Cheshire East Council agrees its first environment strategy
Cheshire East Council has agreed its first ever environment strategy that will include measures to increase sustainable and active travel as well as focus on air quality improvements. At a council meeting last year, elected members noted the UK declaration of a climate emergency and unanimously approved a notice of motion that requested a Cheshire […]
Now is the time to enable active travel, not just encourage it
By: Adam Tranter, Bicycle Mayor for Coventry, co-host of Streets Ahead podcast and Chief Executive of Fusion Media….writing for cyclist.co.uk If you want to drive or need to take the train as lockdown restrictions lift, by my reckoning, you should do everything in your power to ensure that cycling and walking become primary methods of […]
Richard Hayes: Getting the highways sector back to business
By Richard Hayes, former Chief Executive and Past President of the IHE and consultant at Hayes ProTech Ltd A letter form Baroness Vere, the Roads Places and Buses Minister to all English local authorities at the end of April stressed the need to ‘continue with routine business’ in relation to their highway maintenance works included […]
A statement from JAG (UK) Chief Executive-Dave Capon
Dear Colleagues, These are strange and tough times testing the strength of us all. Family friends and work colleagues facing isolation and some uncertainty. However, our strength, resolve and collective will to move forward and make things better will see us through this, of that I have no doubt.JAG(UK) is working closely with all agencies […]
Kier wins one-year extension to Surrey CC highways contract
Kier Highways has been awarded an additional 12-month contract worth £40 million to continue to provide highway maintenance services to Surrey CC. As well as maintenance, the work includes the continuation of the S-Skills academy, launched in 2017. This is a 16-week programme operated in conjunction with Surrey CC and provides vulnerable young people and adults […]
Coventry City Council extends air quality consultation
Coventry City Council has extended its clean air consultation after residents and businesses have given their views on a range of schemes that would enable reductions in NO2 levels in the city without the need to introduce a Clean Air Zone (CAZ D). The council says that a CAZ D would have affected all vehicles […]
Zenzic to launch new CAV testbed video series
Zenzic, the organisation responsible for the promotion, development and acceleration of self-driving vehicles in the UK, has launched a series of videos in collaboration with all the main testbeds in the country. The video series will showcase the unique connectivity testing capabilities of CAM Testbed UK. It brings to life what is possible now and […]
COVID-19: a need for pop-up active travel facilities
ANALYSIS By Anusha Rajasooriya, TRL Some cities and municipalities have, or are in the process of, temporarily widening footways and bike lanes to cater for the increase in pedestrians and cyclists (while also observing a substantial reduction in motorised traffic) resulting from the imposed lockdowns to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. Cities such as Berlin […]
HE’s payments performance improves again
The strategic network will continue to operate as ‘close to business as usual’ with Highways England paying over 90% of its suppliers within five days in a bid to help support the supply chain during the C-19 pandemic. In his latest statement to the supply chain, Malcolm Dare, Executive Director for Commercial and Procurement at […]
New funding for vulnerable road users
The Road Safety Foundation has received funding from the Road Safety Trust to help local authorities understand the risks to vulnerable road users. It will also help councils to understand the benefits of introducing different traffic measures to their urban areas to improve the environment for these users. The project will work in partnership with […]