Amey Consulting models future strategic transport planning in Worcestershire
Amey Consulting has announced its partnership with Worcestershire County Council (WCC) to develop and deliver a new five-year strategic transport model, that will help transform future strategic transport planning in the Worcestershire area. This significant piece of innovative work will help WCC understand transport patterns and impact of regional developments, underpinning all future funding applications. The […]
Worcestershire CC spends £2.5m on drain maintenance programme
Worcestershire County Council has invested £2.5million programme to improve hundreds of drains and gullies across the region. The work aims to reduce the risk of flooding across the county with highways officers tackling 20 countrywide ‘wetspots’ – areas which have often flooded in autumn and winter. Additional funding will mean a number of trash screens, […]
Worcestershire County Council submits bid of £86 million to improve public transport
Worcestershire County Council has submitted a bid of £86million to improve public transport across Worcestershire. Central Government has recently pledged £3billion in funding across the country for local authorities to improve bus services for passengers. In Worcestershire, the council’s funding bid is shaped around its ambitious Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) to the Government to […]
New bus improvement plan aims to transform public transport in Worcestershire
A new Bus Service Improvement Plan with the aim of transforming public transport for residents in Worcestershire has been approved by the County Council. The plan will look to further improve bus provision in the county, with a particular focus on integrating bus services with other modes of travel, introducing multi-operator and multi-modal tickets, improving […]
New on-demand bus service ridership “exceeds expectations”
A new on-demand bus service in Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove has carried more than 800 passengers in its first month of operation. The Bromsgrove Standard says the BOD service, which began on 19 July, enables people to summon and pre-book buses for journeys anywhere in the area and that there have been 802 journeys with […]
Carbon emissions from energy use in streetlighting have reduced by 50% in Worcestershire since 2009/10
Carbon emissions from energy use in street lighting across Worcestershire have reduced by 56% since 2009/10, according to the council. This is despite an increase in the number of street lights across the county supporting further housing and development. These carbon reductions have been realised through targeted replacement of street lighting assets with energy efficient […]
Worcestershire County Council to make ‘major’ investment into its highways and footways
A major investment of £30 million will be made to improve and maintain the county’s highways and footways in the next year. In the budget for 2021/22, which was approved in February’s Full Council meeting, the County Council made the committed to invest capital funds to further improve Worcestershire’s road and footway network. In the […]
