RAC Foundation appoints new chair06/05/2020 The RAC Foundation has announced that Neville Jackson – former chief technology and innovation officer at the consultancy Ricardo PLC - has taken over as its chair from Joe Greenwell CBE. |
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. |
RAC Foundation making progress on collision investigation branch27/11/2018 The RAC Foundation is making progress on the Department for Transport sponsored Road Collision Investigation Project, with the police forces involved, and their allocations from the £480,000 government grant, due to be finalised in early 2019. |
Comment: 1,792 people deserve action18/06/2018 Former director of the Department for Transport and current director of the RAC Foundation, Steve Gooding, talks about life’s hardest lessons. |
Crash investigation teams to be trialled13/06/2018 The Government has announced a three-year trial under which dedicated investigation teams will be deployed to UK roads to analyse the cause of road collisions. |
Cutting ribbons on old roads23/03/2018 Steve Gooding, former director at the Department for Transport and current director of the RAC Foundation, argues that highway maintenance still does not get the support it deserves. |
More than 3,000 British road bridges substandard - RAC Foundation10/03/2017 More than 3,000 council-maintained road bridges in Great Britain are substandard, according to research by the RAC Foundation. |
Learner drivers to take lessons on motorways under new proposals03/01/2017 Transport Minister Andrew Jones has set out plans to allow learner drivers to have driving lessons on motorways before passing their test. |
£756m surplus from council parking13/12/2016 Westminster had the largest parking surplus in 2015/16 of £55.9 million with the amount of money left over from council parking operations during this period reaching a record high of £756m. |
Study shows pothole compensation claim made every 17 minutes13/10/2016 A study carried out by the RAC Foundation shows that drivers made at least 31,483 claims against councils for vehicle damage caused by poor road conditions in the last financial year. |
Over 4,000 miles of road have no mobile coverage02/12/2015 Almost 4,600 miles of British roads have no mobile phone coverage, according to research carried out by the RAC Foundation. |
Local road spending at lowest level for a decade24/11/2015 Capital spending on local roads in England is at its lowest level for well over a decade. |
RAC Foundation reveals pothole compensation claims29/09/2015 Drivers made a pothole compensation claim every 18 minutes during the last financial year, according to information released by the RAC Foundation. |
RAC calls for road safety targets21/09/2015 New casualty reduction targets need to be introduced if the recent increase in people being hurt on the roads is not to be repeated, according to the RAC Foundation. |
RAC and PACTS report shows varied road casualty rates26/05/2015 Progress made in cutting death and injury on roads across the UK has varied dramatically over the past five years, according to a report carried out by the RAC Foundation and the Parliamentary Advisory Committee for Transport Safety (PACTS). |
Gooding to lead RAC Foundation05/03/2015 Steve Gooding has been appointed as the new director of the RAC Foundation. |
Pothole claims reach £270,000 in the south east04/03/2015 Three councils in the south east paid out more in compensation for pothole damage in 2013/14 compared to 2012/13. |
RAC Foundation: Motorists could reclaim ‘millions’ in illegal parking fines23/02/2015 Motorists could be entitled to tens of millions of pounds in refunds after the RAC Foundation discovered that thousands of drivers are likely to have been illegally penalised for parking too long on private land. |
Pothole claims reach £3.2m26/01/2015 UK motorists claimed more than £3 million compensation for pothole damage last year, according to a survey carried out by the RAC Foundation. |
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