New Active Travel routes for Bath and North East Somerset

Work is set to start on three walking, wheeling and cycling routes along the A36 Beckford Road and Sydney Place in Bath. Further work has begun at Bear Flat, where the measures will also help improve bus reliability on the A367. In Royal Victoria Park, improvements are planned to improve links between Weston and the […]

Highway Ranger cleaner streets pilot launches in West Sussex

West Sussex County Council has launched a new Highway Ranger pilot to take action in local communities for cleaner and better-maintained streets.   The new countywide programme will tackle the everyday issues that can make an area look untidy, helping to keep local streets looking cleaner, safer and more welcoming. Cllr Erika Woodhurst-Trueman, Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport, said: “We are listening […]

Could psychology solve transport problems that engineering can’t? Rory Sutherland asks the provocative questions on Highways Voices

As Highways Voices continues its summer series of archive editions, this week’s podcast revisits one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking presentations ever delivered at the JCT Traffic Signals Symposium. Advertising executive, behavioural scientist and author Rory Sutherland challenges transport professionals to stop thinking purely like engineers and economists and instead consider how psychology shapes […]