Council to use artificial salt marshes to clean waste water
24/06/2022 A new scheme in Leicestershire will see artificially created salt marshes being used to clean oils, diesel and chemicals in water collected from road gullies. |
Scotland's bus sector gets a £26m lifeline
23/06/2022 The Scottish Government has confirmed an additional £25.7m to extend recovery funding for the country’s bus sector but the current support scheme will end in October. |
West Sussex set to welcome largest-ever EV charger roll-out
23/06/2022 Local authorities in West Sussex are celebrating the largest-ever local authority roll-out of electric vehicle (EV) charging points in the UK. |
Council urges calm as LTN wars break out
22/06/2022 Oxfordshire CC has urged residents ‘to engage constructively’ with its consultation on trial low traffic neighbourhoods after vandalism costing £12,000. |
Unleash wave of mayoral devo, says think tank
20/06/2022 A report from the centre right Onward think tank has urged the Government to step back from ‘micromanaging’ England’s cities and counties and unleash a wave of mayoral devolution. |
Scottish council to deliver school meals by drone
17/06/2022 Pupils in remote parts of Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland could soon have their school meals delivered by drone. |
Electric vehicle plug-in grant comes to an end
14/06/2022 The Government is today closing the plug-in grant for cars and says the focus will now be on expanding the public charge point network. |
Charge point operator warns of £1.5bn shortfall in EV funding
08/06/2022 A charge point operator has warned of a £1.5bn shortfall in Government electric vehicle infrastructure funding and called on the private sector to step in. |
Improve town centres and connectivity to ‘level up’, says think tank
07/06/2022 Levelling up should focus on improving town centres and connectivity, and ensuring there is a high quality of low skilled jobs available, think tank says. |
Scotland's Low Emission Zones await enforcement
31/05/2022 Low Emission Zones (LEZs) have been formally introduced in Scotland’s four main cities but will not be enforced for up to two years. |
Council offers support to data analysis businesses
19/05/2022 Milton Keynes Council is offering businesses who are operating in the field of data analysis the opportunity to join a business acceleration programme. |
Road-pricing system fairer than fuel tax
16/05/2022 Charging motorists a levy based on the miles they drive would be fairer than taxing fuel and could address the cost of living crisis, think tank says. |
DfT spent 15 times more on private than public EV chargers
12/05/2022 Study reveals public money spent on installing off-street residential electric vehicle chargers is 15 times what has been spent on public on-street chargers. |
Free bus travel for Ukrainian refugees in Wales
09/05/2022 Refugees fleeing from Ukraine will receive free travel on local bus services, under plans announced by the Welsh Government. |
£200m falls short of saving Johnson's zero emission target
04/05/2022 Prime minister Boris Johnson is set to fail in his pledge to deliver 4,000 zero emission buses to England's roads, despite the Department for Transport having another £200m to spend. |
England’s poorest areas hit hardest by austerity
03/05/2022 Residents living in England’s most deprived areas were hit hardest by the largest local authority spending cuts during a decade of austerity, think tank says. |
City council invites businesses to test-drive electric vans
29/04/2022 Nottingham City Council is inviting businesses to test-drive a new electric van before taking a fully-funded one-month trial. |
Shapps confirms e-scooter legalisation in Queen’s Speech
28/04/2022 Transport secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed he will make an announcement about the legalisation surrounding e-scooters in next month’s Queen’s Speech. |
Campaigners call for e-scooter regulation to improve safety
26/04/2022 Campaigners have joined forces and written an open letter to call for e-scooters to be legalised across the UK in order to dramatically improve safety. |
Vast majority of EV drivers use public chargers
21/04/2022 The majority of electric vehicle (EV) drivers use public charge points with 40% using them once a week, a new survey has revealed. |
Nottingham council rolls out Oyster-style contactless ticketing system
11/04/2022 Nottingham City Council has successfully rolled out the first Oyster-style contactless ticketing system in the country outside of London. |
DfT launches £30m competition to drive local highways decarbonisation
07/04/2022 DfT has launched the second round of the Live Labs competition, which is aimed at supporting projects to decarbonise local highways infrastructure. |
Only a quarter of councils published EV strategies
07/04/2022 Only a quarter of local authorities in the UK have published electric vehicle (EV) transition strategies, a freedom of information (FOI) request has revealed. |
Burnham will support Manchester Airport ‘any way we can’
06/04/2022 Mayor Burnham has attempted to reassure passengers stuck at Manchester Airport that the GMCA is working to ‘support them in any way we can’. |
Councils ‘shafted’ over £1bn bus funding allocations
05/04/2022 The Government has announced a raft of local transport cash allocations but the news was overshadowed by angry local reactions. |
Charity calls for ‘mobility credits’ to promote shared transport
04/04/2022 England’s councils have been urged to introduce incentives for people to give up private vehicles to help increase the use of shared transport. |
Shapps launches £10m pilot EV charging fund
01/04/2022 Transport secretary Grant Shapps has written to local authority chief executives to launch a pilot £10m bidding scheme to boost local EV infrastructure. |
Government announces £2.5m mobility service
29/03/2022 The Government today announced a new funding package to roll out a mobility service to help people unable to drive access alternative forms of transport. |
Consultation on end date for sale of new non-zero emission buses launched
29/03/2022 The Department for Transport has launched a consultation on setting an end date for the sale of new non-zero emission buses, coaches and minibuses. |
Local areas to share £200m to help fund zero emission buses
28/03/2022 Twelve areas in England will share grants totalling nearly £200m to help fund zero emission buses and charging or fuelling infrastructure. |
West Midlands gets ready for fleet of 124 hydrogen buses
28/03/2022 A fleet of 124 new hydrogen fuelled buses will be taking to the streets of the West Midlands following the approval of a £30m Department for Transport grant. |
Fuel prices hit school transport services
25/03/2022 Spiralling fuel costs are impacting school transport services, with councils set to have to pay providers more or face pupils unable to access free transport. |
Council chiefs welcome £1.6bn EV charge point strategy
25/03/2022 Local authorities have welcomed a new Government strategy designed to boost the roll-out of 300,000 electric vehicle charge points by 2030. |
Ratio of public chargers to EVs ‘rapidly deteriorated’
24/03/2022 The ratio of public standard chargers to electric vehicles has ‘rapidly deteriorated’, the automotive industry has warned. |
Industry leaders call for ‘step change’ in EV charger roll-out
22/03/2022 Industry leaders have called for a ‘step change’ in the UK’s electric vehicle (EV) charging roll-out to deliver the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars. |
Charity warns shared transport 'underrepresented' in councils' strategies
18/03/2022 Scottish councils have been urged to create incentives for people who give up their private cars in favour of shared transport by a charity. |
Call for Government-led campaign to promote bus travel
15/03/2022 Reduced passenger numbers could lead to big service cuts without a national Government-led campaign to get people back on board, transport campaigners say. |
Greater Manchester bus journeys to cost £2
15/03/2022 Mayor Andy Burnham yesterday announced that under a franchised bus network adult single journeys would cost no more than £2 and single child journeys £1. |
Judge backs Greater Manchester bus franchising
10/03/2022 The giant Stagecoach Group has failed in its attempt to block plans for bus franchising in Greater Manchester. |
Council announces measures to make Liverpool’s transport network safer for women
08/03/2022 Liverpool City Council has launched a series of measures aimed at making public transport in the city safer for women and girls. |
Mayor Khan requests consultation on ULEZ expansion
04/03/2022 The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, will today announce in a keynote speech in Forest Hill that he is asking Transport for London (TfL) to consult on expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) London-wide in 2023. |
Government announces £150m final funding package for bus services
02/03/2022 Ministers have announced a £150m, ‘final tranche’ of pandemic-related support to bus and light rail operators across England, a month before existing funding is due to end. |
Liverpool City Region takes steps to bring bus services under public control
28/02/2022 Plans to franchise bus services across the Liverpool City Region have taken a step forward, said mayor Steve Rotheram. |
Public transport in UK's biggest cities ranked the most expensive in Europe
24/02/2022 Public transport in some of the UK’s biggest cities is the most expensive in Europe, new research has revealed. |
Zero Emission Zone to be extended across Oxford city centre
21/02/2022 Plans to extend the Zero Emission Zone (ZEZ) from the current pilot area to cover the entire city centre in Oxford have been unveiled. |
Automotive industry calls for mandated targets to boost EV infrastructure
16/02/2022 The UK automotive industry has called for mandated targets for the roll-out of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure supported by ring-fenced funding for local authorities. |
Bike hire schemes reduce car use by 3.7 miles per user every week, report finds
15/02/2022 Bike share schemes across the UK have reduced car mileage for each user by an estimated 3.7 miles every week, a new report has found. |
A third of bus services could be cut without emergency funding, experts warn
14/02/2022 Councils have warned nearly a third of bus services will be axed unless emergency funding is extended beyond the end of March. |
New greenfield developments encouraging congestion, report argues
08/02/2022 New housing developments on greenfield land are locking local communities into car dependency, a report has argued. |
Airport expansion ‘flies in the face’ of democracy
03/02/2022 The leader of North Somerset Council has expressed his ‘extreme disappointment’ at a decision to allow the expansion of Bristol Airport. |
Councils urges rethink of overground HS2 station
21/01/2022 An underground station to accommodate HS2 in Manchester would deliver economic benefits worth £333m a year more than the current overground plan, new analysis has found. |
Councils concerned taxis ‘not aware’ of upcoming tax checks
06/01/2022 Council leaders are concerned that taxi and private hire vehicle (PHV) operators are ‘not aware’ of forthcoming conditionality tax checks, research finds. |
County council launches ‘Vaxi Taxi’ scheme
14/12/2021 Suffolk County Council has partnered with local taxi companies to offer a free taxi service to help young people get the COVID-19 vaccination. |
More power to metro mayors, northern leaders say
06/12/2021 Business and civic leaders in the North have called for metro mayors to be given more powers over transport infrastructure, education and skills to drive the ‘levelling-up’ agenda. |
Northern leaders call for re-think on 'woefully inadequate' rail plan
30/11/2021 Political leaders from across the North have written to the transport secretary to ‘propose a way forward’ on Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR). |
Bus operators warn of £5bn funding gap
26/11/2021 Bus operators have warned of a multi-billion-pound funding gap between plans by local authorities and bus operators to improve services and the funding promised by the Government. |
Commuter train line exposed to ‘extreme levels’ of pollution
22/11/2021 Three councils have warned that residents living near the commuter train line running through the Chilterns are being exposed to dangerous levels of pollution. |
Bradford has worst rail connections of any major British city
15/11/2021 The Yorkshire city of Bradford has the worst rail connections of any major British city, a new study of thousands of train journeys has found. |
Councils warn investment in bus services is vital to meet climate targets
10/11/2021 The Government must fully fund the concessionary bus fares scheme if councils are to decarbonise fleets, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned. |
Greater Manchester plans carbon neutral transport network
09/11/2021 Greater Manchester has set out its ambition to become the first city-region with a carbon neutral transport network. |
E-bikes have potential to replace 100 million care and taxi trips, says report
02/11/2021 Over 100 million car and taxi trips made in city regions could be replaced by e-bikes if the Government meets its targets on getting more people to cycle, a new report said. |
Budget 2021: National Highways faces £3.4bn funding cut
27/10/2021 National Highways is facing a major funding cut of some £3.4bn after today’s Budget, with the total for the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS 2) dropping dramatically from the £27.4bn announced last year to £24bn. |
Government ‘must step in’ to deliver on 4,000 zero-emission buses promise
25/10/2021 A transport charity is calling for more to be done to deliver a zero-emission bus fleet as figures reveal only a tiny proportion of buses on the road are currently electric. |
Cabinet backs 20-20 vision for Oxfordshire
20/10/2021 Councillors in Oxfordshire have backed plans for widespread 20mph limits as part of an ‘ambitious and innovative’ new transport plan that aims to create a ‘healthier, better digitally connected, more active’ county. |
Suffolk backs £50m bid to bring smart ticketing to buses
13/10/2021 A £50m plan to transform bus services in Suffolk, providing contactless and multi-operator ticketing and daily fare caps has been backed by county councillors. |
‘Shameful inequities’ driving the young out of the countryside
13/10/2021 Young people are abandoning rural communities due to a lack of public transport and affordable housing despite the Government’s much-vaunted ‘levelling up’ agenda, a countryside charity has warned. |
Councils face legal obligation to plan and deliver for EVs
06/10/2021 The Government is considering imposing a statutory duty on local authorities to plan and deliver for electric vehicle infrastructure. |
MPs call for metrics and monitoring to prevent white elephants
30/09/2021 The levelling up agenda ‘needs to move beyond rhetoric and on to delivery, requiring targets and metrics to enable Parliament and public to identify success’, MPs have said. |
County warns fuel crisis hitting school transport services
29/09/2021 School transport services are being affected by the fuel crisis and shortage of drivers, a county council has warned. |
Government advisers press for funding overhaul
22/09/2021 The body charged with advising ministers on infrastructure has said competitive funding pots should be replaced. |
Wales introduces COVID passes for events
17/09/2021 People will have to show a NHS COVID Pass to enter nightclubs and attend events in Wales from next month, the First Minister announced today. |
Sunderland’s e-scooter trial will continue into 2022
17/09/2021 Sunderland’s e-scooter trial will continue into 2022 so that more data on their use can be gathered. |
Council set to discuss £500,000 loan to support EV battery production
17/09/2021 Coventry City Council is to discuss a £500,000 loan to help the new UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) take on new business. |
County audit post-16 transport allocations following investigation
16/09/2021 Staffordshire County Council has agreed to audit a fifth of its post-16 transport applications after the ombudsman criticised the way it had made decisions. |
The future of e-mobility is built on rapid charging
13/09/2021 Menno Kardolus explains how e-mobility, smart energy management and rapid charging, will be key to enabling smart cities to grow and develop. |
Shell aims to install 50,000 EV chargepoints
01/09/2021 Shell has announced that it aims to install 50,000 on-street electric vehicle (EV) chargers through their company ubitricity across the UK by the end of 2025. |
Utilising the power of hydrogen
23/08/2021 Manish Patel discusses the Government’s new Decarbonising Transport Strategy and the opportunities it brings to local authorities. |
Reading council leads on £3.3m project to transform station
18/08/2021 Works for major improvements to Reading West Station began this week with roadworks on the Oxford Road to make space for a brand new station building. |
Liverpool e-scooter trial sees over 1,000 bans handed out
17/08/2021 Liverpool's e-scooter hire trial has seen more than 1,000 people handed seven-day bans for antisocial behaviour. |
Council awarded £4m for next phase of station’s transformation
16/08/2021 The next phase of Newcastle Central Station’s transformation is expected to begin in September following the appointment of construction company, Tolent. |
Northumberland council scheme sees return of ‘lost rail services’
13/08/2021 Six new railway stations are to be built and 18 miles of track are to be upgraded as part of Northumberland council's effort to ‘restore lost rail services’. |
Multi-million pound boost to cycling and walking budget
30/07/2021 The Government has announced a £338m funding package to build more cycle lanes and deliver walking schemes to help boost active travel. |
Government launches £1.6bn disability strategy
28/07/2021 The Government has launched a new strategy aimed at delivering accessible housing, easier commuting and better job prospects for people living with disabilities. |
First shortlist unveiled for £120m zero emission buses funding
07/07/2021 The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced its first shortlist from the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme, providing £120m to support the roll-out of zero emission buses across England. |
Three more boroughs join London's e-scooter rental trial
05/07/2021 The number of e-scooters available to rent in London is set to double after three more boroughs joined the trial. |
Labour warns UK needs more than 127,000 chargepoints by 2025
29/06/2021 The UK has only 15% of the electric vehicle charging points it needs to meet net zero, according to new analysis. |
Council prosecutes firm over traffic jams
23/06/2021 Thames Water has been prosecuted by a London borough after creating what the council said were unnecessary traffic jams three times in less than a fortnight. |
Councils can issue traffic fines from December
15/06/2021 Powers to enforce moving traffic offences will not be extended to local authorities in England outside London until the end of the year, a Department for Transport (DfT) minister has said. |
Over £600m awarded to 26 new Town Deals
08/06/2021 The Government has announced the latest round of towns deals, which will see 26 towns across England share over £600m. |
Planning reform will lead to ‘tide of car traffic’, campaigners say
06/05/2021 Ten organisations have written to housing secretary Robert Jenrick urging changes to proposed planning reforms which they argue will lead to a ‘tide of car traffic’ to already overcrowded roads. |
Londoners top list of people most satisfied with where they live
29/04/2021 Residents of built up commuter and ‘affluent’ towns, particularly those living in London, are the most satisfied with where they live, according to new research. |
Crowdfunding platform launches offer to roll out EV chargers in Greater Manchester
19/04/2021 Crowdfunding platform Abundance Investment Ltd has launched an offer to fund the roll out of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure throughout the Greater Manchester area. |
Navigating the new National Bus Strategy
09/04/2021 Bus Users explains what responsibilities local authorities will have for community engagement under the new National Bus Strategy. |
‘Left behind’ neighbourhoods isolated by poor public transport
01/04/2021 People living in ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods are cut off from urban centres and services due to poor public transport and low car ownership, new report finds. |
Get aboard zero-emission bus scheme, DfT says
30/03/2021 The Government has launched its £120m fund scheme to help local transport authorities in England roll out zero-emission buses. |
Minister announces £30m to boost battery and hydrogen technology
30/03/2021 The Government has announced over £30m of investment in battery technology, the electric vehicle supply chain and hydrogen vehicles. |
Burnham takes back control with bus franchising
26/03/2021 Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has confirmed that he plans to implement bus franchising in the city region ‘as part of plans for a joined-up and truly passenger-focused transport network’. |
Coventry gets go-ahead for all-electric buses
24/03/2021 Coventry is set to become the UK’s first All Electric Bus City after the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) backed the project. |
Johnson unveils £3bn plan to 'shake-up' bus services
15/03/2021 Councils are being urged to enter into a statutory ‘enhanced partnership’ or franchising agreements with bus companies in order to receive new funding from the Government. |
Pandemic could lead to rise in road traffic levels, data warns
04/03/2021 Traffic levels in some of the UK’s largest cities have nearly returned to pre-pandemic levels, new data has revealed. |
Shell is helping power the journey towards a circular paving industry with Shell Bitumen LT R, a new product for roads that uses plastics destined for landfill as part of the additives to make the bitumen.
Effective Energy Group is now offering its support to the 40 Local Authorities who have received a share of the £430m to deliver their projects on the ground by surveying properties and installing measures.
Dougie Belmore explains how one of the main interfaces between you and Bacs is about to change.