Garden communities at high risk of becoming car-dependent commuter estates

Date: 22 June 2020 - Juliana O'Rourke | Local Transport Today

Garden Villages and Garden Towns are at high risk of becoming car-dependent commuter estates,...

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Claim that Netherlands is more dangerous for cycling is statistical cherry-picking

Date: 21 October 2024 - | Local Transport Today

In his recent...

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Glasgow bus operators react angrily to council’s LEZ plans

Date: 13 October 2017 - Rhodri Clark | Local Transport Today

Glasgow City Council has sparked anger among bus operators by deciding to focus its Low Emission...

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Parking companies win 65.6% of private land appeals heard by POPLA

Date: 21 December 2016 - Mark Moran | Parking Review

When Ombudsman Services was awarded a contract by the British Parking Association to operate the...

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Britain’s railways continue to receive a raw deal

Date: 16 February 2018 - John Helm Chatham ME4 | Local Transport Today

If the case for rail to road conversion is as compelling as Paul Withrington makes it out to be (...

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Top 16 road schemes in England should be scrapped or paused, TAN tells Haigh

Date: 18 September 2024 - Deniz Huseyin | Local Transport Today

The Government should cancel road projects that are unaffordable and pause the rest subject to th...

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Shawcross sets out ambition for traffic-free Oxford Street

Date: 22 July 2016 - Andrew Forster | Local Transport Today

Most of London’s Oxford Street will be pedestrianised by 2020, the deputy mayor for transpo...

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There’s no viable alternative to diesel buses, say operators

Date: 23 June 2017 - | Local Transport Today

Diesel buses will remain the mainstay of urban fleets for the foreseeable future, so the Governme...

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Digital Twins @ Modelling World 2019: why do they matter for transport modellers?

Date: 17 April 2019 - | Local Transport Today

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English councils are set to generate £900m surplus from parking, says RAC Foundation

Date: 30 July 2018 - | Parking Review

Local authorities in England are predicting to make a joint surplus of almost £900m from th...

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Smart charging can reduce EV charging costs further to £400 per year

Date: 05 December 2024 - Mark Moran | EVolution

The average cost of charging an electric vehicle (EV) at home is around half of the £1,205...

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Minister announces support for police ‘close pass’ operations

Date: 03 July 2018 - Deniz Huseyin | Local Transport Today

The government will encourage police forces to tackle ‘close pass’ driving, the trans...

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Mayor and Transport for London win Streetspace appeal

Date: 16 June 2021 - Mark Moran | Local Transport Today

The Court of Appeal has overturned a ruling that Transport for London initiatives aimed at promot...

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Scotland now has 6,000 public chargers

Date: 05 November 2024 - Mark Moran | EVolution

Scotland has hit its 6,000 public electric vehicle chargepoint target two years earlier than plan...

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Scrap HS2 Ltd and rethink its seriously flawed project

Date: 13 May 2016 - Graham Nalty, Boulton Moor, Derby DE24 | Local Transport Today

I was fortunate to attend the transport workshop in York mentioned in the last issue’s View...

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Electric van drivers suffer range anxiety, says Ford

Date: 05 July 2022 - Mark Moran | EVolution

Van drivers currently underestimate the range of electric vans with an assumed average range of j...

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Are continuous footways compatible with making streets inclusive?

Date: 06 February 2024 - | Local Transport Today

The key aim of a two-year study undertaken by Living Streets into continuous footways was to inve...

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Preferred route for Arundel’s bypass avoids National Park

Date: 02 November 2020 - | Local Transport Today

Highways England’s new preferred route for the controversial A27 bypass for the town of Aru...

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Public Accounts Committee delivers damning assessment of HS2

Date: 05 March 2025 - Deniz Huseyin | Local Transport Today

The High Speed Two (HS2) programme has become a “casebook example of how not to run a...

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UK will hit emission targets if electric car uptake keeps doubling every two years, says CCC

Date: 25 June 2025 - Deniz Huseyin | Local Transport Today

A shift from internal combustion engine to electric vehicles alongside the continued decarbonisat...

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