Ten organisations call on government to consider road infrastructure and avoid congestion when building new homes
Ten organisations have written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick urging changes to the Government’s proposed planning reforms to avoid adding a tide of car traffic to already overcrowded roads and undermining the Government’s wider social, economic and environmental goals. This comed ahead of preparation for a Planning Bill to be announced in next week’s Queen’s Speech Organisations […]
Dynniq retains North East Traffic signals maintenance contracts
Traffic signal speacialist, Dynniq has announced the retention of two North East traffic signals maintenance contracts with the contracts covering four local authority areas. This success builds on Dynniq’s rapid response to all four authorities requiring urgent maintenance assistance in early 2020. Dynniq mobilised the contracts in a matter of days to ensure all the […]
Chichester District Council launches draft revised Air Quality Action Plan
Chichester District Council has launched its draft and revised Air Quality Action Plan, which will now go to public consultation. The plan – which is the council’s third since 2008 – gives details of the four Air Quality Management Areas in the district and ways in which the council plans to tackle the issue. The previous […]
Some major road and railway projects may be scrapped as travel patterns change as a result of the pandemic, BBC research says
Plans for major road and railway projects are being reviewed because of changes in travel patterns as a result of the Covid pandemic, according to new BBC research. The BBC said it has learnt that civil servants are studying transport expansion plans to see which ones are still viable. This is alongside its own reseatch […]
September start date for A590 Cross-a-Moor roundabout project
Highways England’s construction of a new roundabout along the A590 at Cross-a-Moor south of Ulverston in Cumbria will start in September. The new roundabout will replace the existing staggered junction with Main Road running south off the A590 and Pennington Lane running north of it. Preparation work is scheduled to start in spring with the […]
Colas retains Investors in People Gold Status
Colas has announced that it has retained Investors In People Gold status, an award held for almost ten years. The company achieved the first accreditation from Investors In People in 2002, and were awarded Gold Status in 2012. This ongoing success puts Colas into the top 17% of organisations who have achieved the Investors In […]
Research by Cycling UK shows huge variation in active travel spend
Research by Cycling UK has shown that some councils in England are investing 170 times more per head on active travel than others. Its research has indicated that there is a huge variation in active travel spending by local authorities across the country – from £34 a year per head of population to just 20 […]
Working with local communities is the best way to encourage active travel, says MPs
Instead of wholly rejecting the shift to active travel on the basis of poor administration in a handful of cases, we should champion schemes that have proven to work best and have the backing of local communities, two MPs have said. According to Selaine Saxby MP and Simon Fell MP, the local councillors we elect […]
ALKS will have ‘no obvious’ benefits to fleets on the road, says MD of software company
Government plans to make limited autonomous technology legal on UK roads later this year will have “no obvious benefits to fleets” but will create several potential pitfalls, according to Peter Golding, Managing Director of FleetCheck. The comments come after the Department of Transport announced last week that driverless vehicles with Automated Lane Keeping Systems (ALKS) […]
Meon and Amey collaborate to bring London Bus Museum street to life
Amey and Meon have joined forces to help improve the London Bus Museum’s indoor street. The museum approached Amey to see if they could volunteer their expertise with designing and creating a new street layout in the museum. As currently closed due to COVID-19 restrictions, the opportunity is being taken to refurbish photograph displays and […]