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Highways Heroes: Learning the language of inclusion

Traffic officer Stewart Fox has been nominated by Highways England as a Highways Hero after showing leadership in learning and promoting the use of British Sign Language (BSL) to support deaf customers on the network. He speaks to Dominic Browne about BSL, being an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion champion, and making a difference just by being nice.
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Thousands of flood defence assets in poor condition

Environment Agency inspections found that more than 3,400 vital flood defence assets across England were in poor condition last year.
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Councils report nearly 5% dip in parking surplus

Local authorities in England have said a slight dip in the surplus them make on parking activities could impact their ability to fix potholes and tackle congestion.
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Exclusive: Highways England's active travel claims don't add up

Highways England has been unable to support its claim to have completed 160 cycle schemes between 2015-20 under its Designated Funds programme.
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AIA: 'Get involved to sound the alarm'

Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) chair Rick Green calls on councils to participate in the 2021 ALARM survey so highways maintenance gets the public and political attention it deserves.
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Highways England forks out for cycle network's missing link

Highways England is promising to resolve a ‘missing link’ on one of the National Cycle Network’s key routes by extending the A36 cycleway in Salisbury.
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Councils aim low with on-street charger plans

Councils are planning on installing just 35 on-street electric vehicle chargers each by 2025 on average, an investigation has revealed.
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TfL plugs transport links in 'largest development yet'

Transport for London has secured planning permission for a new development that it said will deliver 852 new homes for rent and sale, including 50% affordable housing.
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Judge throws out Khan's 'great reallocation'

The High Court has overturned London mayor Sadiq Khan’s Streetspace for London Plan, which was introduced in May last year in response to the pandemic.
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Snow follows rain as Christoph hits the North

Homes have been evacuated in Northern England and Wales and transport disrupted after storm Christoph caused severe flooding.
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Oxford aims for '30 by 25' air pollution target

Oxford City Council has said it is the first local authority in the UK to approve a city-wide air pollution reduction target.
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Concrete roads upgrade launched with £39m framework

Highways England has awarded the first of three multi-million-pound contracts that will 'revitalise concrete road surfaces across the country'.
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Highways England 'considering findings' of CCTV stopped vehicle trial

Highways England has met a pledge in its Delivery Plan to carry out a large-scale trial of a CCTV-based alternative to its existing stopped vehicle detection system.
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Highways Heroes: A win-win for all

During the first lockdown in April of this year, IHE junior vice president Ellie Gormley had no time to sit and enjoy the sun; she was busy shopping for eight vulnerable residents in her local area of Rugeley, Staffordshire.
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Highways Heroes: The right treatment

Paul Boss, chief executive of the Road Surface Treatments Association, speaks to Dominic Browne about overcoming challenges on the front line and working behind the scenes to ensure the sector could keep going.
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Skates backs Commission on M4 alternatives

The Welsh Government has set up a dedicated 'Development Unit' to take forward the recommendations of the South East Wales Transport Commission after endorsing all of them.
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Council hits £10m parking income

Councils are issuing fines worth an average of £850,000 a year for parking offences, with one raking in more than £10m, according to new research.
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Smart motorways: Hard shoulder removal 'contributed to deaths'

The widow of a man killed on a smart motorway has thanked the coroner who described such schemes as presenting ‘an ongoing risk of future deaths’ and called for a new review into their safety.
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Campaigners call on councils to help cut car use

Environmental campaigners have called on local authorities to cancel spending on road building and redirect funds to boost public transport and active travel.
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Khan wants £2bn a year for TfL as fares rise and cuts bite

Transport for London (TfL) has made a pitch for £3.1bn government funding for the next financial year as it published details of fare rises and cuts to services.
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National Pothole Day survey finds network in decline

A major survey taken to mark National Pothole Day has found that 81% of local authorities believe the pothole crisis has become worse over the last five years.
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UK to close all travel corridors from Monday

All travel corridors to the UK will be closed from 4am Monday (18 January), meaning any passengers travelling to the country must obtain a negative COVID test 72 hours before departure.
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DfT slashes train timetables again to save cash

Rail services across Great Britain are set to be cut to around 72% of pre-pandemic levels.
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Shapps delays testing for inbound passengers

Labour has described the Government as ‘slipping into utter chaos’ after ministers delayed the introduction of compulsory COVID testing for passengers arriving in England.
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TRL calls for 'progress now' on decarbonisation

TRL will this year launch a new academic service to support organisations in the new aspects of the transition to zero-carbon transport.
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TfN funding cuts 'undermine levelling up' pledge

The chief executive of Transport for the North has warned that government cuts to its funding will cause a ‘significant scaling back’ of its work, including its ability to progress Northern Powerhouse Rail.
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TfL held to account over casualty rates

Transport for London has unveiled a new online tool that it said will enable organisations and the public to see the level of road casualties in the capital.
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New signs point the way to vaccine roll-out

The Department for Transport has published examples of new signs to guide traffic to COVID-19 vaccination centres in support of the national vaccination plan.
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Traffex roars back to the future with hybrid format

Traffex Parkex returns this year as a full hybrid exhibition, backed by a COVID peace of mind guarantee.
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Cities set to run UK’s first all-electric bus services

Coventry and Oxford are set to receive up to £50m to help them become the first parts of the UK to run all-electric bus services.
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HS2 minister warns of 'chilling impact' if project is dropped

HS2 minister Andrew Stephenson has said scrapping HS2 now would have a 'chilling impact' on the construction sector in the UK and send a 'terrible message' in response to the pandemic.
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DfT could mandate testing for UK arrivals

Ministers are considering new measures to prevent new cases of COVID-19 being imported into the UK, including pre-departure testing for people arriving here.
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EVs take 10% of market as car sales plummet

New car registrations fell by 30% in 2020, but it was ‘a bumper year’ for battery and plug-in hybrid electric cars.
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Council given power to tackle antisocial lorry parking

Kent County Council has been given new powers to clamp and fine lorries that are illegally or inappropriately parked.
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Councils warned to push ahead with clean air zones

Air pollution exceeds pre-pandemic levels in 80% of places despite continued lockdown restrictions, new research has uncovered.
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Funding gap 'devastates' rural bus services

Rural and remote bus services saw journeys fall by 97 million last year due to a £348m funding gap, a new report has warned.
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'We can do better than central govt' on emissions, local leaders say

Local and regional leaders representing around a third of the population of England and Scotland have committed to going ‘further and faster’ than central government by eliminating carbon emissions in their communities at least five years earlier.
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NHT results revealed

The National Highways and Transport Public Satisfaction Survey this year threw in new questions and provided new comparisons although the big question remains the same: of the 109 authorities that took part, who came out on top?
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Carbon plan late but ‘green’ number plates arrive

The Government’s pledge to go ‘further and faster to tackle climate change’ has taken a blow after the Department for Transport (DfT) admitted its flagship transport decarbonisation plan has been delayed.
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Tories relying on Labour councils to boost cycling

Labour-controlled unitary authorities in England are more likely to implement Conservative government policy supporting cycling, new research has found.
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£1bn rail enhancements cut 'shoots us in the foot'

Ministers have admitted that the cash available for enhancements to the rail network during the current five-year period will be £1bn lower than promised.
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Bus industry faces £500m recovery challenge in first year

The bus industry has laid out plans for its recovery and long-term sustainability, based on flexible local arrangements and central government support worth up to £500m in the first year alone.
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Leeds set to scrap CAZ but could keep ANPR

Leeds City Council is set to scrap its Clean Air Zone (CAZ) plans after businesses switched to cleaner vehicles in anticipation, and could repurpose the scheme's vehicle tracking technology.
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UK awaits 'world-leading' framework for AV trials

There is no sign of a promised process for approving advanced trials of autonomous vehicles, nearly three years after ministers pledged to ‘make world-leading changes to the regulatory framework’.
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Matheson finds another £53m for buses

The Scottish Government has approved new spending of up to £52.6m to help bus operators maintain services during the pandemic.
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All at sea? Network Rail backtracks on beach plans

Network Rail will ‘refine’ plans to improve resilience along a 1.8km stretch of railway in the South West after more than half of respondents to a consultation expressed disapproval.
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Welsh councils to get pavement parking enforcement powers

Councils in Wales could have greater powers to prevent pavement parking by 2022 after ministers backed recommendations from an independent taskforce.
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£4m to take Glasgow and Edinburgh networks through to 2021

The Scottish Government has pledged a further £4m emergency funding for Glasgow Subway and Edinburgh Trams in response to the ongoing financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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AA highlights local road spend disparity

The AA has accused some councils in England of doing ‘next to nothing’ by way of maintenance on their road network.
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Brown signs off with a gong as Queen honours COVID heroes

Former Transport for London commissioner Mike Brown has been awarded a CBE in the delayed Queen’s Birthday Honours, which have seen transport workers and others recognised for their work during the pandemic.
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Scotland reverses Beeching cut with £15m station

The Aberdeenshire town of Kintore will this week see the return of rail services after an absence of almost 60 years.
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Uber to carry on in London, despite 'historical failings'

Uber has won its appeal to be allowed to operate in London despite its 'historical failings'.
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Thousands thrown off trains as exemptions confusion continues

Four train firms have launched a new pilot in London with British Transport Police (BTP) ‘to further encourage people to wear face coverings’, backed by the threat of removal from trains or fines.
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Govt announces £2m to encourage children to cycle and walk

The Government will be making £2m available to help encourage children to walk or cycle to school.
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Councils seek MPs’ help over lorry parks

Local authorities have called on MPs to help lobby the Government over the creation of lorry parks to cope with no-deal Brexit border disruption.
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Network Rail must stay ahead on green goals, Haines warns

Network Rail has published a new Environmental Sustainability Strategy, setting out a vision ‘to serve the nation with the cleanest, greenest mass transport’.
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A96 left out as Scotland advertises North trunk road deals

The Scottish Government has published contract notices for the two remaining trunk road maintenance deals, worth around £1.4bn.
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The A14 story part 2: Economy plus ecology

The second in our series of exclusive behind-the-scenes briefings on the award winning A14 scheme from the team at Atkins. This week Highways hears about how a legacy of wildlife habitat innovations was achieved.
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Staffs e-scooter trial goes Live

Staffordshire County Council and Amey have partnered with two electric scooter providers to launch micromobility trials as part of the ADEPT Smart Places Live Labs programme.
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Highways England signs up to new disability help

Highways England is introducing new resources to make it easier for people with disabilities to use its network.
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London traffic control extensions for Siemens and Cubic

Siemens and Cubic Transportation Systems have also secured one-year extensions to their Traffic Control Maintenance contracts with Transport for London, Highways has learned.
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Telent gets green light for signals contract extension

Transport for London has given Telent a one-year extension on its Traffic Control Maintenance contract.
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Kier announces another big loss as pandemic 'stalls progress'

Kier Group made a loss of £225m in the year to 30 June 2020 as the pandemic hit its revenues.
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Rail franchising ends as DfT prepares ground for new era

Ministers have ‘ended’ rail franchising after 24 years but placed existing operators onto transitional contracts while they work out exactly what to replace it with.
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'Job losses across country' if TfL funding is not fixed

London mayor Sadiq Khan has made a new pitch for government funding for the capital’s cash strapped transport services, warning that jobs across the country are at risk.
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Cambridge autonomous shuttle plans off track

Trials of an autonomous passenger shuttle in Cambridge have been scaled back and will no longer seek to use the city’s controversial guided busway.
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Highways England trials 60mph limits to cut pollution

Highways England is trialling 60mph speed limits on short sections of its network to bring air pollution within legal limits.
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Citizen's Climate Assembly calls for reductions in car and air travel

The first citizens’ assembly on climate change has called for tough action including limiting the growth of car and plane travel and ending the sale of the most polluting vehicles.
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Parents call on councils to improve school air quality

Parents and charities have called on local authorities to improve air quality at schools as research suggests a 50% reduction in pollution could halve the number of children with poor lung function.
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Transport Network's magnificent seven

The Transport Network team celebrates another milestone.
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Mott hits the final spot

Highways England has appointed Mott MacDonald to the final place on its Regional Delivery Partnership (RDP) technical adviser framework in a deal worth up to £20m.
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M4 at centre of 'stolen powers' debate

There are concerns in Wales that the UK Government may use powers ‘stolen’ from devolved nations to build the £1.5bn M4 Relief Road at Newport – which Welsh ministers cancelled last year.
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