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 […]
Majority of Londoners support expansion of ULEZ in the city, according to new survey
Most Londoners support the expansion of London’s Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), according to a survey commissioned by environmental law charity ClientEarth with 68% saying they are worried about children breathing in pollution. The survey shows that 68% of those questioned think higher-polluting vehicles should pay more than other vehicles for travelling through the capital, with […]
Over half a million ultra low emission vehicles are now on Britain’s roads
Over half a million ultra low emission vehicles are now being driven on UK roads, according to the Department for Transport and Office for Low Emission Vehicles. This comes as statistics from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show that 13.6% of new cars sold in the past four months had a plug, […]
Argo AI develops more advanced lidar sensing technology
Argo AI, the self-driving startup backed by Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen Group, has developed a sensor it believes will be key to commercialising autonomous transportation. The compamy has launched a lidar sensor Tuesday capable of ‘seeing’400 metersdown the road with almost photographic detail. Lidar bounces light off objects to create an image of the […]