New funding agreement reached for TfL
An agreement has been reached with the Government today (1 June 2021), which extends its financial support to Transport for London (TfL) to 11 December 2021. London’s Transport Commissioner Andy Byford said: “The pandemic – during which our staff have worked so magnificently to keep London moving – has shown our financial model, with such […]
Birmingham launches CAZ
Birmingham City Council has launched its Clean Air Zone (CAZ) today (June 1), which requires drivers of older cars, vans and trucks to pay a daily fee to enter the city’s centre. Restrictions apply to all roads within Birmingham’s A4540 Middleway Ring Road, except the ring road itself. The CAZ is operational 24 hours a […]
Infrastructure-led recovery, but growing cost pressures, says latest CECA Workload Trends Survey
Civil engineering contractors today reported that the infrastructure-driven economic recovery in Britain continues but that growing demand is driving costs up. Results from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA)’s Workload Trends Survey for the first quarter of 2021 showed that contractors’ workloads rose in annual terms in Q1, according to 29% of British companies, […]
Cheshire West and Chester Council is on a mission to clean 86,650 gullies before next spring
Cheshire West and Chester Council’s Highways Service has started its gully (grid) cleansing programme and plans to clean a total of 86,650 grids across the borough at least once before March 2022. The Council’s Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Environment, Highways and Strategic Transport, Councillor Karen Shore said: “Gully, or grid, maintenance is an […]
Greater Manchester to create 50 School Streets
Greater Manchester (GM) has secured £500,000 to deliver 50 School Streets to help transform the school run, enable healthier lifestyles and tackle air pollution, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has announced. The city region-wide initiative will enable tens of thousands of Greater Manchester children to breathe cleaner air on the school run – with at […]
Tarmac opens dedicated occupational health and wellbeing facility at National Skills and Safety Park
Tarmac has opened a new occupational health and wellbeing facility at its industry-leading National Skills and Safety Park training facility in Nottinghamshire. Tarmac’s senior vice president Peter Buckley joined colleagues and a group of Tarmac’s Future Leaders to officially open the occupational health facility on Wednesday, 26 May. Created to support Tarmac’s commitment to investing […]
Carnell appoint new Managing Director
Andrew Sharp has been appointed Managing Director of Carnell. The company said he will work in a Deputy Managing Director role with current incumbent, Aidan Clarke until September. After over 25 years in charge, Aidan Clarke has decided it’s time to move on and take on other challenges and opportunities. He said “I am proud of […]
Galliford Try on the search for earthworks companies for A47 upgrade project
Contractor Galliford Try has started the search for specialist earthworks companies as it makes progress with its contract to upgrade the A47. Through a public tender, it is looking for the companies for two dualling schemes. As Highways England’s East Region Delivery Partner, the firm is seeking to get earthwork specialists on board for early […]
Coventry University joins forces with Motability to drive forward accessible transport research
Coventry University has collaborated with national disability charity Motability to recruit and sponsor a number of doctoral candidates to undertake research into accessible transport at the university’s National Transport Design Centre (NTDC). The collaboration combines Coventry University’s strong tradition of design transport teaching and Motability’s objective to support and develop innovative solutions to meet the evolving transportation needs of […]
Rural areas could be forgotten on the path to net-zero transition, says new report
Rural areas are less able to reduce their carbon emissions due to a lack of funding and poor transport links, according to a new report published by UK100. It said that people living in rural and sparsely populated regions are more likely to have to travel for work and are more inclined to use their […]