New signals identification number named after industry legend
A new national numbering scheme for traffic signal controllers will be called the “Simmonite Number”, in honour of one of the pioneers of traffic signal control in the UK, Brian Simmonite. The new numbering system is part of the Digital Controller Interface Specification (DCIS) and will be named in honour of founder of signals consultancy […]
Safer roads workers jailed for collective sentence of more than five years
Two staff working on Staffordshire’s safer roads partnership have been jailed for deleting records of speeding offences A man and woman have been jailed after admitting to conspiring to dispose of speeding offences in Staffordshire. They were involved in failing to process penalties, or deleting records so drivers would avoid penalties. Samantha Halden-Evans, 36, from […]
Hertfordshire offering 21 year highways contract
Hertfordshire County Council is tendering for a Highways Services Term Maintenance Contract to run until September 2046. The contract would start on 1 October next year, and will involve a single supplier. Would-be tenderers must complete and submit a Supplier Questionnaire by the deadline of 12 noon on the 26th February 2024. Details are here. […]
A9 dualling delayed by ten years as new plans revealed
Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero and Just Transition, Mairi McAllan, has announced that dualling works for the remaining single carriageway sections of the A9 between Perth and Inverness should be completed by the end of 2035. The road was meant to be completed by 2025, but that was deemed “unachievable” last February. The […]
RingGo owner hit by data hack
The owner of the parking app RingGo, Easypark, has announced it has been the victim of a data breach, but that non-sensitive customer data was affected. It says it discovered the hack on 10 December and took “swift measures” to stop the attack, made sure operations continued as usual, notified the authorities and involved external […]
RAC declares last year as the “year of the rat”
New data from the RAC is suggesting that it’s not always a head gasket or a catastrophic engine failure that can cost hundreds of pounds in repairs, it can sometimes be small creatures. The breakdown organisation has revealed it’s seen record numbers of mice, rats and foxes ‘surprising’ customers in 2023 and causing serious damage […]
Lancashire getting an extra £3.6m highways cash
An additional £3.66m has been committed to this year’s highways budget in Lancashire so that the County Council’s highways team can carry out work in a number of critical areas. An ‘urgent decision’ was made by the council’s leader and cabinet member for highways and transport to add the new funding to the highways capital […]
A9 dualling consultation costs double what has been spent on construction
It’s been revealed that design consultants have been paid almost twice as much as has been spent on the actual construction so far of stretches of dual carriageway on the A9 in Scotland. The Press and Journal Newspaper reports £246.7 million – more than half of the total money spent on the project so far […]
Ministers and TfL agree £250m extra funding to upgrade London’s transport system
Ministers and TfL have today agreed a new £250m funding injection for 2024 to improve London’s transport system. The Government has been clear that this investment is for Transport for London (TfL) to continue delivering its investment programme, including new trains for the Piccadilly line, a scheme which will support an estimated 700 skilled rail […]
Motorway emergency phones failed on Christmas Day
National Highways has admitted motorway phones were out of action on stretches of motorway across England on Christmas Day. It says it fixed the matter within hours, but that phones in the north east, north west, East Midlands and parts of the east of England were affected in the early hours. Jon Allen, the national […]