92% of disabled people face barriers when using transport, says report

92% of disabled people face barriers when using transport, says report

Juliana O'Rourke

Recent research by ncat has found that 92% of disabled people it spoke with faced barriers when using at least one mode of transport, with inaccessible streets and pavements being the biggest obstacles in... continue

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4 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News
Mayors and new Strategic Authorities to get more powers

Mayors and new Strategic Authorities to get more powers

Deniz Huseyin

England’s regional Mayoral Authorities will be... continue

3 Jan 2025Local Transport Today News
Government seeks feedback on revival of 2030 petrol and diesel car phase-out

Government seeks feedback on revival of 2030 petrol and diesel car phase-out

Mark Moran

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander has launched a consultation asking... continue

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An Xmas parking message

Looking back, looking forward: An Xmas parking message

Anjna Patel MBE

Christmas is upon us once more, and as we stand at the... continue

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Starmer sets target of 150 infrastructure projects

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

18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News

‘Sustainable transport’ and ‘vision-led planning’ gets more emphasis in revised NPPF

Peter Stonham

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

18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News
18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News
18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News

Oxfordshire takes fresh look at Workplace Parking Levy

Deniz Huseyin

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

18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News

Proposals drawn up to extend Oxford Zero Emission Zone

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

18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News
18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News

High Court gives go-ahead for legal challenge to DfT over NNNPS

Peter Stonham

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

18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News

Review recommends changes to limit challenges to DCOs

Peter Stonham

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

18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News
New Transport Committee launches first inquiry - into rural buses

New Transport Committee launches first inquiry - into rural buses

Peter Stonham

In its first inquiry of the new Parliament, the Transport... continue

18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News

Demand for travel in capital continues to fall, TfL data shows

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

18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News

First inquiry into into impacts of street works by utility companies

Peter Stonham

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

18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News
18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News

Bristol to trial fixed ANPR cameras outside schools

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

18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News
18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News

Welsh Government again defers giving councils pavement parking powers

Rhodri Clark

The Welsh Government has again deferred powers for local authorities to ban pavement parking, and may now wait until the UK Government takes similar action. The Welsh Government previously expected the powers to come into force in July 2022, but the UK Government did not make the required amendment... continue

18 Dec 2024Local Transport Today News

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