Nottingham City Council submits planning permission for new pedestrian and cycling bridge over the Trent
Nottingham City Council has submitted a planning application for a pedestrian and cyclist – ‘Waterside Bridge’ across the River Trent. Spades will be in the ground building the new bridge by summer 2024, and the bridge is expected to be completed by late 2025. The Waterside Bridge project is being delivered using grant funding secured from Central Government […]
Work on improved cycle routes in the Nottingham area of Bilborough moves onto Hollington Road
The next phase of cycle path construction continues in Bilborough as work moves onto Hollington Road. Nottingham City Council has received funding from the Government to improve access to employment and aid sustainable travel as part of the Transforming Cities Fund. Following a positive public consultation work started in summer 2024 to create a new, […]
Survey of bus and tram users reveals what people want to see in Nottingham
A passenger survey has revealed that people rate the city’s public transport system highly – but would like to see more buses and trams. Nottingham City Council asked the questions over July and August this year, based on a similar survey from 2019, to give the public an opportunity to explain what works well and […]
Work starts to build better walking and cycling routes into the city of Nottingham
Construction will start on 31 July to build a new walking and cycling route in Bilborough along Beechdale Road, Hollington Road and Wigman Road. Using the latest design standards, existing on-road cycle lanes will be replaced with better, safer segregated paths, and improvements will be made to junctions and pedestrian crossings. These upgraded routes will […]
National transport group shown the benefits the UK’s only Workplace Parking Levy has brought to Nottingham
The UK’s leading sustainable transport campaign group, Campaign for Better Transport, has visited Nottingham as part of celebrations for fifty years of campaigning and to see for itself how the country’s only Workplace Parking Levy (WPL) has revolutionised how people travel around the city. As Director for External Affairs, Norman Baker finally got a chance […]
Streets for People programme making good progress in Nottingham
Nearly 60 resurfacing schemes have been completed so far this year across the city of Nottingham. In 2021, the council successfully bid as part of a competitive process for £18 million from the Government’s Levelling Up fund to improve streets and local town centres and make walking and cycling easier and safer. The largest chunk […]
New bus lane on the A610 will cut journey times and improve the reliability of bus services
The new A610 bus lane will cut journey times and improve the reliability of northbound bus services, according to Transport Nottingham. Bus services that will benefit from the introduction of the bus lane and further bus priority measures include the high frequency rainbow one service operated by trentbarton, whilst retaining all existing road capacity for all […]
