Birmingham City Council is preparing a £16m public realm and traffic management programme for the... continue
Construction has begun of a 2.5- mile two-way segregated cycle route on the A38 Bristol Road connecting Selly Oak and the University of Birmingham to the city centre. The track is being installed by Amey in the central reservation of the road.... continue
Merseytravel is launching the next stage of a review into possible changes to the regulatory framework for buses in the area. Consultant Steer Davies Gleave recently completed a strategic outline case of the regulatory options available to the Liverpool city region. Merseytravel will now... continue
Ride hailing app Uber has bought US bike share firm Jump. In a development towards a more multi-modal offer, Uber in San Francisco recently made Jump’s bright red shared electric bikes available on its app. The trial has developed into Uber buying the company – with reports of a... continue
The news that taxi firm Uber is to buy an electric bike hire firm called Jump prompted some analysis of what appeared to be something very like Mobility as a Service in the media, although the term MaaS did not seem to have been used by the papers. Victoria Fritz, the BBC transport’s... continue
For over 40 years John Grimshaw has been at the forefront... continue
Transport for the North’s draft strategic transport plan, on which consultation closes next week (17 Apr), is a highly significant development for the whole of the North of England. So, for the last two years, the various environmental transport organisations in the north, with the... continue
The overall and major problem with the London Assembly... continue
I first met Bob Daviesat about the same time he speaks of 30 years ago (Letters LTT 30 Mar), when we were the only ones who arrived at a meeting about cycling on bikes. So he and I have suffered in equal measure about the lack of progress on sustainability. Constantly we have been told about... continue
Richard Harris has been appointed director, Europe, for Ohmio Automotion Ltd, a manufacturer of self-driving shuttle vehicles. Ohmio is a spin-off from New Zealand’s HMI Group. Harris joined HMI last summer from Conduent, where he was director for communications, marketing,... continue
Walking and cycling consultant Jason Torrance has been appointed clean air cities director for the UK100 Cities Network Ltd.... continue
Britain is awash with innovative transport products and services, either in development or here right now. Most of the innovation is focused on big cities, where commercial operators are most likely to receive good returns on their... continue
On 23 March The Scotsman’s transport correspondent, Alastair Dalton, contemplated the ongoing ‘battle’ between pedestrians and motorised vehicles for space in our cities. “They are greener and perhaps safer than other cars, but if the future of our most popular form of... continue
Nextbike has won the contract to operate a dock-based bike... continue
Transport for London is preparing guidance for boroughs on how to implement local road user charging and workplace parking levy schemes. TfL’s new guidance on borough local implementation plans (LIPs) says: “Any net revenue from local borough road user charging or local borough... continue
Transport for London is to give each London borough a modal split trajectory, to help achieve the mayor’s target for 80 per cent of journeys to be made by public transport, walking or cycling by 2041. “Each borough will need to contribute to the achievement of an individual... continue
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John Dales
Never judge a street by its photo
My last two pieces were reflections on different aspects of the process of creating better streets. This time, I want to turn my...