Plans for transport hub in Barry have been given the go ahead
The Vale of Glamorgan Council has approved plans for a transport interchange at Barry Docks train station. The interchange, which will be located at the ground floor level of the council’s car park area to the east of the Grade II-listed Dock Offices, will include bus stands, taxi stands, a public drop off area, cycle parking […]
Cheshire East Council submits its bids to Levelling Up Fund
Cheshire East Council is the latest council to submit three bids to round two of the government’s Levelling Up Fund. The Levelling Up Fund is designed to invest in infrastructure that improves everyday life across the UK and, in March, Government launched the second round of bidding. Cheshire East Council submitted three bids – two relating to […]
Buckinghamshire Council announces new partner to continue programme of highways improvements
Buckinghamshire Council has announced that Balfour Beatty Living Places has been awarded the future Term Maintenance Contract to look after the county’s highway network. Balfour Beatty Living Places will take on the multi-million-pound contract on 1 April 2023 when the council’s current agreement with Ringway Jacobs, working under the Transport for Buckinghamshire umbrella, comes to […]
Driving down carbon emissions on Devon’s highways
Devon County Council has reaffirmed its commitment to driving down carbon emissions in its highways delivery. Its ambition is to be carbon neutral by 2030 is ahead of schedule, as we announce our next phase in cutting carbon from Devon’s roads maintenance. Phase one, announced last year, saw it become one of the first councils […]
National Highways on track with reducing emissions, says new report
The last year has seen National Highways’ significantly reduce emissions across its business and operations. Achievements recorded in the last year include ensuring that 100% of its own energy is sourced from renewable energy, converting 38% of its vehicle fleet to greener plug-in hybrid cars and using lower-carbon LED bulbs to light more than 16% […]
Bracknell Forest Council moves to lower temperature asphalt
As part of its climate change action plan, Bracknell Forest Council is seeking to reduce its carbon emissions associated with highway maintenance work. Consequently, the council, working in partnership with their term contractor, Ringway, have identified an opportunity to reduce the carbon footprint of its road resurfacing works in the borough. To do this, they […]
Council commits to £5m highway resurfacing programme despite increase in costs
The Cabinet of Bridgend County Borough Council has confirmed that resurfacing works for the local highways network will continue as planned despite recent inflationary increases in material, labour and machinery costs. The commitment follows concerns raised by one of the council’s contractors, Centre Great Ltd, over a number of recent cost increases triggered by national […]
Shropshire Council makes bid for Levelling Up Fund round 2 money
Shropshire Council has this week applied for money to take forward four projects totalling £104 million as part of the Government’s Levelling Up Fund (LUF) round 2. The four projects in Craven Arms, Oswestry and Shrewsbury, as well as a cross-county transport bid, will now all be considered for a slice of the £4.8bn fund. For all four […]
DfT announces funding allocations for City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements
The Department for Transport has detailed how £5.7bn of government funding will be divided up between seven city regions to be spent on a total of 394 sustainable transport schemes, The City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS) was announced in the autumn Budget last year. It is delivered through multi-year consolidated transport settlements agreed for […]
Expansion of ULEZ will help improve air quality in Westminster
Cllr Paul Dimoldenberg, Cabinet Member for City Management and Air Quality at Westminster City Council has written to Transport for London (TfL) in support of its proposed expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), which if approved will stretch across all of Greater London. Cllr Dimoldenberg has also expressed his support of the […]