Getting Britain back to work was the theme of chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget, whose headline announcements related to expanding free child care to help young parents and pension reforms designed to entice older people to stay in or return to work. Hunt... continue
Barclays has invested in Zedify, the UK’s largest e-cargo bike delivery network, providing a sustainable and eco-friendly delivery service across ten UK cities. The investment will enable the Cambridge-based company to significantly increase its network by rolling out the service to many other UK cities, including Manchester and... continue
Three Highland Council teams will be taking part in a Sustrans-funded E-Cargo bike pilot scheme aimed at reducing fleet emissions supporting the local authority’s wider Net Zero... continue
The Phoenix is planned to be a sustainable neighbourhood on a former industrial site in... continue
On the face of it there is much to recommend the replacing of vans – petrol or electric – with electric... continue
The Birmingham to Crewe leg of the HS2 high speed railway will be delayed by two years to cut costs, the government has announced. Transport... continue
The Government needs to change its approach in not backing specific technology solutions to decarbonise the UK’s transport sector, or risk failing its targets for cutting emissions and decarbonisation, says the House of Commons Transport Committee. The committee wants support to be given to... continue
The Government has published its response to submissions... continue
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and School Streets feature in a new... continue
The Government has published a new policy paper presenting an action plan for reforms to the planning process in respect of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. It reviews operation of the system to date and sets out five steps to meet the objectives of ensuring the NSIP consenting... continue
In their review of the NSIP system to date the Four Secretaries of State say “the increasing number of projects seeking consent, their complexity, and the need for greater focus, certainty and speed is challenging everyone with a role to play in effective consenting. As the system adjusts to... continue
Direct testing and learning has been used to inform the reform programme, principally through the proposed A66 National Highways DCO. A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Project case study. Under this in 2020, National Highways in collaboration with government departments and agencies targeted a 50% saving... continue
Waiting times for pedestrians at signal-controlled crossings should be made shorter, says Living Streets. As part of a new campaign, the charity is asking members of the public to nominate a crossing for their local authority to review, in a bid to reduce the waiting time and improve... continue
Cardiff Council is trialling a signalised pedestrian... continue
The Transport Technology Forum’s Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Working Group is committing to producing further guidance designed to help council officers’ rollout the required infrastructure to keep pace with the adoption of EVs. The group of public and private sector... continue
The one-year Post-opening Project Evaluation (POPE) for the A30 Temple to Higher Carblake dualling in Cornwall found traffic volumes on the completed infrastructure to be lower than had been forecast in both the with-project and without-project scenarios. Traffic forecasts were already off course... continue
Plans to convert a section of the A47 near Peterborough from a single to dual carriageway has been approved by transport secretary Mark Harper despite the inspector recommending against. The A47 Wansford to Sutton application involves the dualling of the A47 between the A1 and the dual carriageway... continue
A clearer definition of what constitutes a ‘rural road’ could help cut the number of people killed and seriously injured on them, believes the RAC Foundation. Government statistics – from police crash reports – show that of the 1,558 road deaths in Britain in 2021, 981 (63%)... continue
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