Almost 8000 potholes filled in a month in Lincolnshire
July was a huge month for LCC’s Highways team with nearly 8,000 potholes repaired, hundreds of roads getting a surface treatment, and loads more traffic network improvements completed for the county. Lincolnshire County Council is powering on with a raft of road improvement, and figures now in show a stunning mid-summer of works that happened […]
Balfour Beatty VINCI moves new 84 metre Aston Church Road bridge for HS2 into place in Birmingham
In a major construction operation, Balfour Beatty VINCI on behalf of HS2 has moved a 1,600 tonne steel and concrete bridge into place in Saltley, Birmingham in just five hours. The new Aston Church Road bridge, which is 84 metres long and 21 metres wide, was moved over the existing Birmingham to Derby railway line. […]
Suffolk County Council formally objects the latest Sea Link plans
Suffolk County Council has formally objected to National Grid’s Sea Link project, because of proposals for the building of a new bridge and for construction work to take place on Sundays and Bank Holidays. The scale of a new permanent access bridge across the River Fromus is deemed hugely disproportionate. Plans show that it could […]
Reimagining the future of transport to make Birmingham accessible for all
The everyday challenges and barriers faced by disabled people in Birmingham were highlighted as part of an event seeking positive change. The accessibility audit event was hosted by Sustrans and funded by Colmore Business District (BID) and Transport for West Midlands. Sustrans is the UK-wide charity that works for and with communities, helping them come […]
Why, and how, did the sparrow cross the road? JCT Traffic Signals Symposium delegates will find out next month!
It’s not an impossible riddle, or a bad Christmas cracker joke – why and how did the sparrow cross the road is actually a key question from one of the 27 separate learned papers being presented at the popular JCT Traffic Signals Symposium in Nottingham next month. The Sparrow crossing provides fully segregated crossings for […]
Reeves considering private finance to help fund Lower Thames Crossing
The Treasury is reported to be investigating how to attract private finance to bring down the cost of the UK government’s largest planned infrastructure project, the £9 billion Lower Thames Crossing. The Guardian reports Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s department is considering handing over the income from tolls to a private consortium in return for a cash […]
American study highlights the dangers of distracted driving
A new study in the American state of Georgia has found more than half of the crashes in the state in 2022 were down to the driver being distracted. As new schemes in the UK, such as Devon and Cornwall’s use of Acusensus AI cameras to spot people using a mobile phone whilst driving, get […]
Chief Scientific Adviser joins speaker list for ITS World Congress
The Department for Transport’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Prof Sarah Sharples, has been added to the list of high-level speakers for next month’s ITS World Congress in Dubai. She’ll be taking part in a plenary session discussing how to balance the development of new tools in a single transport mode with focusing on fully integrated cross-sectorial […]
Edinburgh Tram workers back strike action over lack of toilet breaks
The Unite union has announced its Edinburgh Trams membership have ]backed strike action in a dispute over late running times to Edinburgh airport which it says is preventing workers from taking comfort breaks. Over 90% of tram workers in the ballot supported strike action. The union says more than 160 members could now take strike […]
“We had to club together £26k for a new road” – Residents pay for a new road to cover up potholes
People living on a street in Oldham say they were so fed up with the road outside their houses being difficult to drive on, they decided to take matters into their own hands. A recent TikTok has gained over 540k views of a resident sharing the before and after pictures of what once was a […]
