The Department of Transport has published its guidance on how local transport authorities can apply carbon analysis to inform the development and quantify the carbon impacts of their transport strategies and... continue
Samantha Collins-Hill has been made Deputy Director for Transport Planning at the Department for Transport,under Local Transport, Housing and Planning Director Jessica Matthew. Collins-Hill, a lawyer by... continue
A new coalition of environmental and heritage bodies has launched a mission to bring nature into the heart of urban areas in the UK. The project is led by a partnership between the National Trust, Natural England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, which is providing an initial £15.5m... continue
The Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed distribution details of the new overall £2.3 billion, three-year Local Transport Grant allocation 2026/27 to 28/29, including how the £104m resource funding component will be allocated to the authorities in smaller cities, towns and rural... continue
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced a rolling together of various Levelling Up schemes into a new Local Regeneration Fund. It is seen as part of the government’s devolution agenda. There will no longer be a differentiation between Levelling Up, Town... continue
The Government has published its draft third Road Investment Strategy (RIS), which presents only a high level vision of what the final version of the RIS (to be published no later than March 2026) will look like, with a £25bn budget already allocated for the five year period from 2026 to... continue
The draft RIS3 confirms that National Highways has been allowed to move its 2040 zero harm target by a decade. By this target nobody should be killed or seriously injured on England’s Strategic Road Network (SRN). National Highways met its RIS1 target of a 40% reduction in the number of... continue
National Highways should be investigated for misusing Designated Funds, says the Transport Action Network (TAN). The campaign group has written to John Larkinson, Chief Executive of Office for Rail and Road (ORR), urging him to investigate how the funds are being used. It also calls on him to press... continue
Only just published is the result of the DfT’s formal consultation on RIS3, on which views were sought back in 2023. It thus, presumably, may now include both pre and post 2024 General Election engagement on which this Government response on National Highways’ strategic road network... continue
The National Travel Survey (NTS) 2024 data release shows that personal travel remained similar in 2024 compared to 2023, continuing a trend of travel patterns not yet returning to pre-pandemic levels. Average trips per person remained at 922 in 2024, slightly up but significantly lower than in 2019... continue
The National Travel Survey has found that, broadly, personal travel remained similar in 2024 compared to 2023 and therefore had not returned to pre-pandemic trends. This is consistent... continue
Transport for Wales has formally acknowledged the risk that bus franchising may not deliver what is expected. The Bus Services (Wales) Bill, now in the Senedd, aims to introduce public control over all bus services operating within Wales. Franchising is expected to be the main method of delivery,... continue
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has intervened to save two bus routes that were set to stop running after operator Stagecoach pulled out on 31 August. Last month the Combined Authority Board agreed funding to go out to tender with bus operators to keep the services, but there was... continue
The West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) has started a technical procurement process, opening its “dynamic market” for potential operators. This sets out strict criteria for any bus operators seeking to bid to run services in the region. A new West Yorkshire-wide, franchised network... continue
The first Department for Transport sponsored trials of digital pay-as-you-go rail... continue
South Yorkshire’s mayor Oliver Coppard has criticised First Bus for increasing... continue
Bus journeys will be free in Portsmouth during weekends in September as part of an initiative funded by the Portsmouth Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP). Portsmouth City Council, working in partnership with operators First Bus and Stagecoach, is also using BSIP money to fund offers such as the... continue
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