Youngsters in Leeds to champion active travel in local schools
Leeds school pupils get on the right track as they put forward their ideas for tackling some key transport challenges. Leeds City Council and active travel endorsing organisation Modeshift invited pupils from four secondary schools to a Dragons’ Den-style ‘pitch’ event today. The Brownlee Centre hosted secondary school pupils from Temple Moor High School, Boston […]
24 tonnes of litter collected across the South West in the last year
More than 24 tonnes of rubbish were collected from motorways and A-roads in the South West over the past 12 months. Since April 2023, a total of 6,000 bags of litter and rubbish were collected over as well as large items such as bed mattresses, electric cables and carpets along the busy routes between Gloucestershire […]
Roads’ investment brings steady improvement in Argyll and Bute
Argyll and Bute Council has allocated £8 million pounds to this year’s roads’ reconstruction programme, taking investment over the past 10 years to more than £80 million. Using this investment to focus on stopping deterioration, and where possible improve road condition, has been a successful approach, according to an independent evaluation of Argyll and Bute […]
Greener electric buses will soon be on roads in North Somerset thanks to £15M investment
New electric buses will be on North Somerset roads from early next year, after North Somerset Council successfully bid for £15million of new funding for greener buses across the region. North Somerset Council is receiving £12.8million from First Bus, to be invested into the Weston-super-Mare First Bus depot and services. In addition, the Council is […]
New multi-million pound cycling route in Edinburgh city centre officially open
Celebrations got underway this week to mark the completion of the City Centre West to East Link (CCWEL) in Edinburgh, a £23 million project set to transform walking, wheeling and cycling across the city centre. On Wednesday 20th March, members of the local community and key delivery partners turned out in number to commemorate the close […]
New highway contract signed in North Somerset
A new £3.5m annual contract to maintain North Somerset’s roads has been signed. North Somerset Council and Mendip based John Wainwright & Company Ltd has signed a four-year contract for resurfacing and other infrastructure works. Tom Longland, Wainwright’s CEO said: “We’re proud to have secured the resurfacing contract. This is a significant moment in our […]
Re-flow Analysis: Spring Budget Industry Roundup
Jeremy Hunt released his spring budget two weeks ago to what was described as a collective national shrug. Now that a little time has passed, the newsworthiness of the big changes – abolishing non-dom status (to be replaced by something “fairer”) and cuts to national insurance – have lost their places in the country’s consciousness […]
First live trials for Centre of Excellence for Decarbonising Roads
A Department for Transport UK-wide funded programme has reached a key milestone with the first live trials taking place in North Lanarkshire and the West Midlands. ADEPT Live Labs 2: Decarbonising Local Roads in the UK is a three-year, UK-wide £30 million programme, funded by the Department for Transport that aims to decarbonise the local […]
Knowsley Council’s cabinet approves two-year highways maintenance and improvement programme
Knowsley Council’s Cabinet has approved a two-year programme of works and maintenance to deliver improvements to the borough’s highway network for both 2024/25 and 2025/26. Last year, Knowsley Council approved plans to enter into a Grant Funding Agreement with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to secure total funding of £29.19 million over five years. More […]
National Highways is trialling tech-based approaches in its efforts to cut down on litter on its roads
To coincide with this year’s Great British Spring Clean, the company has announced two new innovative litter trials to help reduce the amount of litter on the network: ‘geofencing’ laybys and solar-powered compactor bins. National Highways has trialled messaging to reduce motorway littering using ‘geofencing’ to send messages to drivers entering laybys where littering is […]
