Parking changes and safer roads discussed at Brighton & Hove Council committee meeting
Road safety and the future of parking in Brighton & Hove were the main themes from a busy Transport and Sustainability committee meeting this week. Councillors spent more than three hours discussing several reports presented to them, voting to approve measures to improve the safety, implement the first elements of a wider parking review and […]
Queen Victoria Road improvements to get under way in Newcastle
Work to construct a new cycle track, safer crossing points and signalised junctions on a busy city centre road are due to get under way. Newcastle City Council will be carrying out the works on Queen Victoria Road and Claremont Road as part of a £2.95m investment, which includes £1.3m from the government’s Active Travel […]
Highway resurfacing wraps up for another year as Bath and North East Somerset council completes annual programme
More than 15km of highway has been resurfaced across Bath and North East Somerset this year as the council completes its resurfacing programme. Alongside the delivery of the resurfacing and patching programme in 2023, the council’s Highways team also repaired 6,838 potholes – averaging 20 repairs a day. The council completed its annual resurfacing […]
Balfour Beatty Living Places wins £330m highways extension in Lincolnshire
Balfour Beatty Living Places has doubled the length of its highways maintenance deal with Lincolnshire County Council. The agreement means the UK’s biggest contractor by turnover will look after roads in the area until 2032. Balfour was awarded a £217m deal back in 2019, which began in April 2020 for an initial period of six years, […]
Essex’s Sustainable Transport Team recognised at national awards
A new, door-to-door digital, journey-planning tool has won first place at a national awards ceremony. The “All Roads Lead from Home” project has been developed by our Sustainable Transport Team in collaboration with You. Smart. Thing. It bridges the gap for residents of ten housing developments with a postcode that isn’t yet recognised on standard mapping tools. […]
Traffic Group Signals’ Top 5 Takeaways from ARTSM’s Guidance on the Use of Portable Traffic Signals
In October, ARSTM published ‘Guidance for the use of Portable Traffic Signals’, a long overdue revision to current industry standards on delivering traffic signalling for temporary works. TGS has made a wide range of contributions during the consultation period, many of these based on experiences deploying the Metro and Evo1 products. Here we share our […]
TfL launches further two new Superloop routes as new data shows huge success of initial ones
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and Transport for London (TfL) are launching two brand new express bus services in outer London as latest ridership figures show demand on all Superloop routes has increased above the network average level, according to new data. The SL10 route between Harrow and North Finchley is now in operation, […]
Upgrade to coastal cycle route gets underway in South Tyneside
Work is underway to improve walking and cycling routes along the South Tyneside coast. The £2million scheme will see the existing footpath along the Coast Road (A183) widened to at least four metres to accommodate two lanes – one for pedestrians and one for cyclists. The project is being delivered in three phases, starting with […]
Haringey Council wins prestigious active travel award
A trailblazing project aimed at encouraging children to walk, cycle and take public transport to and from school in Haringey has scooped a prestigious national award. At the 2023 Modeshift National Sustainable Travel Awards, the council beat off stiff competition to be named winners of the Educational Engagement Project of the Year. The award recognised […]
All systems go for £360 million investment planned for improvements and major projects on Lincolnshire’s highways
It is ‘all systems go’ when it comes to major highways improvements around Lincolnshire, according to executive member for highways, Cllr Richard Davies. In addition to all of the standard maintenance and repairs that Lincolnshire County Council carry out each year, a total of £360 million over the next five years on brand-new infrastructure and […]
