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"Highways England has been working to address the risks to deliverability, affordability and value for money that were present in 2015"

Strategic roads plan at risk of failure

Opinion

"Automated vehicles could make our roads even safer and easier to use"

Efforts needed to support driverless cars

Opinion

"This latest allocation from the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) comes alongside details of a number of local projects that have already secured Government support."

Budget supports local transport projects

Opinion

"High Speed 2 will also help to better integrate other parts of the UK’s transport network."

Royal Assent granted for High Speed 2

Opinion

"At present only a third of Londoners achieve the 20 minute walking or cycling target on any given day."

London appoints cycling and walking tsar

Opinion

"Alasdair previously worked for Network Rail as the route managing director for its South East region and has more than 30 years’ experience of planning, designing, managing and implementing infrastructure schemes."

Engineering Council appoints new head

Opinion

"Signatures are being sought for an online petition calling on the Government to divert 2p a litre from fuel duty towards repairing potholes on local roads"

Petition calls for extra pothole funding

The petition was lodged earlier this week on the Parliamentary website by the Road Surface Treatments Association

Opinion

"This latest phase of the work means that we are getting closer to completion and we are confident that we will reopen the line on 31 March"

Steam services celebrate rail reopening

Rail passengers in North West England boarded the first scheduled service to be pulled by a steam locomotive in nearly half a century

Opinion

"The figures are heading in the wrong direction"

Significant rise in serious road casualties

Opinion

Such a development would make use of a £450M trial of new signalling technology

Autonomous train vision gathers pace

Opinion

"Motoring has become relatively cheaper over the years and public transport – the transport we want to encourage – is becoming increasingly expensive,"

Mobility tax proposed to reduce carbon

Opinion

"The event, supported by Tripod Crest and Fusion, takes place at the Park Plaza Victoria hotel in London"

Expectation builds ahead of Conference

Opinion

"Chesham & Amersham MP Cheryl Gillan had earlier asked the Transport Secretary what recent estimate he had made of the cost to date of High Speed 2"

MPs demand High Speed 2 cost certainty

Opinion

"The train left Yiwu in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejang on New Year’s Day loaded with textiles and consumer goods."

Chinese freight train arrives into Barking

Opinion

"The Local Government Association (LGA) said that the total cost of repairing English and Welsh local roads is expected to rise from £11.8Bn last year to £14Bn by 2019 unless urgent action is taken."

Extra local roads funding demanded

Opinion

"We don’t take enough account of the urban development benefits you get (from trams) and should be looking more favourably at urban rail transport."

Trams need a push, inquiry hears

Opinion

"Senior highways and transportation professionals have been celebrated in the New Year’s Honours list"

Sector recognised with New Year Honours

Opinion

"I believe that with improved collaboration we can deliver truly world class transport infrastructure and services"

Collaboration urged at CIHT Luncheon

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"Proposals for the junction are subject to committee approval at the Corporation, which is due later this month"

Bank junction set for traffic ban

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