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Edinburgh adopts Playing Out street closure scheme
Edinburgh is to roll out a programme that allows residents to temporarily close their roads to enable children to play safely outside. The council’s transport and envi
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Express toll lanes - big in the US, so why weren't they considered in Cambridgeshire?
The first automated toll lanes opened in 1995 in the median of State Route 91 east of Los Angeles. These additional lanes were designed to accommodate High-Occupancy Vehicles (HOVs
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Far North sleeper train probed
Hitrans, the Highland and Islands transport partnership, has appointed consultant SYSTRA to explore the case for a sleeper train between Edinburgh/Glasgow and Wick or Thurso (LTT 2
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Carbro joins Nexus
Nexus, The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive, has appointed Mick Carbro Metro director. He was formerly Nexus' Metro operations director and takes over from Ken Mackay, w
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No shortage of interest in second round of TIF
The DfT will get a further indication of local authority interest in road pricing next week when it receives bids from across England for a share of pump-priming funds from the dem
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‘Mayors need the power to appoint their own chief officers’
Peter Davies says his experiences in office show how the Government needs to change the legislation to give elected mayor’s more powers. One thing he would like is the the
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Modelling revisions strengthen HS2 business case
Government company HS2 Ltd has revised the business case for the London-West Midlands high-speed route and the wider Y-network that will see trains run to Leeds and Manchester. Th
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RAC Foundation publishes legal opinion on private parking
Parking charge notices issued to motorists on private land are out of proportion to the losses suffered by landholders, which means they are not enforceable, according to a new rep
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Job claims of transport investment may prove illusory, say professors
Investment in transport infrastructure may not always deliver the employment benefits touted by project promoters, some of the country’s leading transport academics have told
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More lean, less mean
Transport for London (TfL) is planning a radical overhaul of how it runs its enforcement regime. Changes under its ‘Fair deal to drivers’ programme include increasing t
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LEPs urge £1bn+ spend on east-west links
Local enterprise Partnerships covering central southern England are calling for more than £1bn to be spent on improving east-west road and rail links between Cambridge, Milto
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Introduction
We need to think imaginatively in the current climate. Northamptonshire County Council shows the way. The authority is finding ways to improve road condition and better meet mobili
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City approves daytime traffic restriction at Bank junction
The City of London Corporation this week approved plans to ban all but buses and cyclists from one of the Square Mile’s busiest junctions between 0700 and 1900 Mondays-Friday
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Severn crossings will be free from 2018
Drivers will see an end to tolls on the Severn Crossings in 2018, Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns has announced. The UK government said it delivering on a promise by Prime
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Make reducing car travel ‘top priority’
Ministers have been urged to adopt a transport policy hierarchy that puts reducing the need to travel by motorised modes at the top and new capacity for motorised modes at the bott
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Sky Hires hires survey expert McGivern
Traffic survey company Sky High Technology has appointed transport survey expert Jon McGivern to manage its new office in Cardiff. McGivern joins the traffic survey and analysis s
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Green light for hundreds of local transport improvements
Ministers this week gave the go-ahead to hundreds of local transport schemes across England in growth deals struck with Local Enterprise Partnerships. About £1.8bn of
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Stagecoach appoints TfL bus director to lead council relations
Stagecoach has appointed Transport for London’s former director of performance, Clare Kavanagh, to its UK Bus division. Kavanagh joins as service development director
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RingGo stars in Basingstoke transfer of phone parking
Tesco and Volkswagen plans to install around 2,400 charging bays at up to 600 stores by 2020. The charging bays will be based in Tesco Extra and Superstore car parks throughout the
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Local authorities must do more to recruit graduate transport planners
The article on the front page of your latest sister publication Jobs in Transport bears comment from the perspective of a transport planning student. Whether undergraduate or post-
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Network Rail targets overseas consultancy work
Network Rail is restructuring its business to compete for consultancy work overseas and infrastructure enhancement projects in the UK. The programme involves creating new bidding a
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Smart motorways to connect major cities
England’s biggest cities will be linked by a continuous network of smart motorways within ten years, with permanent hard shoulder running and variable mandatory speed limits.
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Parking invades primetime with ITV documentary series
ITV has been screening a fly-on-the-wall documentary series devoted to the parking sector. Parking Wars features local authority parking teams, drivers contesting penalties,
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Atkins’ Intelligent Mobility team grows
Consultancy Atkins has expanded its Intelligent Mobility (iM) practice with four appointments. The new recruits specialise in research and development, human factors, cyborg
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4x4 owners criticised again
The debate about 4x4 sports utility vehicles and their use in urban environments was reignited recently by the publication of research into their effect on road safety. According t
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Roads for prosperity: Highways England champions economy role
Consultation ends this week on Highways England’s proposal for a strategic economic growth plan, setting out how investment in England’s 4,400 miles of strategic
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TfL prepares Silvertown Tunnel DCO application
Transport for London is to submit a development consent order (DCO) application to the Planning Inspectorate in April for powers to construct the Silvertown road tunnel in east Lon
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TfL must justify its claim of speed camera benefits
I note in the 11 December issue that Transport for London stands by its claim of a 58% reduction in fatal and serious collisions (FSCs) due to speed cameras, explaining that in arr
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BPA’s Clark announces retirement
Steve Clark has announced his retirement from the British Parking Association (BPA). He will stand down as director of operations and business development at the end of June 2022.
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Data doesn’t support Bristol’s 20mph active travel claims
It is no surprise that Rod King (Letters LTT 24 Jan) tried to refute many of the points I raised in my Viewpoint article on 20mph speed limits. I will not go through all our points
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Baker keeps door ajar for bus Quality Contracts
No changes to bus regulation will be made in England until after the Competition Commission completes its review of the local bus market next summer, the DfT has announced. &ldquo
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'Stress points' erased at Manchester Airport
The £50m makeover of Manchester Airport’s Terminal One has been completed — based on the advice of psychologists. The experts helped identify and assess where tra
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Enforcement Summit to debate latest trends in traffic and parking management
The government’s proposal to ban the use of CCTV cameras to enforce parking offences will be a key area of debate at the 8th annual Enforcement Summit 2014, which takes place
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Parents stressed by cars, cars and cars
New research from YouGov released to mark the start of International Walk to School Monhas found the Top 10 things British parents of 4 to 11-year-olds find most annoying about the
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TfL and boroughs explore new cycle scheme delivery models
Transport for London, London Councils' and individual boroughs are exploring how expertise can be pooled to deliver the capital’s expanding programme of cycling schemes, as w
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Competition will improve how private parking is regulated
With Sir Greg Knight’s Parking Bill now having received Royal Assent, a new era is dawning for the UK parking industry. There is no doubt the forthcoming legislation will hel
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Accessibility planning: a nice idea stunted by complexity. But there is another way
I was excited when accessibility planning was introduced as part of the local transport plan process in England. But I wasn’t surprised when little appeared to change. A majo
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Slough bus rapid transit scheme consultation begins
Residents and businesses in Slough are being asked for their views on local authority plans for a bus rapid transit service along a busy commuter road in Berkshire. The £8m
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Muddled transport thinking in Oxfordshire housing estates
You report Oxfordshire County Council criticising new housing developments for not providing enough room for buses (“Street design in new housing estates ‘too restricti
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PCNs down by 130,000 in Westminster
There has been a fall of 130,000 in penalty charge notices (PCNs) issued in Westminster over the past year, according to new council figures. This represents a 15% reduction in PCN
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Uber fights TfL’s decision to terminate its operating licence
The future of app-based private hire platform Uber in London will be decided by the courts following Transport for London’s decision not to renew Uber’s licence from th
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The HS1 story shows why HS2 will be a success
Joe Rukin, the founder of campaign group Stop HS2, implies that capacity is an afterthought in the debate over HS2, but he is wrong (Letters LTT 29 Jul). The capacity of the West C
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London bus passenger miles up
3.996bn passenger miles were travelled on London buses in 2003/04, transport minister Karen Buck told Clive Betts (Lab), a 12.15% increase on the 3.563bn passenger miles travelled
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Parking levy urged for out-of-town retailing
A Welsh think tank has proposed a levy on parking at out-of-town shopping centres to raise funds for sustainable transport, and claims the idea has some support in councils. The r
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ParkCloud now taking reservations for Q-Park's Irish sites
Online parking reservation provider ParkCloud has expanded its relationship with international parking company Q-Park to include the Irish market. ParkCloud is now offering its pre
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Physical segregation of cyclists is safer than using coloured surfaces
Alex Forrest (Letters LTT 13 Sep) raises the very important issue of segregated cycle tracks. Whilst they do have them in many northern European cities, the cycle track is sometime
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Putting bus data at the heart of an integrated transport system
Hertfordshire County Council is currently in the throes of implementing a highly advanced automatic vehicle location and real-time passenger information system across its bus netwo
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Daventry explores Group Rapid Transit
Daventry District Council is hoping to secure Government funding for the UK’s first driverless group rapid transit (GRT) system. The system would feature electric minibuses,
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Putting the facts right on Bristol’s BRT plan
One of your regular correspondents, Gavin Smith, has made an incorrect statement about the use of Ashton Avenue bridge, that whilst it seems small, needs correction (Letters LTT 12
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Ageing population will bankrupt transport funders and operators
While visiting England, a friend gave me the 5 October edition of Local Transport Today. I read your front page story, 'Public finance pressures loom as elderly make most of free t
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