Many local authorities in England are using out of date street design standards that promote road traffic and fail to comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty, urban designers... continue
Parking Review magazine has launched the 2019 edition of the British Parking Awards. Now in their 18th year, the competition encourages both public... continue
Compensating train operators for disruption during engineering... continue
Network Rail has agreed terms with Telereal Trillium and Blackstone Property Partners for the sale of... continue
Transport for the North wants a five-year funding envelope for strategic road and rail projects, which it would choose how to allocate. It is also exploring how it can increase overall funding levels, with one idea being to devolve Vehicle... continue
The Government has not replied to requests for clarification from the Home Builders Federation or the Urban Design Group (UDG) as to whether the “pause” on new level surface street designs applies to residential streets. The two bodies wrote separately to the Government last month... continue
The National Infrastructure Commission has written to council leaders representing urban areas across England, offering to support them develop plans to improve local transport, unlock employment and deliver new homes. Letters have been sent to 74 local authorities representing the 55 primary... continue
The London Borough Camden is to make permanent a traffic management scheme, against the advice of a planning inspector. But the scheme could be modified in line with the inspector’s recommendation at a future date. The Torrington Place/Tavistock Place corridor scheme, between Tottenham Court... continue
Dorset County Council has changed its mind on which shadow sub-national transport body (STB) in the South West of England it will join. The council originally expressed a preference for the Transport for the South West Peninsula shadow STB, which also covers Cornwall, Devon, Plymouth, Torbay... continue
Midlands Connect has stressed that no decisions have yet been made on the nature of a proposed ‘strategic’ road around the west side of the West Midlands conurbation. In a presentation to the West Midlands Combined Authority’s transport delivery committee, Midlands Connect said... continue
The DfT has revealed the broad corridor for a new expressway road between Oxford and Cambridge, provoking anger from wildlife groups who say it is the... continue
The A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road will open to traffic in early October. The six mile road connects Hazel Grove in the east with the airport in the west. Promoted by Stockport Council, it has been funded by the DfT. ... continue
Transport secretary Chris Grayling has granted development consent for Highways England’s A19/A184 Testo’s junction improvement scheme in Sunderland. The existing at-grade roundabout junction will be replaced with a grade separated junction by raising the A19 to carry it over the... continue
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined... continue
Opening this month, Edinburgh's Your Bike cycle hire scheme is using innovative 'hybrid... continue
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority mayor James Palmer should franchise the area’s bus network outside the main urban centres, the Cambridge & Peterborough Independent Economic Review has said. “The mayor should use his bus franchising powers under the devolution deal... continue
W hy do transport projects so often seem to end up costing much more than originally forecast? Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, of the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, has spent a lot of time researching this... continue
New guidance explains the conditions England’s highway authorities will have to satisfy in order to introduce lane rental charges for works in the road. The DfT’s decision to roll-out lane rental follows a review of the experiences of pilot schemes operated by Transport for London and... continue
The DfT is investing £10m in a new digital service to record real-time road works data. Street Manager, to be launched next year, will be free for technology companies and app developers to use. “This will allow existing apps and providers, such as Waze and Google Maps, to enhance... continue
The Government should use a portion of the new National Roads Fund for local road maintenance, the National Infrastructure Commission has said. The National Roads Fund... continue
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