Staffordshire highways chief sets out plans to tackle network disruption
Peter Mason, Staffordshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Strategic Highways, has set out his plans to tackle disruption caused by roadworks in the county in an open letter to residents, detailing how he aims to change the way works are programmed in, to minimise disruption. For the next three months, the county council will refrain […]
Norfolk roadwork delays caused by ‘failure to collect signs’
Newly published figures have revealed the hotspots where roadworks overran the longest – with the worst hold-ups caused by a simple failure to collect signs. Roadworks being carried out by utilities companies overran by a whopping 1,317 days in 2024, causing the equivalent of more than three-and-a-half years of disruption, says the Diss Mercury. Anglian […]
UK drivers likely to shut off ‘intrusive’ EU-mandated features
Drivers are likely to shut off EU-mandated safety features in new cars because they are too distracting, according to new research. Half of in-car driver monitoring systems are so intrusive that they are likely to be turned off, thus defeating the point of having them, What Car? magazine suggested. Mandated by EU laws, such systems are supposed to prevent […]
DfT advertises Chief Scientific Adviser vacancy
Applications for the role of Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Transport are now open. The Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) is a senior and influential leader at the heart of the Department for Transport (DfT), responsible for ensuring that science, engineering, technology, and innovation are embedded in the department’s policies, operations, and strategic direction. […]
Scottish Government provides £40 million boost for zero emission buses
The Scottish Government has announced a further investment of up to £40 million through the second Scottish Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund (ScotZEB2). It is estimated that this investment could bring as many as 300 zero-emission buses to Scotland’s bus operators. This latest investment builds on the success of the ScotZEB scheme to date, which has already […]
Motorists over 70 facing stricter vision laws
Drivers aged 70 and over could be banned from the roads if they fail compulsory eye tests under a radical shake-up of driving laws in England and Wales. Plans also include reducing the drink-driving limit in both countries to be in line with Scotland’s laws, and introducing penalty points for passengers not wearing a seatbelt, […]
Automated AI driving functions from Bosch and Cariad to be integrated into VW Group’s new sofrware architecture
Bosch and Cariad have announced that they are intensifying their cooperation within the Automated Driving Alliance: the partners are developing their software stack for Level 2 and 3 assisted and automated driving by making full use of artificial intelligence. Bosch and Cariad are expanding their existing approaches to include state-of-the-art AI methods. This should lead […]
Council fury as Government revokes A1 dualling consent
The long-saga of the A1 dualling project has taken another twist as the Government is moving to officially revoke the approval that would have allowed for the dualling of a stretch of the road in Northumberland. Labour announced last October that it was scrapping a long-planned upgrade to the busy route having deemed it “unfunded […]
60,000 speeding convictions could be overturned if driver wins TfL case
A senior TfL manager has claimed that there is no need to tell motorists whenever speed limits are temporarily lowered. Gerard O’Toole, the authority’s network regulation manager, told a court that he believed details of “emergency” cuts to speed limits did not have to be made available to the public – even though such orders […]
Cambridgeshire: Overrunning roadworks lead to £500,000 in fines
Companies in Cambridgeshire have been fined almost £500,000 for overrunning or non-compliant roadworks, which caused delays and inconvenience to motorists, a council said. Cambridgeshire County Council said during the past year it had processed more than 32,000 street and roadwork permits, regulating when and how works could take place, says the BBC. It said that […]