Streets for People: More roads set to be transformed in Nottingham
Nottingham City Council will soon embark on the fourth year of its popular Streets for People programme of neighbourhood improvements. The project, which targets changes which make a real difference across the city, including fixing and resurfacing roads, footpaths, bins, improving traffic and safety issues, providing benches and improvements for trees, has been running since […]
National Highways lauds M25 J10 improvements
National Highways has delivered a set of improvements to the M25 and A3 as part of a flagship project to reduce congestion, improve safety, and boost economic growth. Engineers have widened the roundabout at Junction 10 in Surrey to increase capacity for traffic coming onto and off the M25 and introduced a fourth lane on […]
Bedford helping drivers go greener and cleaner with new EV charging points
New charging points are to be installed across Bedford Borough to help drivers make the switch to cleaner Electric Vehicles (EV). Bedford Borough Council has teamed up with EV charging provider Connected Kerb to install new points in areas without off-street parking, starting with an initial installation of 260 sockets across Bedford, Kempston and many other […]
Erewash Council launches M1 J25a economic feasibility study
Plans to improve congestion issues off the M1 in Nottinghamshire, including a potential new junction in a bid to alleviate delays, are to be assessed by Erewash Borough Council. At a meeting last week cross-party approval saw both the Labour administration and Conservative opposition support plans aimed at improving congestion through Sandiacre, Stanton by Dale […]
Menai Suspension Bridge closed due to overweight vehicle
A vehicle that crossed the Menai Suspension Bridge yesterday reportedly weighed double the allowed limit. The bridge had to close for several hours as a result. Traffic Wales has since said that the vehicle weighed about 15 tonnes, with the maximum allowed being 7.5 tonnes, says the North Wales Chronicle. Traffic Wales added that the driver had […]
AiRAP accreditation enables The Floow to support safer road programmes
Telematics and insurance technology solutions provider The Floow has been awarded global AiRAP accreditation, enabling the company to supply aggregated traffic and behavioural data in more than 140 countries. The milestone is a direct result of The Floow’s participation in Horizon Europe, the world’s largest research and innovation funding programme, which has helped the company […]
New data shows over 350,000 drivers caught running red lights since 2023
More than 350,000 red-light offences were recorded across Britain between 2023 and 2025, equivalent to one offence every four-and-a-half minutes, new data from online used car retailer Cinch has suggested. The company’s Freedom of Information data shows that 351,244 offences for failing to comply with a red traffic light were recorded by 26 police forces […]
Hampshire’s £15 million road improvement programme gets under way
More miles of Hampshire’s roads will be strengthened and repaired this summer, following a £15 million investment in highway maintenance by the County Council. The funding will be used for planned maintenance and reactive repairs during the summer period to address the significant deterioration over the winter as a result of the adverse weather the […]
Ministers told that TfL must take ‘full control’ of robotaxis
Ministers must hand over full control of driverless taxi trials to Transport for London (TfL), a senior London Assembly Member has said. Last year the Department for Transport (DfT) said it would fast-track the testing of “small scale ‘taxi and bus-like’ services without a safety driver” in 2026 before a wider potential rollout in 2027. […]
Safer roads and faster loads: MP joins with Logistics UK to call for dualling of A75
John Cooper, MP for Dumfries and Galloway has joined forces with Logistics UK to call for the A75 in southwest Scotland to become a dual carriageway to improve connectivity between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, drive regional economic growth and improve road safety, says Motor Transport. The call was made at a meeting held to discuss […]