England’s regional Mayoral Authorities will be given a statutory role in governing, managing, planning and developing the road and rail networks in their... continue
First’s growing Lumo open access operations appear to offer the Group the prospect of continuing significant UK rail operations beyond the re-nationalisation of its current franchised services. First currently operate four franchises – Avanti West Coast, Great Western Railway (GWR),... continue
Prime Minister Keir Starmer set a new target for authorising 150 major infrastructure projects as well as building 1.5 million homes in his speech last week re-booting the Government’s programe, setting six missions in the government’s Plan for Change, at Pinewood Studios. “I... continue
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will require government departments to submit their spending plans to ‘challenge panels’ of private sector experts, including bankers, as part of her forthcoming spending review, now due to determine allocations by late spring. The external experts will... continue
The price of extending the HS2 rail link to London’s Euston and building a new station on the site has increased to over £7.5bn, according to confidential government documents, the Financial Times has reported. In early 2023, the National Audit Office (NAO) nearly doubled its estimate... continue
Sustainable transport is to be prioritised, no longer just promoted, under the revised version of the National Planning Policy Framework just published. The document, heralded by the government as unlocking barriers to new housing development to deliver its promised 1.5 million new homes, addresses... continue
Renationalising train operators should reduce cancellations and late... continue
New proposals to introduce a Workplace Parking Levy in Oxford have been drawn up three years after plans for a previous scheme were shelved. Oxfordshire County Council’s initial plan was for a levy covering the city’s eastern arc, inside the ring road, including parts of north Oxford,... continue
A public consultation is to take place next year on whether Oxford’s Zero Emission Zone should be extended to cover most of the city centre. Since February 2022 a pilot scheme has been operating in a small number of streets in central Oxford. According to Oxfordshire County Council, overall... continue
The High Court has granted permission for campaigners Transport Action Network to proceed to a full judicial review of the government’s key directive on major road building, the National Networks National Policy Statement. The NNNPS was revised by the previous government earlier this year,... continue
Admissibility of legal challenges to Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects was recently considered by the Banner Review, as initiated by the last Government. Planning barrister Lord Charles Banner KC,assisted by Nick Grant, were appointed by then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in February to... continue
The 20mph default speed limit in Wales since September 2023 has so far had a disproportionately large effect on reducing the most severe casualties on roads in built-up areas, data analysis by LTT reveals. The Welsh Government has previously cited reductions in overall casualties on... continue
South Western Railway’s services will become the first to transfer to public ownership in May 2025 when its contract expires, new Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has announced. Trains run by c2c and Greater Anglia will follow suit by July 2025 autumn 2025 respectively. Alexander said that... continue
DfT Operator of Last Resort Holdings Ltd (DOHL) has been renamed DfT Operator Ltd, as the Labour Government continues its preparations to transfer more train operators to public control. The DOHL name reflected the previous Government’s policy that train operation should be competitively... continue
In its first inquiry of the new Parliament, the Transport... continue
The Transport Committee will also investigate the impacts of streetworks and ways to help limit the damage and disruption to England’s roads and pavements from work carried out by utility companies . The MPs will examine how better management, regulation and enforcement could benefit both... continue
Trip rates in the capital have fallen by 10.5% compared with pre-pandemic levels, according to TfL’s new Travel in London report. The average rate now stands at 1.98 trips per person per day across a seven-day week. “Much of the decline in the most recent year reflects a reduction in... continue
Bristol City Council has approved plans to trial the use of fixed ANPR cameras to enforce School Keep Clear restrictions. Although the council currently uses a camera car to patrol schools, it believes there is “potential to deploy fixed cameras on a rotational basis to target particularly... continue
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