Twenty repair jobs completed on key road in Cheadle
Extensive road improvements have been completed in Cheadle, Staffordshire, with highways crews carrying out 20 repair jobs on the A522 Tean Road between the junction of Charles Street to the junction of Huntley Lane. The work, which started on Monday 4 November, included filling potholes, refreshing road markings, hedge cutting and fixing kerbs, ironwork, footways and signs. […]
Trump Presidency plans to ease driverless restrictions
It’s reported members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team have told advisers they plan to make a federal framework for fully self-driving vehicles one of the Transportation Department’s priorities, according to people familiar with the matter. Fortune reports current federal rules pose “significant roadblocks” for companies looking to deploy vehicles without steering wheels or foot […]
New connected car services launched
Swedish connected vehicle services company WirelessCar has announced that its full suite of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products is now available on AWS Marketplace. Automotive OEMs can now easily find and purchase WirelessCar’s products and Professional Services through AWS Marketplace, allowing for fast and secure development of connected vehicle services. WirelessCar’s SaaS products available in AWS Marketplace […]
First JCT Symposium sessions released online
A recordings of presentations from the first session of September’s JCT Traffic Signals Symposium have been uploaded to the event’s YouTube channel. Six of the seven sessions at the Symposium in Nottingham were filmed thanks to the support of video 4way Consulting, AGD Systems, PTV Group, SensysNetworks, smartmicro, Starling Technologies and TRL. The sessions will be released every Friday for the next […]
National Highways asked for LTC clarification regarding DCO
The Department for Transport’s Transport Infrastructure Planning Unit has written to National Highways asking for comments regarding three questions to do with the granting of the Development Consent Order for the Lower Thames Crossing. Last month it was announced a decision on whether to go ahead with building the Lower Thames Crossing east of the […]
Average speed cameras to be installed in Flintshire
Average speed cameras are being installed on the A548 between Llanerch-y-Mor and Mostyn in North Wales. The installation by enforcement and ANPR camera technology provider Jenoptik is part of a collaborative effort to improve road safety between Flintshire County Council and North Wales Police. Funded by Welsh Government, the project aims to tackle speeding and […]
Orkney surveys opinions on 20mph limits
Orkney Islands Council is asking residents for their thoughts on reducing 30mph speed limits inbuilt-up areas to 20mph. The Council has published an online survey and will also run a series of drop in events to gather people’s views. Feedback will be presented to Councillors who are keen to hear from the public their appetite […]
Dorset Police reinforces road safety message after driver blames speed on being low on fuel
Dorset Police have listed some of the reasons people have given for being caught speeding, including needing to get to a petrol station quickly because they were low of fuel, and worries over their KFC getting cold. Officers from the No Excuse Team are targeting motorists who may have committed one of the fatal five […]
Columnist slams expected legalisation of e-scooters
The newspaper columnist Peter Hitchens has repeated his opposition to e-scooters, describing the use of e-bikes and e-scooters as the biggest and most damaging transport revolution since Dr Richard Beeching destroyed the railways 60 years ago. Writing in the Mail on Sunday, Mr Hitchens argued “The liberation of unlicensed, unregistered, fast, heavy motor vehicles on […]
Kingston’s refurbished Cromwell Road bus station reopens
Transport for London has opened the redeveloped Cromwell Road bus station in the London Borough of Kingston. Working in partnership with the project contractor VolkerFitzpatrick and the Royal Borough of Kingston, this redevelopment is a first of its kind for the station since it opened in the 1990s. TfL says the build combines contemporary style […]