Timetables look likely to disappear from bus stops in Suffolk in a move that could save the council £100,000 a year. The removal of bus stop timetables features in Suffolk County Council’s budget proposals for 2019/20. A county spokesman told LTT: “This reflects the... continue
The use of public resources to help loss-making municipal company Cardiff Bus is starting to be queried, amid concerns about fairness to other bus operators. The company, owned by Cardiff Council, has acknowledged it could go bust unless it returns to profitability, and proposes service cuts... continue
Hostility towards the HS2 project within the Cabinet is growing, according to media reports this week. Channel 4’s Dispatches programme, ‘HS2: The Great... continue
Lancashire County Council has deferred a decision on... continue
Councillors on Manchester City Council have voted in favour of bus re-regulation in a motion calling for the alleviation of transport poverty. Manchester’s full council approved a motion tabled by Labour councillor Nasrin Ali, which said the council “fully supports the... continue
Outer London boroughs say they are not seeing evidence of Transport for London’s pledge to re-allocate bus resource from central and inner London to the suburbs. Mark Frost, chair of the Local Government Technical Advisers (LoTAG) Group 1, and head of traffic and transport at the... continue
The Government is underfunding the mandatory free off-peak bus travel scheme in England outside London by £652m a year, the Local Government Association has claimed. The estimate has been calculated in work by Paul Woods, chief finance officer for the North East Combined Authority. His... continue
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority is delegating responsibility for bus services back to Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council for another year (2019/20), as the CA launches the next stage of its bus review (LTT 01 Feb). Cambridgeshire County... continue
The DFT has issued a call for evidence on opportunities to... continue
The economic performance of big cities such as Birmingham may be being hampered by their reliance on buses and lack of good rail infrastructure. The CityMetric website, an arm of the left-leaning New Statesmen magazine, says many factors influence a city’s economic performance but in... continue
Transport for London has taken emergency action to maintain a passenger rail service on the newly-electrified Gospel Oak to Barking line. The line’s fleet of eight two-car diesel multiple units is being progressively re-allocated to the West Midlands franchise, with all sets due to... continue
The Welsh Government will urge the UK Government’s rail review led by Keith Williams to recommend devolving rail infrastructure in Wales, to complement the Wales and Borders franchise, which has already been devolved. Welsh transport minister Ken Skates raised the issue when he met Williams... continue
A rail chord could be built in Medway, Kent, as part of a plan for a passenger service to a new town. The track could also enable some freight traffic to bypass lines in south... continue
The anticipated final cost of the western section of the East West Rail project is £1.091bn (excluding VAT), the DfT has revealed. The western section features rebuilding and upgrading rail lines to provide new connections between Bicester/Aylesbury and Milton Keynes/Bedford (LTT?14 Dec 18).... continue
The Cardiff Capital Region Transport Authority (CCRTA) says that comparing the value of spending on rail versus other modes of transport is impossible because the... continue
Bus franchising and free bus travel for the under 30s are vital components of a transport policy to cut UK carbon dioxide emissions, says Transport for Quality of Life in a report on reforming public transport to help achieve the Paris Agreement goals on climate change. Report authors Lisa... continue
A national programme to re-open 33 railway lines across Britain between 2020 and 2035 is being urged by the Campaign for Better Transport. The lines were selected from a long-list of 224 possible re-openings. Schemes were initially subject to a pass/fail test according to their broad... continue
York’s biggest bus operator has welcomed the council’s new plan for a bus-based clean air zone (CAZ), which should be implemented in January 2020. Councillors last month approved the CAZ covering the city centre and inner ring road. It will require buses to be Euro VI or better, except... continue
Municipal operator Lothian Buses says the newest diesel buses are preferable to electric. The comment comes in a new vehicle investment strategy, which outlines how the operator’s fleet will transition to Euro VI standard. Lothian’s current fleet breakdown is: 1 per cent fully... continue
The DfT has awarded £48m to help the purchase of 263 ultra-low emission buses and supporting infrastructure, such as electric charging points. The funding will be shared by 19 organisations across England and Wales. Seventeen of the awards are for contributions towards electric vehicles... continue
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