, in 2016/17, the first full year of the pilot scheme, the... continue
Transport for the North’s proposed Northern Powerhouse Rail project may have to be axed if phase one of HS2 goes over budget, the House of Lords economic affairs... continue
The City of Edinburgh Council is consulting on a ten-year plan to reduce vehicular... continue
Plans for a twin boundary low emission zone (LEZ) in Edinburgh have been published for consultation. The Scottish Government has ordered Scotland’s four... continue
projects submitted by local authorities were among the winning entries in a competition to identify transport schemes that should be funded if HS2 were scrapped. The ‘Great British Transport Competition’ was organised by pressure group the Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA) in conjunction... continue
The National Infrastructure Commission has set four tests for the Government’s forthcoming national infrastructure strategy. The strategy will form the Government’s response to the Commission’s national infrastructure assessment published last summer (LTT 20 Jul 18). It is... continue
The government should set a national strategy for buses and give local transport authorities in England long-term transport funding settlements, the House of Commons transport committee said this week. The recommendations feature in a new report into bus services outside London. The committee calls... continue
North Yorkshire County Council is reviewing responses to a consultation on the future of Scarborough’s park-and-ride services. The Filey Road... continue
Swansea’s dedicated park-and-ride bus routes are to be withdrawn, with the city’s two P&R sites in future being served by commercial routes. The contract for park-and-ride services between the city centre and the sites at Landore (1.5 miles north of the centre) and... continue
Transport for London hopes to take over the management of local rail services between London Paddington and Reading in December. The services will transfer from the Great Western Railway franchise to TfL’s Crossrail concession, held by MTR. The services had been expected to transfer to... continue
Big cuts should be made to the Crossrail 2 project to make it more affordable, the Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA) has said. The Government is currently studying ways to reduce the cost of the project that would connect the national rail networks in south-west and north-east London via a central... continue
The Welsh Government is funding a trial of flexible “out of hours” community transport after employers complained that current public transport provision impairs recruitment. The pilot appears to share the aim of the demand-responsive Deeside Shuttle, which lost its Welsh Government... continue
The Welsh Government’s concessionary travel scheme has “skewed” service provision in a way that makes buses less convenient for commuters, transport minister Ken Skates has said. In 2002 Wales was the first part of Great Britain to introduce nationwide free bus travel for all... continue
Transport for Wales has confirmed that new tram-trains for the Core Valley Lines will not have on-board toilets, despite First Minister Mark Drakeford telling... continue
The Government has approved plans for class C charging clean air zones (CAZ) in Bath and Sheffield. Proposals to improve air quality in Southampton, Rotherham, and parts of Hampshire and Surrey have also been approved. All the proposals have been drawn up to ensure the areas comply with the EU... continue
The Preparation of a cost estimate to build a rail line to Skelmersdale in Lancashire has been held up by studies into traction power options. Lancashire County Council is promoting the project to build a rail branch off the Wigan to Kirby line to the 1960s New Town. The council says the station... continue
Councils in Tyne and Wear have been inundated with responses to their consultation on introducing road charges to help meet EU legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.... continue
Councils in Greater Manchester have launched a seven-week consultation on their plan to introduce a conurbation-wide charging clean air zone (CAZ) to help meet EU limit values for nitrogen dioxide. The CAZ, to be implemented in 2021, would initially be a Class B scheme, setting minimum... continue
Britain’s car industry has questioned the realism... continue
The Freight Transport Association’s members have voiced scepticism about whether hydrogen will become a fuel for lorries. The industry body voiced its members’ doubts in evidence to the Committee on Climate Change last December, which has just been released. Said the... continue
West Sussex County Council is to build an energy storage facility from batteries previously used in electric vehicles. The project will see the council’s redundant Halewick Lane waste depot converted into a battery storage facility, storing energy from the National Grid at times of low... continue
The Tees Valley Combined Authority is procuring a contract for the delivery and operation of two hydrogen refuelling stations. The stations, along with a small fleet of hydrogen fuel cell electric cars, form phase one of the Tees Valley’s hydrogen transport initiative. The contract will run... continue
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