The stresses of a very tough year are made clear in the annual report and accounts for the DfT for 2020-21. The impacts of the pandemic on both transport service delivery and expenditure are among the issues addressed in the 300-page document. The DfT’s permanent secretary Bernadette Kelly... continue
Targets set by the Climate Change Committee in its sixth carbon budget will be missed because of a lack of focus, commitment and resources at a local level, Professor Greg Marsden has... continue
The Scottish Traffic Commissioner, Claire Gilmore, says her office must be given the financial support it needs in order to cope with increased demands resulting from implementation of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019. The Scottish Government, unlike its Welsh counterpart, currently provides... continue
The Government’s Spending Review will need to make significantly more funding available for... continue
The creation of Great British Railways (GBR), as outlined in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, will not deflect the Welsh Government’s ambition to integrate transport and provide a common branding, according to Transport for Wales chief executive James Price. The Williams-Shapps Plan said... continue
Mobility hubs are due to be trialled across the West Midlands this autumn, Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has announced. TfWM said the mobility hubs could include: shared transport such as e-scooters, cargo bicycles, West Midlands cycle hire, bike loans, electric car club vehicles and... continue
HS2 has begun restoring one of the world’s oldest railway buildings on the site of its planned Curzon Street station in Birmingham. The Grade 1 listed building has been integrated into HS2’s plans for the new Curzon Street Station, which will provide an enhanced setting to reflect the... continue
East Lothian Council has approved plans for a new station on the East Coast mainline in the village of East Linton. The two-platform station will be fully accessible with lifts and a footbridge connecting both platforms, and will have 126 car parking spaces. Scottish transport minister Graeme... continue
FirstGroup is preparing to launch a budget open access train service between London and Edinburgh on the East Coast Main Line next month. The move comes as regulators deny a claim, in the last issue of LTT, that their decisions are unfair to open access operators. The budget service, called Lumo,... continue
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) and local transport operators are offering newly employed people free travel on bus, tram and rail services. Through the Workwise scheme, residents who have gained a new job will get free travel for eight weeks and then half price tickets for a further four... continue
Swansea Council intends to provide free bus travel for everyone in the next two school holidays, following a surge in passenger numbers when free travel was provided on Fridays to Mondays throughout August. The authority used some of its £20m Covid-19 recovery funding to allow free travel on... continue
Cardiff Council has installed raised footways across the entrances to side roads on Cowbridge Road East, a long residential and shopping street west of the city centre. Give Way markings for vehicle drivers have been moved back, to reinforce that pedestrians walking along Cowbridge Road East have... continue
Every village in Wales will have a safe cycle route to the nearest town and hourly public transport, if an ambitious Welsh Government plan comes to fruition. Details of the “rural offer” are due to be revealed next year, in the delivery plan for the Llwybr Newydd transport strategy. LTT... continue
The Government has announced a new round of funding worth £9m to help councils in England improve air quality. The Air Quality Grant... continue
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority is seeking £4.2m funding from DfT for a new Zero Emission Buses Regional Area (ZEBRA) scheme for Cambridge. The funding would cover the cost of 30 electric double-decker buses, which would be used on short busy routes in the city... continue
The start date of a Zero Emission Zone (ZEZ) trial in Oxford city centre has been moved from December 2021 to February 2022 to allow more time to “resolve technical complexities” said Oxford City Council and... continue
An electric bike pilot scheme is being rolled out in five locations across Wales – Rhyl, Swansea, Newtown (with links to Aberystwyth) and Barry – offering free loan of the bikes to residents. The scheme, which has received £1m funding from the Welsh Government, is being run by the... continue
An electric cargo bike share scheme has been launched in the London borough of Hackney. Eight electrically assisted cargo bikes will be available to rent from four docking stations across the borough, with two in Shoreditch, one in London Fields and one in Stoke Newington. Each of the e-cargo... continue
Coventry’s cycle hire scheme has been expanded to Coventry Railway Station and the University of Warwick campus, with an additional 75 bikes and nine new docking stations made available to users. Seven of the docking stations are on the University of Warwick site while the other two... continue
Drivers of electric vehicles want more reliable and easier to use charge points. The road and rail watchdog group Transport Focus suggests that more people would switch from petrol and diesel cars if the charging network was better. In its report Plugging the gap: Drivers’ experiences... continue
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