Lincolnshire: Allow more time to travel during A180 repairs
Motorists in North and North East Lincolnshire are advised to allow more time for their journeys as repairs are being carried out on the A180 westbound from 28 May. Essential maintenance work is taking place between Stallingborough, at the A180’s junction with the A1173, and junction 5 of the M180 (Barnetby). To enable this work […]
Multi-million-pound M3 junction 9 scheme approved
The Secretary of State for Transport has approved plans that will transform journeys around junction 9 of the M3. A £200 million scheme to create free-flowing links between the M3 and the A34 will improve connections between the south coast, the Midlands and London, reduce congestion, improve safety and introduce new networks for active travel, […]
Greater Cambridge Partnership welcomes new partners for self-driving bus project
Two new partners have come onboard Greater Cambridge Partnership’s (GCP) self-driving vehicle project, Connector. The Connector project is a pilot scheme to bring autonomous buses to Cambridge, utilising state of the art technology to give people more options about how they travel to work, get to appointments or see friends. Following changes to the project, Alexander Dennis Ltd, […]
ARTSM Central System Interface replacement proposal revealed
ARTSM, the Association of Road Traffic Safety & Management have revealed details of a proposal for the replacement of the UK’s Urban Traffic Management Central System Interface. “UTMC has served the Traffic Industry well for some years. However, it became clear pre-Covid, that the UTMC systems interfaces were insufficiently robust to cater for the needs […]
WorldDAB Automotive 2024: Driving broadcast digital radio
WorldDAB Automotive 2024 – the essential event bringing together the broadcast and automotive sectors – has unveiled its first group of expert keynote speakers. The conference takes place in Prague and online on 13 June. It offers a unique opportunity for industry professionals to gain valuable insights into the latest developments in DAB+ broadcast digital […]
London: China’s BYD poised to supply electric double decker buses
Rapidly expanding Chinese automaker BYD is close to a deal that would see it supply all-electric double decker buses in London. Transport giant Go-Ahead Group is set to award the Shenzhen-based firm a contract to build more than 100 of the vehicles at around £400,000 each and £100,000 cheaper than its UK competitors, sources told the Sunday […]
Monmouthshire: Four options to clear A40 rockfall debris
Delays to clear the rockfall on the A40 which caused a closure of the road in February are still in the planning stages. Meanwhile traders and motorists in Monmouth still suffer with traffic gridlock, made worse by collisions such as the one last Friday, May 10 when a two-car crash saw both carriageways closed to […]
Glasgow’s traffic signals hit by ‘power spike’
Road-users in Glasgow have been warned to take care after a fault knocked out traffic lights in many areas. Glasgow City Council said that a “power spike” in the early hours of Sunday morning had affected sets of lights “across the city”, posing a danger at junctions and on the roads. Around 70 sets of traffic […]
EU “eyes car chips as next battleground with China”
Europe is widening its focus from high-tech to low-tech microchips as it fears a fresh challenge from Chinese subsidized firms to supply the electric vehicle boom. The European Commission will start to question microchip suppliers and customers about legacy chips and whether there is a dependency on China supplies, it told POLITICO in a statement, with […]
“Cultural vandalism”: Local outrage after historic Tadcaster bridge buried
Pressure is mounting to reverse the 2018 burial of a North Yorkshire Victorian railway bridge built by the first pupil of Robert Stephenson. About 150 objections to a retrospective planning application for the £133,000 of works National Highways carried out at Rudgate Bridge, north-west of Tadcaster, have been lodged with the local authority in recent […]