Britain’s first climate Citizens Assembly completed its sessions this weekend, outlining a plan that lists the carbon-cutting measures they want their district to put in place in order to manage climate change. The 'wishlist', as The Guardian called the outcome, will be considered by the council as it... continue
Data is playing an increasingly important part in the drive towards infrastructure which is better designed, planned, better value and more sustainable whilst underpinning productivity, health, and education. This is where the... continue
Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region (LCR), has announced plans to make the Liverpool City Region the most digitally connected in the country, underpinning ambitious projects to improve vital energy, transport and digital communications infrastructure. LCR will build on its existing assets: the transatlantic internet cables connecting the UK, North America and the rest of the world... continue
Hampshire County Council is advising electric car owners... continue
Major reforms to how Britain’s railways are governed will be recommended by the Williams Review this autumn. In a speech last week, Keith Williams said: “I have been frank with the DfT about the scale of change required – including a different role for the DfT – to create a... continue
England’s non-statutory sub-national transport bodies (STBs) are preparing a joint response to the DfT after transport secretary Chris Grayling told them he does not want to create more statutory STBs at this time. Transport for... continue
Some of Transport for the South East’s constituent authorities have expressed concern about the powers that it?is seeking, should it become a statutory sub-national transport body. TfSE is consulting stakeholders on acquiring a wide range of powers when it becomes a statutory body,... continue
Average speed cameras are to be installed in England and... continue
The Government has announced a two-year review of roads policing and traffic enforcement, as part of a wider road safety action plan. The review will be jointly funded by the DfT and Highways England, and conducted with the Home Office and the National Police Chiefs’ Council. A call for... continue
The Government should set up a Highways Safety and Standards Board to provide road safety guidance to local authorities, sub-national transport bodies and Highways England, the Road Safety Foundation says in a report this week. The Foundation says a survey of 30 local authorities found that... continue
Greater Manchester’s political leaders reacted angrily this week to the Government’s direction that they must implement a Class C charging clean air zone across the whole conurbation in 2021, without saying how much grant... continue
Residents of Tyneside have given a resounding thumbs down to road charging plans designed to ensure the area complies with EU limit values for nitrogen dioxide. More than 20,000 people responded to the consultation on the options of city centre bridge tolls, a charging clean air zone, and a... continue
Essex County Council and Basildon District Council are exploring how to bring NO2 concentrations down below legal limit values. The Government originally ordered the two councils to develop a clean air action plan for a section of the A127. Essex this week published a speed limit order?to reduce... continue
James Palmer, the mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, wants the Government to grant the body sign-off rights for future rail franchises covering the area. Palmer voiced frustration at the lack of progress being made in his attempt to persuade CrossCountry to improve... continue
The DfT has invited the rail industry to bid for a share of £20m for small-scale improvements to make rail stations across Britain more accessible to disabled people. The funding will pay for measures such as tactile paving, handrails and ‘Harrington Humps’ that increase platform... continue
The UK and Scottish Governments are to jointly fund investigations into extending the Borders Railway from Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders to Carlisle. Each... continue
Doncaster council has published details of its preference for the eastern end of a new Trans-Pennine road connecting Greater Manchester with the Humber Ports via a tunnel under the Peak District. Highways England and Transport for the North are exploring the idea of a new trans-Pennine road... continue
Work is continuing on a plan for an intercity rail station serving Doncaster Sheffield Airport and offering park-and-ride for rail passengers. Doncaster Council is working on the idea with Doncaster Sheffield Airport, the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority, Network Rail and Transport for the... continue
The DfT has once again ruled out local authority requests for moving traffic offences outside London to be decriminalised. Local authorities in Greater Manchester requested the power as part of their clean air plan proposals. But environment minister Thérèse Coffey told them this... continue
All buses and taxis in Wales will be zero-emission by 2028, the Welsh Government has announced. It hopes that new funding sources will cut the costs of acquiring electric buses. Wales currently has no electric, hydrogen or gas buses in routine service. The Welsh Government has not funded any... continue
A second study of a public transport route from Llantrisant to Cardiff has been commissioned, four years after the first one that remains unpublished. Rhondda Cynon Taf Council (RCT) has appointed Mott MacDonald to the £135,000 study on behalf of itself, Cardiff Council and the Welsh... continue
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