Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Road Improvement scheme approved
National Highways’ plans to improve the A428 between the Black Cat Roundabout and Caxton Gibbet Road in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Transport. The application involves the dualling of the A428 between A1/A421 Black Cat Junction and A428/A1198 Caxton Gibbet Junction to high quality dual carriageway. […]
New ‘Best of Britain’ award launched at Strictly Highways
A new ‘Best of Britain’ award has been introduced as a category in this year’s DfT Special Recognition awards which form part of Strictly Highways 2022. This new award, which honours the contribution made by Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) founder Will Britain (pictured), will celebrate a team, individual or trainee in the public […]
£15 million Traffic Signals Challenge Funding already improving journeys
Travellers across England are enjoying more efficient and greener journeys thanks to a range of improvements to traffic signals funded by a grant from the Department for Transport. 39 authorities have received either £250,000 or £500,000 in extra maintenance allocation, improving traffic signals to tackle road user safety, air pollution and congestion. For example, in […]
TfL funding still in doubt
Transport for London says it remains in active discussion with the Government to ensure that the draft funding proposal that they have made is fair and deliverable and can prevent the “managed decline” of the capital’s transport network. The transport body was told to respond to a £3.6 billion Government offer of funding this week, […]
Nearly a quarter of vehicle fatalities were not wearing a seatbelt
New figures from the Department for Transport confirms that people who do not wear seatbelts are disproportionately more likely to die in road crashes. It says that, while seatbelt wearing rates remain high overall, the latest road casualty statistics for 2020 show that 23% of car occupant fatalities in reported road collisions were not wearing […]
World-first platooning trial finds technology is safe
A multi-year trial to ascertain the effectiveness of platooning technology on the UK road network has drawn its conclusions, and found that the technology could be safely used. The HelmUK trial of platooning across the strategic road network – the first realistic platooning trial to have taken place on a live road network globally– saw […]
New THINK! campaign launched to improve road safety for those most at risk
People driving, walking and cycling are being encouraged to give space and be considerate to other road users in the Government’s latest THINK! road safety campaign. The ‘Travel Like You Know Them’ campaign will promote the recent changes to the Highway Code, aimed at improving road safety for people walking, cycling and horse riding. The […]
Technology at the heart of transport – Sarah Sharples on this week’s Highways Voices
“I think when it was first brought in as a role to government departments, the Chief Scientific Adviser was expected to be the wise expert who knew everything about science,” says the Department for Transport’s Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Sarah Sharples on this week’s Highways Voices podcast. “I hope I don’t disappoint you, I don’t […]
DfT announces £160m road and bridge upgrades
The Government has announced four schemes in Newcastle, Cornwall, Greater Manchester and Southampton, which it estimates will generate £659.3 million in economic benefits for the regions through improved investment, new housing and employment opportunities. In a statement, the Department for Transport says the road and bridge schemes will level up infrastructure across the country, helping […]
Government awards nearly £2m to innovative transport proposals
Entrepreneurs and innovators pioneering new ways of creating a more efficient transport system are being backed by funding from the Department for Transport. 51 projects have been awarded a share of £1.95 million as part of the Government’s Transport Research and Innovation Grant (TRIG) programme – the largest number of projects backed in the programme’s […]
