Transport secretary Chris Grayling has approved a smart motorway scheme to increase capacity on the M4 in West London and Berkshire. The improvement to the 32-mile section of the M4 between junctions 3 (Hayes) and 12 (Reading West and Theale) will see the hard shoulder converted to a permanent... continue
Bus services on new bus rapid transit (BRT) routes in... continue
Transport for London will have to cut back its capital investment programme to cope with acute funding pressures, the London Assembly has warned. The budget and performance committee says TfL faces pressures on multiple fronts. Government revenue funding will be cut from £700m a... continue
Lincolnshire County Council has established a wholly-owned council company, TransportConnect, to deliver public transport and specialist transport in the county. A council spokesman told LTT: “The key purpose for establishing TransportConnect Ltd is primarily for market moderation... continue
Northamptonshire County Council’s new parking standards will encourage housing developers to provide more car parking, in response to criticisms that the current standards have created parking problems. The... continue
A network of multi-modal distribution parks (MDPs) should be built to serve the North of England’s biggest cities, says Transport for the North. The facilities would be built on the edge of urban centres and be served by road and rail/water. The idea features in TfN’s new freight... continue
Transport planning needs to be much more open about the... continue
Local transport funding in England should be derived from business rates under Government plans to allow local government to retain 100% of business rate revenues, according to the Local Government Association (LGA). The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) is consulting on... continue
The Treasury this week insisted that the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) still had a “crucial role to play” after ministers dropped plans to place the body on a statutory footing. Legislation on the NIC was to be included in a Neighbourhood Planning and... continue
Friday the 4th of November will see the first ever... continue
Transport economists may see their work on appraisal as... continue
Councils in the north of Scotland are preparing to establish a joint committee to oversee road collaboration activities. The Northern Roads... continue
Reorganisation of Wales’ 22 unitary authorities is at least a decade away, a local authority leader has claimed. Before the Welsh Assembly election in May, the Welsh Government said it intended to legislate to introduce eight or nine authorities because the councils themselves had... continue
Two London bus routes will become fully electric operations from the end of the year, London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced. The 507 (Victoria to... continue
London boroughs and Transport for London issued 4,664,281 penalty charge notices (PCNs) to drivers in 2015/16 for parking and moving traffic contraventions. The figure was just under 82,000 fewer than the number issued in 2014/15. Parking PCNs have fallen to 3,348,951, their lowest level for... continue
Fare controls could be introduced on a number of bus and rail routes in northern England to allay concerns that Arriva’s takeover of the Northern Rail franchise has diminished competition. The Competition and Markets Authority has identified four rail routes where competition could be... continue
Bus operator Yorkshire Tiger has been fined £21,750 for failing to operate punctual services. A Driving and Vehicle Standards Agency officer monitored 432 services between September and November last year, finding that ten (2%) didn’t run, 18 (4%) were more than a minute early,... continue
A project to integrate Lincolnshire County Council’s demand responsive transport (DRT) services with healthcare transport could be jeopardised by a procurement decision made by health chiefs. The project to integrate the council’s CallConnect DRT bus service with non-emergency patient... continue
The London Borough of Merton is drawing up plans for a £50 diesel surcharge on residential and business parking permits. The council hopes the charge will cut diesel vehicle ownership, thereby reducing pollution. “There is now conclusive evidence to show that diesel vehicles... continue
Transport Scotland is developing a national tariff strategy for the ChargePlace Scotland network of electric vehicle charging points. The strategy is being devised with Charge Your Car, which was recently awarded a contract to provide a back office facility for the Charge Place Scotland... continue
Six new cycleways have opened in Greater Manchester, in the first phase of the conurbation’s £42m... continue
Transport policy is underplaying the importance of air pollution on people’s health, according to academics at the University of the West of England. Tim Chatterton, a senior research fellow at UWE’s Air Quality Management Resource Centre, and Graham Parkhurst, director of the Centre... continue
Consultants are proposing further analysis of the safety of longer lorries in urban areas, as interim results from the Government’s trial suggest the vehicles cut HGV mileage and have caused few injury accidents. The DfT launched a ten-year trial of longer semi-trailers (LSTs) in 2012,... continue
The DfT may assist Britain’s troubled rail freight sector, which has been hit by the decline in sectors such as coal and steel. The Office of Rail and Road is reviewing track access charges but the DfT’s new rail freight strategy warns that a “significant increase” in... continue
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