Warwickshire’s County Council’s highways team gets set for winter
Warwickshire County Council’s highways team is ready for winter weather, according to the council. At the end of each winter, the County’s gritting teams – which treat Warwickshire’s most used roads and the main routes into villages – start to prepare for the following winter. Preparation includes: reviewing performance data and learning from it, buying […]
Scottish Transport Awards success for Glasgow active travel projects
Glasgow Council has been recognised by the Scottish Transport Awards 2022 – with two of its sustainable transport projects scooping prestigious accolades at last night’s award ceremony. The first vital link of the £8m Connecting Woodside active travel project jointly won the Excellence in Walking, Public Realm & Cycling award, alongside delivery partner Cyclehoop Ltd for the council’s innovative secure […]
Bedford Borough Schools go gold for sustainable transport
Bedford Borough now has five schools that have reached Gold accreditation for their efforts to encourage and promote sustainable travel Castle Newnham School (South Site), St James’ CofE VA Primary School, Westfield Primary School and Goldington Green Academy have all joined Shortstown Primary School as Gold standard schools. The accreditation comes from Modeshift STARS, the […]
School children across Medway encouraged to take part in walking challenge
Primary and secondary schools across Medway are encouraged to sign up for Walk to School Month in October. Medway Council are supporting the international campaign, in partnership with the KM Charity Team, to reduce the number of cars on Medway’s roads and to encourage residents to make more active journeys to and from school. There […]
Extensive consultation to be launched on proposals to transform how people travel around Greater Cambridge
Residents will soon be invited to share their views on transformational proposals to significantly improve how people travel around Greater Cambridge every day. The Greater Cambridge Partnership will launch an extensive public consultation this autumn on ambitious plans to create a step change in public transport – with one of the largest ever investments in […]
DfT publishes final statistics on road collisions and casualties for Great Britain in 2021
In 2021 there were an estimated 1,558 reported road deaths, a decrease of 11% from pre-pandemic levels (2019). This is according to the Department for Transport’s (DfT) final statistics on road collisions ad casualties for Great Britain in 2021. Overall, casualties have broadly followed trends in traffic in recent years, according to the statistics. These […]
Lancashire’s highways team praised for low carbon commitment
Lancashire County Council has been recognised nationally for its commitment to sustainable working practices and carbon reduction in maintaining the county’s highways. The council was awarded the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) prestigious Climate Action Award in recognition of their Highways Decarbonisation Strategy. The mission statement for the project is to achieve ‘Sustainability […]
Protected cycle lanes must be urgent government priority, says active travel charity
The UK’s largest walking and cycling charity has called on local authorities and central government to guarantee protected cycle lanes on main road routes to schools. Sustrans has said that doing this would help embed new active travel habits of people across the UK forced to change the way they travel during the cost of […]
Active travel and public realm improvements delivered in North Glasgow
A City Deal project led by the council that is helping to transform an area of North Glasgow into a vibrant neighbourhood by improving its connectivity with the city centre and adjacent communities has recently delivered public realm improvements and enhanced active travel routes. An upgraded pedestrian route linking the city centre with Speirs Wharf and […]
New Roads Research Alliance launched by National Highways and the highways supply chain
National Highways and 20 companies from its supply chain have launched a research alliance which will help shape the development of innovation in the highways industry over the next five years. A new research alliance has been launched to lead a £14.5 million programme which will help shape the development of innovation in the highways […]