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 […]
Merry Christmas from Highways News
This is the last regular day of news on Highways News this year, as the industry winds down for Christmas. We usually find very little goes on in the week ahead of Christmas to justify our daily newsletter, but we will put any major stories onto our website and social media. So all that’s left […]
Authorities reminded “the clock is ticking” on DfT signals funding applications
The manager of the Transport Technology Forum is urging local authorities to make sure they get their applications for a share of £70 million of new money to make traffic signals more efficient, with the deadline to bid just one week away. As part of the Department for Transport’s Plan for Drivers, funding is available […]
Survey discovers what drivers think about the safety technology in their car
A new survey from the road charity Brake and AXA UK has been published exploring the attitudes of drivers to vehicle safety systems and highlights a lack of knowledge about the latest vehicle technology. Researchers sought to determine driver views on the technology in their car, with a focus on safety for drivers and their passengers, […]
TfL awards funding to 78 new community groups to try to unlock the barriers to walking and cycling
Transport for London and the London Marathon Foundation have awarded more than £575,000 of funding to 78 new projects and 69 continuing projects run by community groups, as part of the Walking and Cycling Grants London (WCGL) programme. It says each investment will make a real difference to communities across the capital, allowing organisations to […]
Cruise cuts a quarter of its workforce
Troubles continue for General Motors’ driverless subsidiary Cruise. The latest announcement is a cut of nearly a quarter of its workforce – around 900 people – after a crash involving a pedestrian in San Francisco. Since then it’s had its permit in California suspended, removed all its vehicles off American roads, seen its CEO and […]
Experts call for actions to speed up global decarbonisation of road transport
A variety of clean-tech solutions such as electric vehicles and renewable transportation fuels must be deployed to speed up transport decarbonisation globally, experts from the transport sector have said. A roundtable discussion, which took place on Transport Day at COP28 in the REA’s Renewable Energy Action Pavilion, saw the experts discuss how to deploy each […]
RoSPA warns UK road safety progress has come to a grinding halt
There’s a warning the United Kingdom is lagging behind other European countries when it comes to road safety progress in reducing the number of people killed on its roads. The accident prevention charity, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents says the latest Global Status Report on Road Safety should be a wakeup call […]
National Highways lifting roadworks for Christmas getaway
National Highways says it is working round the clock to give motorists an early Christmas present by removing more than a thousand miles of roadworks ahead of the getaway. This means more than 98% of motorways and major A-roads will be roadworks-free in time for those travelling to see loved ones or making other journeys for Christmas. It says to help […]