Road safety campaigner killed on road he campaigned to make safer
An 81 year old North Yorkshire man has been killed on a road he had campaigned to make safer. John Duggan, a former local councillor from Riccall, died in hospital after a collision between his car and a skip lorry on a section of the A19 he had previously highlighted as being dangerous. Councillor Stephanie […]
NY Highways joins The 5% Club to champion skills development in North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire highways maintenance business NY Highways is proud to announce its membership of The 5% Club, a dynamic movement of employers committed to increasing the number of ‘earn and learn’ opportunities across the UK. By joining, NY Highways is reinforcing its dedication to investing in the future of North Yorkshire’s infrastructure through apprenticeships, graduate […]
BakerHicks secures place on £30 million North Yorkshire highways and transport design services framework
The City of York Council has appointed BakerHicks, the multi-disciplinary design, engineering and project delivery company, to a new four-year framework to help York and the surrounding North Yorkshire Council deliver up to £30m of new Highways and Transport Design Services programmes. The four-year framework will see BakerHicks, alongside five other multi-disciplinary organisations, support the […]
Mobile App parking payments overtake cash in Harrogate
New data reveals that more drivers now opt to pay for parking through the AppyParking app rather than cash in the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire. This transformation in parking behaviour is a result of the town’s smart parking initiative, which began in 2019 with the installation of city-wide parking sensors and the introduction […]
A66 campaigners lose legal challenge
A campaign group has failed in an attempt to bring a High Court legal challenge over the government’s approval of a plan to dual the A66. The BBC reports that the Transport Action Network asked the court for approval to challenge the then-transport secretary’s decision from March to allow the dualling of an 18-mile (29km) […]
“Cultural vandalism”: Local outrage after historic Tadcaster bridge buried
Pressure is mounting to reverse the 2018 burial of a North Yorkshire Victorian railway bridge built by the first pupil of Robert Stephenson. About 150 objections to a retrospective planning application for the £133,000 of works National Highways carried out at Rudgate Bridge, north-west of Tadcaster, have been lodged with the local authority in recent […]
Average speed cameras considered in North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire and York’s first Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner is considering introducing average speed cameras in the county with a view to cutting the number of speeding drivers. The radio station Yorkmix.com reports that Philip Allot has concerns over the current policy of shunning fixed cameras in favour of 12 mobile camera vans, which […]