King's Birthday Honours: Industry leaders secure gongs
16/06/2025
Key figures in the transport, highways and engineering world were recognised alongside Sir David Beckham in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours.
17/06/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) response to the Access denied: rights versus reality in disabled people's access to transport report ‘lacks urgency’ according to the Transport Select Committee.
17/06/2025
Highway Care has unveiled a second, smaller, more agile Falcon Automated Cone Laying Machine (ACLM) model following feedback from local authorities.
17/06/2025
Brightly Software has been awarded a £8m contract for Operational Asset Works Management Systems (OAWMS) solution by National Highways.
17/06/2025
A new £1bn Structures Fund has been created to ‘enhance and repair’ run down transport infrastructure in the UK, including £590m for the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC).
17/06/2025
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has announced a £2.5bn Transport Professional Services (TPS) Framework that will be used deliver the next stage of the Bee Network.
17/06/2025
The Local Government Technical Advisers Group (LGTAG) and the National Highways and Transportation (NHT) Network have signed a new strategic partnership.
16/06/2025
The Government has pledged £7.9bn for flood defences over the next 10 years, in what it claims is the 'largest flooding defence programme' in UK history.
13/06/2025
The Court of Appeal has ruled that £200m worth of cuts to active travel made in March 2023 were unlawful.
13/06/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has announced that the 'ageing Gallows Corner flyover' in Romford will close from 23 June until September for the second phase of vital repair works.
13/06/2025
Transport Scotland has announced a £400,000 skills fund to prepare workforces for the switch to zero emission heavy duty vehicles (HDVs).
13/06/2025
The first trials of autonomous taxi and bus services without a safety driver will be fast-tracked, the Government has said.
11/06/2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a £39bn investment in social and affordable housing over the next 10 years in the Government’s Spending Review.
11/06/2025
Health, defence and schools were the big winners in the spending review, but the government claimed it would put local government back on ‘a sustainable footing’.
12/06/2025
National Highways and English local roads authorities have secured a long-term capital funding settlement of £24bn between 2026-27 and 2029-30, the chancellor announced in her Spending Review.
11/06/2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced £2bn in funding to support the Government’s artificial intelligence (AI) action plan in her Spending Review speech.
11/06/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced a new action plan for artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in transport.
13/06/2025
Street cleansing and grounds maintenance in the former Mendip District Council area has been integrated into Somerset Council’s operations.
13/06/2025
The Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) has been joined by Mabey Hire via a new corporate membership.
13/06/2025
Transport Scotland has announced further traffic diversions for the ongoing ground investigation works along the A83 Rest and Be Thankful.
13/06/2025
An analysis of transport spending per person per year has found the North lost out on £140bn or more between 2009/10 and 2022/23 compared to North London.
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