Smart motorway death toll is shock to the system
27/01/2020
The Government has told BBC's Panorama that 38 people have been killed on smart motorways over the last five years.
Older drivers 'should be helped, not tested'27/01/2020 The RAC Foundation has called for older drivers to be offered higher levels of in-car technology rather any system of mass retesting. |
The sense of a road ending27/01/2020 Former director at the Department for Transport and current RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding discusses when and how we should hang up the keys. |
Council slams Highways England over A47 delays27/01/2020 Norfolk County Council has called for Highways England to be held to account for the ‘agonisingly slow’ progress on improvements to the A47. |
Stoke stays with Galliford Try for £16m minor works24/01/2020 Galliford Try has been reappointed by Stoke-on-Trent City Council as the sole contractor on its framework for minor work, worth a total of £16m over the four-year term. |
UK Export Finance gives Colas £36m backing in Gabon23/01/2020 The UK’s export credit agency, UK Export Finance, will provide £36.2m in guarantees and loans to support Colas in a project to upgrade roads in Gabon. |
SISK scoops £8m job for 200-hectare housing scheme24/01/2020 Homes England has appointed John Sisk & Son Ltd to carry out the £8m contract to design and build a new bridge and link road at the Northern Arc development in Mid Sussex. |
Shapps cuts ribbon on 'congestion busting' transport centre23/01/2020 The transport secretary has launched the West Midlands’ Regional Transport Coordination Centre, which will bring real-time information across all modes of transport together into one place. |
Widow to launch legal challenge over all lane running23/01/2020 The widow of a driver killed on a Smart Motorway has instructed lawyers to begin work on a legal challenge calling for them to be scrapped. |
Local road staffing in Scotland falls by 20%23/01/2020 A national survey of local authority roads staff in Scotland has found numbers dropped by some 20% in the last three years, with around half of the heads of department moving jobs. |
Scotland to launch national road worker training programme23/01/2020 The national Scottish Roads Training Programme is set to be launched on 29 January with the ambition of re-engineering how road operatives are qualified and how training programmes are procured. |
Cardiff moots congestion charge to help fund £2bn transport plan23/01/2020 Non-residents could be charged £2 a day to drive into Cardiff after the city council unveiled a £2bn vision to transform the transport network in the city and South East Wales. |
UK Export Finance gives Colas £36m backing in Gabon
Highways England to develop automated cone laying machines
Widow to launch legal challenge over all lane running
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