The promoter of a 60-tonne, 25.25-metre lorry is waiting to hear if the DfT will approve his proposal for on-road trials of 1,000 of the vehicles. Dick Denby,... continue
A national Infrastructure Police Force to protect the strategic road network, railways and other vital infrastructure, will be created if the Conservatives win the General Election next month. The force will bring together the British Transport Police, which polices the rail network,... continue
Some of Network Rail’s plans to close level... continue
The Welsh Government is coming under fire for not... continue
The Welsh Government is proposing to introduce common... continue
The Secretary of State for communities and local government may have... continue
The city of London Corporation looks likely to retain the majority of its zebra crossings after a review concluded that replacing them with signalised crossings would only cut traffic delays in a minority of cases. The City’s review of 15 zebras follows its recent conversion of a zebra... continue
A major change to traffic flow in the City of London came into... continue
The Conservative manifesto for next month’s General... continue
Northamptonshire County Council has revealed more details of its proposed joint venture with a private sector partner to deliver the council’s place-based services, including transport. An engagement day for companies interested in bidding for the ten-year ‘managing agent... continue
The London Borough of Barnet is to try and recover the costs of footway damage caused by skip lorries and other vehicles involved in property refurbishments. Barnet says lorries collecting loaded skips from driveways or front gardens of houses under renovation often exceed the weight that... continue
A labour Government would build new stretches of railway to relieve the London-Brighton main line, according to the party’s manifesto for the General Election. The commitment is one of the late changes made during drafting of the manifesto. The final document was published last week,... continue
Research by Sustrans Scotland shows that the top ten locations for cycle injury accidents are all within Edinburgh. Cycle accident clusters between 2005 and 2014 across Scotland were identified using the STATS19 accident dataset, which holds details of accidents in which a casualty has... continue
The Conservatives have promised to abolish tolls on the Severn Crossings if they win the General Election. In its manifesto for Wales, the party says it will press the Welsh Government to deliver much-needed road improvements, including the M4 relief road at Newport. “We will also scrap the... continue
Network Rail’s Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP) has suffered a further delay after a fault was discovered in one of the components that has already been installed. The news comes three months after it emerged that some of the new electrification equipment on the Gospel Oak... continue
The operator of the Daventry Intermodal Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) in the Midlands has published an estimate for how many lorry miles the trains remove from the road network. The release of data by WH Malcolm follows the Government’s recent decision to reduce the subsidy given to support... continue
A routemap to the introduction of truck platoons on Europe’s roads has been published by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA). ACEA says truck platoons will reduce fuel consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, improve safety, and make better use of road space. Their... continue
Rival policies on ways to address the national housing shortage are at the top of the political agenda just at the moment but concern for the travel implications of where new housing might be built seems to be close to an all-time low. When was the last time you heard ‘sustainable... continue
Swansea council could follow in Cardiff’s footsteps and take over the enforcement of moving traffic offences from the police. Cardiff is the first authority outside London to penalise drivers for Moving Traffic Offences using powers available to all Welsh unitary authorities. Cardiff... continue
The City of York Council is to trial the light segregation of a cycle lane to protect it from motorists encroaching it as they pass over speed cushions. Triple speed... continue
Bath and North East Somerset Council (B&NES) says its signed-only 20mph limits have delivered few benefits and there is no case for extending the programme to more streets. The council spent £871,000 between 2011 and 2016 implementing 20mph limits on 1,499 streets. Officers... continue
With so many powers now devolved to the National Assembly for Wales, Plaid Cymru’s manifesto has little to say about transport. The party does, however, criticise the Labour-controlled Welsh Government, saying it is “determined to blow Wales’s borrowing budget on an M4 relief road... continue
The Green Party would scrap HS2, major road improvements, and all... continue
UKIP would scrap the HS2 “vanity project” and plans for the “environmentally... continue
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