TfL Board to discuss funding next week

Transport for London’s board is set to meet next Tuesday to discuss the government’s long-term funding deal. London’s financial paper City AM says TfL has confirmed the meeting will take place, but it remains unclear whether the board will accept the proposal made by transport secretary Grant Shapps on 22 July. TfL has been negotiating […]

£7 million fund for local action to cut air pollution

The government is inviting local councils across England to bid for funding from a £7 million pot to find innovative ways to improve the air quality in their areas. The government’s Air Quality Grant helps councils develop and implement measures to benefit schools, businesses and communities and reduce the impact of air pollution on people’s health. The […]

Interim extension of Transport for London funding settlement

An interim extension of the current Transport for London funding settlement has been granted until 13 July 2022 by Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Transport. He said: “Since the start of the pandemic, we have supported the transport network in London with nearly £5 billion funding through extraordinary funding settlements for Transport for London. We […]

Government agrees to extend TfL funding until February

The Government has agreed to extend the emergency funding for Transport for London (TfL) until February 4th. It comes as the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has published a consultation document on budget proposals for the Greater London Authority (GLA) Group, reports Fleet News. The Mayor has also set out a range of proposals that […]

Cycling Scotland funds cycling facilities for residents in social housing

Cycling Scotland has awarded more than £49,900 to improving cycling facilities for residents at social housing developments run by The City of Edinburgh Council and Dunedin Canmore. More than 275 households will benefit from secure bike storage at their homes which will enable more people to use bikes as their main form of transport. In […]

Fundamental shift in funding to local level needed to help ‘level up’ English towns, says National Infrastructure Commission

Levelling up towns will require a shift in government’s approach from announcing multiple ringfenced pots of money – many of which councils must compete over – to instead handing power to local areas to deliver their own infrastructure strategies with five-year devolved budgets, according to the UK’s official infrastructure advisers. In a report launched today, the […]

Scottish government accused of allowing a five-fold increase in potholes

The Scottish Government is being urged to invest more in pothole repair after releasing figures showing the number of potholes on Scotland’s major roads has increased fivefold since the SNP came to power. The Herald Scotland newspaper says figures released in a written answer show 3,981 potholes were reported on trunk roads in 2007/8, compared […]

Highways Voices hears about technology advances in road surfaces

Pollution from tyre micro plastic particles could be one of the next big environmental challenges facing highways authorities, according to Campbell Waddell, Managing Director of surface testing specialists, R3 Ltd. Speaking as part of this weeks Highways News podcast, Highways Voices, Dr Waddell said that tyre manufacturers are putting a lot of research into the […]

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