At the end of last month, Anne Hidalgo was re-elected as Mayor of Paris with a mission to remove many cars... continue
Activity at English airports will gradually start increasing following the UK government’s decision to revise its quarantine... continue
New regulations allowing trials of rental e-scooters will come into force on Saturday 4 July 2020, Transport Minister Rachel Maclean has announced. The first trials are expected to begin... continue
This guidance applies to the Traffic Orders Procedure (Coronavirus) (amendment) (England) regulations 2020 (Statutory Instrument No.... continue
Kent County Council has welcomed news that government has awarded it... continue
Environmental campaigners are calling on Transport for London to cancel construction of the twin-bore Silvertown Tunnel under the River Thames in East London. TfL awarded a design, build, finance and maintain contract for the tunnel to the RiverLinx consortium in November 2019. The crossing... continue
Brighton and Hove City Council is planning to procure a... continue
The DfT has commissioned a review of options for the Euston station rebuild, to inform a decision in the autumn. HS2 minister Andrew Stephenson told MPs this week: “In response to the Oakervee Review, the Department has commissioned a study looking into the efficiency of the future station as... continue
More local authorities have revealed the size of the funding pressures they are facing because of Covid-19. London boroughs are projecting additional spend and income loss of £1.8bn in 2020/21 (additional spend £709m and lost income £1.1bn). Taking into account Government... continue
Green party councillors in Norwich say Norfolk County Council is not doing enough to deliver temporary traffic management schemes to help pedestrians social distance. Norfolk and Norwich have deployed stencilled and temporary signs to encourage people to walk on the left hand side of the... continue
The London Borough of Newham is to redirect some of its special road maintenance budget to wider transport investments that would normally be funded by Transport for London. The borough is in the fifth year of its ten-year ‘Keeping Newham Moving’ programme of carriageway and... continue
There was surprising unanimity amongst the five panellists at last week’s LTT online discussion about how the car fits into the UK’s changing travel patterns. Even the representative of car maker Nissan, Peter Stephens, its head of UK external and government, recognised that traditional approaches to car ownership and use were disappearing, and a more flexible and sustainable model of travel choices emerging. Nick Reed, the former head of mobility... continue
Highways England is funding an electric vehicle loan project for businesses in Nottingham, with the vehicles eventually destined to become part of the city council’s vehicle fleet. HE has awarded £2.69m to the project from its air quality fund. Most (£2.1m) will be used to... continue
Network Rail is exploring the case for creating three new east-west rail arcs across central southern England, the geography of the England’s Economic Heartland (EEH) grouping of local authorities. The investigations are part of the ‘England’s Economic Heartland passenger... continue
Drivers might have to pay more through mechanisms such as road user charging and workplace parking levies under plans to reduce single occupancy car use presented by non-statutory sub-national transport body England’s Economic Heartland. The EEH’s draft transport strategy includes... continue
England Economic Heartland’s will commence a 12-week consultation on its draft transport strategy on 14 July. To emphasise the strategic significance of East West Rail, the strategy refers to the proposed new railway between Oxford and Cambridge as the “East West Main... continue
The Government’s programme of garden towns and garden villages is little more than ‘greenwash’ when it comes to transport, with most developments likely to end up being car-dependent commuter estates, according to a report by the Transport for New Homes project. The report... continue
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