Birmingham 2027 delegation agrees to close co-operation with Korea’s World Congress this year
A team from the planning committee of the 2027 ITS World Congress at Birmingham’s NEC have held a high-level meeting with people working to deliver this year’s Congress in the Korean city of Gangneung where everyone agreed to pursue closer co-operation. The meeting took place during the ITS European Congress in Istanbul, and discussed practical […]
Nottinghamshire: New £100m A1 to A46 link road opens ahead of schedule
The new 3-mile (4.8km) Newark Southern Link Road, connecting the A1 to the A46 in Nottinghamshire, has been completed almost four months early after nearly three years of construction. The road, known as Middlebeck Way, has been designed to alleviate congestion, improve journey times and strengthen Newark’s connectivity while opening up land for the planned […]
Oxfordshire: £332m Didcot to Culham River Crossing appoints new decision maker
Oxfordshire County Council are set to appoint Paul Fermer, its director of environment and highways, as the key figure in the Didcot to Culham River Crossing scheme. This decision is subject to agreement of the target cost, agreement of the programme for the works, finalising the contract terms and confirmation that sufficient funding is allocated, says […]
24-hour bus lanes to be removed in Conservative-run areas
The Conservative Party is pledging that it will remove 24-hour bus lanes in areas where they control councils after next week’s local elections in England. The policy of “bus lanes that make sense” is part of a six-point plan for drivers announced by the opposition ahead of the May polls, according to the BBC. The […]
New funding guidance for local authorities announced
Under new government guidance local authorities that fail to demonstrate they are maintaining roads effectively could lose around a third of their £1.6billion funding for the next year, says the Bournemouth Echo. Councils must now show how they are spending funding to effectively maintain roads in a move which has been called a “positive step […]
South Ayrshire to consider £5.8m Road Improvement Plan for 2026/27
South Ayrshire Council are weighing up the options for a comprehensive Road Improvement Plan for 2026/27. If approved, £5.785m would be invested in the area’s carriageways, footways, street lighting, bridges, coastal defences and wider transport infrastructure. The plan, developed by the Ayrshire Roads Alliance (ARA), sets out a detailed programme of works to be delivered […]
Bury St Edmunds Tollgate Gyratory improvement works completed ahead of schedule
Improvement works at Tollgate in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk have been completed ahead of schedule. Major construction finished today on the former gyratory layout, which has been reconfigured into a conventional signal‑controlled junction, allowing two‑way traffic movements in all directions. The completed works include reconstruction of the outer junction, with enhanced carriageway layouts, upgraded […]
No margin for error: Over 20% of drivers avoid roads at night due to ‘visibility concerns’
A new survey from the Road Safety Markings Association (RSMA) suggests that 23% of drivers avoid using certain roads at night at least once a week due to visibility worries. The survey, which informed RSMA’s recent white paper ‘No Margin for Error: How Edge Lines Impact Safety and Rural Economies’, polled 2,000 drivers across the […]
KEYSTONE demonstrates the next step towards a digital road freight ecosystem
The three-year EU-funded KEYSTONE project, of which Coventry University is a partner, is heading into his closing month and has demonstrated how standardised digital data exchange can support more efficient, transparent and connected road freight operations. The project, with partners also including the Technical University of Madrid, Etalätär Innovation and TTS Italia, consists of two […]
Gallows Corner: Pipework to be completed in the next week
In a follow-up to yesterday’s story about a further delay to the opening of Gallows Corner in Romford, Essex & Suffolk Water have announced that it now expects to complete its works by next week, allowing TfL to do “the final work to allow the flyover to reopen”. Scott Haxton, Transport for London’s (TfL) director […]