Leeds City Council has partnered with chargepoint operator Believ to roll out a series of fast and rapid electric vehicle charging points across its neighbourhoods. Chargepoints will be installed across several council owned car parks and publicly accessible sites, helping to create a series of EV... continue
Former elected Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson is one of 12 people charged in a probe into council corruption. He faces charges of bribery, misconduct in a public office and conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office, said Merseyside Police. Anderson became a Labour councillor in 1998, went... continue
Transport research will receive £6.9m of the £42m being provided to Universities to establish research hubs designed to link health benefits to the UK’s transition to net zero, LTT understands. The overall project was reported in our last issue (LTT 910). The National Institute... continue
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill aims to facilitate “a faster and more certain consenting process for critical infrastructure” in particular Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs), which the Government says is constraining economic growth and undermining energy... continue
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill promises to introduce “effective new mechanisms for cross-boundary strategic planning”, says the Government “We cannot meet housing need without planning for growth on a larger than local scale. The Bill will therefore implement strategic... continue
National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) Chair Sir John Armitt has welcomed the publication of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill, saying that it “covers all the bases”. He described the Bill as a “bold and broad-ranging package of measures” which should deliver a... continue
The Government has announced £1.5bn funding for 75 selected communities through the Plan for Neighbourhoods initiative run by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. It is a continuation to the last of the previous government’s series of Levelling Up and Town... continue
Bus franchising across Liverpool City Region is to be introduced a year earlier than originally planned. Phase one of the new model – which will bring routes, fares, and timetables under public control – is now due to begin in St Helens in 2026, with Wirral next, before rolling out... continue
Bus, rail and light rail passenger numbers increased for the third... continue
Councils had to spend nearly half a billion pounds again last year to plug a shortfall in their Government funding support for free concessionary bus passes, at the expense of lower fares and other transport services to help more people into work and boost growth, says the Local Government... continue
City of York and the North Yorkshire Council have jointly developed an integrated transport plan which will include exploring the case for bus franchising across the region. The Strategic Transport Framework seeks to aid decision-making and prioritisation for transport investment. A full Local... continue
New infrastructure enabling electric heavy good vehicle (eHGV) charging and hydrogen refuelling will be rolled out across the UK, says the DfT. The network of over 50 hubs will be integrated into the road transport system with convenient locations at depots, motorway services and arterial roads... continue
Over a third (35%) of UK motorists say they have been put off buying or owning a Tesla by the political actions and comments of the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, according to research by The Green Insurer. The impact is particularly pronounced amongst younger drivers, with half (50%) of 18... continue
Three in five respondents to an AA survey said they want ‘smart’ motorways to be scrapped. The survey of more than 13,500 drivers revealed that just 11% said the road network should be left in its current state while 9% said that all running lane systems should be converted to... continue
The backlog of carriageway repairs in England and Wales has risen to almost £17bn while roads are only surfaced, on average, once every 93 years. These are among the figures in this year’s Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey report, commissioned by the Asphalt... continue
Domestic road freight in the UK has been broadly stable since the earliest comparable data in the third quarter of 2021, with a very slight downwards trend, according to the latest Government data. Statistics show that in the 12-month period ending September 2024, there was a 4% drop in the weight... continue
Delivery of the Government’s promised 1.5 million new homes, and planning reforms to streamline development and infrastructure decision-making and construction approvals in transport and other areas, are, as expected, key features in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, now introduced to... continue
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