Restricted turns, off-highway active travel lanes and average speed cameras in Leeds road scheme
The second phase of Leeds’ A6120 Outer Ring Road improvement scheme has been approved after positive response to a public consultation. The overall completion of both phases of the Connecting West Leeds corridor improvement project is scheduled for winter 2024. £20m of the work is funded by the Government’s Levelling Up Fund with the remaining […]
Boardman looks to make active travel “easy, every-day choice”
National Active Travel Commissioner Chris Boardman MBE has attended a meeting at Downing Street as part of the Government’s National Physical Activity Taskforce to help get millions more people involved in sport and physical activity by 2030. Speaking at the meeting, Mr Boardman said: “We are all convinced by the case for health. A healthy […]
PTV offers authorities assistance with free Public Transport Playbook
Transport modelling and software company PTV is offering transport planners and consultants free support through a new publication called the Public Transport Playbook. The company talked to public transport experts around the globe to get the full picture and says “they voluntarily shared their knowledge with us”. The company has summarised the output and its […]
Fife Council spends £3.5m on extra road maintenance
Fife Council is investing an additional £3.5 million to help fix the county’s roads, saying it is making good progress in tackling a backlog of repairs. The additional money will be used to help deal with a backlog of repairs that built up through last winter. Fife’s entire road network was inspected and more than […]
£80 million funding to improve and protect bus services
The Roads Minister has announced a further £80 million to support buses into 2025, with the aim of delivering lower fares, improved reliability and better bus services. Richard Holden has confirmed allocations for 64 local authorities across England from the £80 million investment in the Bus Service Improvement Plan+ (BSIP+) for 2024-25. Local authorities can […]
Early work to begin on A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements
Early preparation work is set to begin next week on National Highways’ A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements, designed to improve journeys between Milton Keynes, Bedford, St Neots, and Cambridge. To facilitate early construction activities, overnight closures during the week are scheduled on the A421 between between the Black Cat roundabout and Renhold junction […]
Mobility Campers pledge to “make a difference”
The 6th annual volunteer-run Mobility Camp “unconference” has taken place, with nearly a hundred people coming together to discuss, debate and tackle the subject of ‘Changing the Narrative in transport’. The attendees, from backgrounds including transport planners, councillors, modellers, engineers, technologists and students came together for the event at the IET in Birmingham, which saw only […]
More than 200 people dealt with as result of clampdown on dangerous drivers
More than 200 people have either been arrested or given a ticket as part of a week of action to clamp down on dangerous drivers in Lancashire. The county’s police force says the week of surge activity was all about its most vulnerable road users – namely children, the elderly, pedestrians, mobility device users, horse-riders, […]
Campaigners worry for Scottish road safety as police patrol numbers drop
Campaigners in Scotland are expressing fears over the impact of cuts to road traffic officer numbers in the country over the last decade. Figures obtained by BBC Scotland News reveal there were 548 officers in June – 14% less than in March 2014. The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) and road safety charity Brake told […]
Nissan-backed research project to bring autonomous mobility to UK residential and rural roads
The UK’s newest autonomous driving research project backed by Nissan and funded by the UK Government is underway. With the aim of enhancing the UK’s autonomous drive capability and technically supporting the supply chain’s readiness for mass adoption, the project called evolvAD will put Connected and Autonomous Vehicles through their paces on a variety of […]