The uncertainty is over. At lunchtime on Tuesday 11 February, Boris Johnson stepped up to the Commons despatch box to announce that HS2 will be built. “We can... continue
The Cambourne – Cambridge busway project has had a chequered history. The initial cost estimate was under £100m and the first phase was meant to open in 2020. The latest estimates are £160m and opening in 2024. It has been widely opposed and twice halted by the... continue
James Palmer, the elected mayor of the Cambridgeshire and... continue
Boris Johnson has promised a huge cash injection for bus services and cycling across England. The Prime Minister’s promise of £5bn of additional funding over five years for the two modes was part of a wider transport statement that also featured the go-ahead for HS2. Buses and... continue
The DfT has published more details of its £500m fund to restore old railways and open new stations across England and Wales. The grant, now known as the Restoring Your Railway Fund, will support projects in three stages of development: an ideas fund accelerating existing... continue
East Midlands Councils & East Midland Chamber (Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire): “HS2 must not short-change the East Midlands with downgraded lines. HS2 Phase 2b must be constructed from the West Midlands to the East Midlands first. HS2 must be fully integrated with the... continue
HS2 Ltd has just submitted the planning application for the proposed Old Oak Common station in west London to the Old Oak and Park Royal Development... continue
Transport for London and selected boroughs are to trial real-time monitoring of public bike hire schemes. TfL has invited software firms to bid for an 18-month micromobility data sharing pilot, which will be rolled out across the capital if successful. It could ultimately be used to monitor... continue
Pedestrians hit by buses in London were often looking the wrong way when they stepped into the road, according to Transport for London. Researchers are looking at possible ways to reduce such incidents. Claire Mann, director of bus operations, surface transport, told TfL’s safety panel:... continue
Transport Scotland is planning to restart a review of the regional tier of transport governance. News of the initiative comes as the Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership (HITRANS) prepares its own bid to take on transport responsibilities from Transport Scotland. Regional... continue
Transport Scotland has published the final version of its new national transport strategy. The document contains little in the way of new policy commitments, with most of the document taken up with a discussion of current transport/travel trends and how they relate to the Government’s... continue
A major investment in the Highland Main Line between Perth and Inverness is being urged to help bring the rail journey time between the Central Belt and Inverness down below three hours. HITRANS, the Highlands and Islands transport partnership, wants the Government to aim for a journey time... continue
Councils should be able to award exclusive area-based contracts to businesses such as recycling firms in order to cut the number of goods vehicles on streets, a consultant has suggested. Daniel Johnson, the founder of Placemaking... continue
About one in seven driving licence holders in the London Borough of Wandsworth are now members of a car club, according to the borough. Wandsworth says about 29,000 residents had a car club membership at the end of 2019, the highest number of any local authority in the country. Paul... continue
Transport for London has launched the first all-electric double-deck bus route in west London. Electrification of RATP Dev’s route 94 between Acton Green and Piccadilly Circus follows the 43 and 134 routes in 2019, and brings the total number of electric double-deck buses in the capital... continue
Stagecoach has taken delivery of two electric double deck buses in Cambridge for use on the Citi 6 route. The vehicles have been delivered by Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and BYD Europe and is the first application of the BYD/ADL Enviro400EV vehicle in the UK outside London. ADL is a subsidiary... continue
The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in China has started to affect the bus industry’s supply chain. Newport Transport was due to receive 14 new electric buses from Chinese manufacturer Yutong this month. Delivery has been deferred until April as a result of movement restrictions in China to... continue
Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram this week said... continue
A bus partnership in the West Midlands conurbation has delivered better quality bus services but failed to deliver patronage growth, councillors have heard. The West Midlands Bus Alliance was formed in 2015, and has been described as the first of its kind in the UK. Chaired by Transport... continue
The West Midlands Combined Authority has approved full business cases for the first two Sprint bus rapid transit routes. The chosen routes are the A34 between Birmingham and Walsall, and the A45 from Birmingham to Birmingham Airport and Solihull. Both will be delivered in two phases, the... continue
The West Yorkshire Combined Authority is launching an investigation into bus franchising for the area. The combined authority cannot currently implement franchising because it does not have an elected mayor, one of the franchising conditions in the Bus Services Act 2017. The local authorities are,... continue
TransportXtra is part of Landor LINKS
© 2020 TransportXtra | Landor LINKS Ltd | All Rights Reserved
Subscriptions, Magazines & Online Access Enquires
[Frequently Asked Questions]
Email: subs.ltt@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7959
Shop & Accounts Enquires
Email: accounts@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7855
Advertising Sales & Recruitment Enquires
Email: daniel@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7861
Events & Conference Enquires
Email: conferences@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7865
Press Releases & Editorial Enquires
Email: info@transportxtra.com | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7875
