Some of the UK’s top fleet electrification companies have joined forces to create ScotCharge, a new consortium focused on accelerating the decarbonisation of Scotland’s heavy goods vehicle (HGV) sector. Supported by Transport Scotland through its £2 million HGV Market Readiness Fund, Dynamon , Fleete Group , and VEV will jointly develop a roadmap for transitioning Scotland’s 36,500-strong truck fleet to electric power. The three lead consortium members received funding in Se

Greater Manchester has unveiled the country’s first inclusive cycling network, designed to make active travel accessible to everyone—including people with disabilities, long-term health conditions, and diverse needs. The network, with centres across all boroughs, provides safe and supportive spaces for people to try a variety of cycles, focusing on enjoyment, confidence-building, and wellbeing. Supervised sessions are held at parks and sports centres, and participants can acc

The London Underground of the future could look very different from the network we know in 2025, with proposals emerging for fully driverless trains that would eliminate the need for human operators. Reform UK’s sole London Assembly Member, Alex Wilson, told the Express that his party plans to pursue “progressive automation of Tube lines” over time. Several lines, including the Victoria, Jubilee, Central, Northern, District, Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan, alre

A dummy speed camera that had been helping to calm traffic in south-east London has been taken down by the local authority. According to the Daily Telegraph , the imitation camera appeared on Sandhurst Road in Catford earlier this week after residents raised concerns about dangerous driving and repeated collisions. The identity of whoever installed it remains unknown, but locals quickly labelled the individual a “hero” after noticing that motorists immediately began slowing d

The government body responsible for planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining England’s motorways and major A-roads has agreed a long-term lease on premises at Priory Court .The two-storey office building—totalling 15,267 sq ft—serves as a headquarters-style facility within Priory Business Park. Set on a self-contained 1.4-acre plot, the site offers landscaped surroundings and a private car park with 78 spaces. National Highways is relocating from its form

Cumberland Council is highlighting how the Carlisle Southern Link Road (CSLR) is delivering not only a vital new transport route for vehicles, but also major new facilities for people walking, wheeling and cycling. The Carlisle Southern Link Road is Cumberland’s largest ever infrastructure investment, and it has been designed to help everyone move more safely and sustainably for many years to come. The 8km shared use path that follows the route and will connect Carlton and Cu

Road casualties in Norfolk have risen by more than anywhere else in the country, according to a road safety charity. Brake analysed the latest Department for Transport (DfT) annual data and found the number of people killed or seriously injured in Norfolk rose from 470 in 2023 to 555 last year. This compared with a slight decrease across the the East of England as a whole, where 2,725 people were killed or seriously injured on roads in 2024 – down 1.9% on 2023, the charity sa

A councillor has warned a "road to nowhere" is being planned in Didcot. Oxfordshire County Council wants to start construction of the northern section of a perimeter road in the town, known as NPR3, next summer. But without the southern section, which it is relying on developer Bloor Homes to deliver as part of planning conditions, the road will end abruptly at the edge of a housing estate. Bloor Homes said it was "committed" to delivering the full Ladygrove East development,

To mark the start of Road Safety Week (16–22 November 2025), the annual campaign led by road safety charity Brake, WJ Group (WJ) is highlighting how a combination of safer vehicle design, journey planning and culture can work together to reduce deaths and serious injuries on the road network.   Brake cites that more than a third of UK road deaths involve someone who was driving for work [1] . It is using this year’s theme, ‘safe vehicles save lives’ , to explore how modern fl

Standard road lanes are unsafe for cyclists, and they should be either widened or narrowed, new government guidance has said. In the past, road lanes have typically been 3.65m (12 ft), but analysis has shown that this raises the risk of collisions if cars try to overtake bikes. A document published last week says that lanes should now be either narrower than 3.25m (10ft 8in) wide or wider than 3.9m (12ft 10in). This is because in narrow lanes, drivers are more likely to real

It’s a monumental task undertaken every year, vital to ensuring that North Yorkshire remains on the move. Our annual winter roads maintenance programme has now been launched, as our dedicated highways teams work to keep thousands of miles of roads across England’s largest county open and safe over the coming months. We have an annual gritting budget of more than £8 million and the 5,753 miles of roads that we are responsible for are the equivalent distance from Northallerton

Half of the work on a £1bn road improvement project is being taken up with improving one busy roundabout, National Highways has said. Work on a 10-mile (16km) dual carriageway, between the Black Cat roundabout in Bedfordshire and Caxton Gibbet in Cambridgeshire, began in December 2023 and is expected to be completed in the spring of 2027. Paul Salmon, senior project manager for National Highways, said that "building such a complex three tier junction" at the Black Cat roundab

Winvic Construction Ltd, a leading main contractor that specialises in the design and delivery of private and public sector construction and civil engineering projects, has announced the successful completion of its fourth scheme under the Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) highways framework. The Carholme Road and A46/A57 Roundabout project in Lincoln marks another milestone in Winvic’s ongoing partnership with LCC to deliver essential highways improvements across the county.

With Road Safety Week approaching, National Highways has launched a renewed push to help drivers understand the dashboard warning lights in their vehicles and the actions they should take when they appear. The campaign is part of the organisation’s wider work to reduce preventable breakdowns and stop-outs on the strategic road network. National Highways says many incidents could be avoided if drivers recognised warning symbols earlier and responded appropriately, rather than

Taller ticket barriers, dedicated fare evasion teams in stations and the creation of a taskforce would reduce fare dodging on Transport for London (TfL) services, City Hall Conservatives have claimed. The number of prosecutions for fare evasion on the Tube reached their highest level for six years in 2023-24, figures obtained by the BBC show . Thomas Turrell, Conservative transport spokesman, said the mayor of London "continues to pay lip service to the problem in spite of th

National Highways is taking a significant first step towards improving safety along the A38 Plymouth Parkway by reducing the speed limit from 70mph to 60mph. The A38 Parkway speed reduction scheme follows a safety review which revealed that the collision rate is double the national average – the latest validated collision data identified a total of 157 collisions on the A38 Parkway, resulting in 226 injuries between 2020 and 2024. After announcing the proposed speed reduction