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High-speed rail will be nothing more than a white elephant

Richard George, of the mis-named ‘Campaign for Better Transport’, needs to remember that my views are free and aren’t paid for by the public transport or motor in

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Costing transport's carbon emissions could boost case for new technologies

The new guidance that requires a money value to be put on the carbon impact of transport projects ('Money value put on the carbon impact of transport schemes' LTT 19 Oct) could pro

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Parking Review
Westminster to revise motorbike fee scheme

Westminster City Council’s controversial motorcycle charging scheme is to be made permanent, but with concessions for motorcyclists. A pilot £1.50 motorcycle charge wa

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Parking Review
Cardiff rolls out parking sensors across city

Smart parking technology is to be rolled out across Cardiff city centre. A combination of bay sensors and ANPR will monitor parking occupancy levels on-street and in car parks. Thi

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Local Transport Today
TfWM sets out programme for area’s Future Mobility Zone

Transport for the West Midlands has listed the innovations it plans to deliver through its Government-funded ‘Future Mobility Zone’. Ministers announced last autumn th

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Job description for walking & cycling czar

London mayor Sadiq Khan’s office has published the job description for the mayor’s walking and cycling commissioner.  The three-day-a-week post will attract a sal

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Local Transport Today
The jury’s out on the impact of new car club models

The emergence of new models of car-sharing (or what we in UK and Ireland uniquely call ‘car clubs’) has suggested a “much needed boost” will be given to car

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Local Transport Today
Liverpool Franchising ‘could take five years’

Introducing bus franchising to the Liverpool City Region is likely to take more than five years, according to Merseytravel. Frank Rogers, the city region’s lead officer for

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Parking Review
The full goods on lorry parking signs

In order to control nuisances caused by the unregulated parking of large vehicles on-street overnight, particularly in residential areas, some authorities have introduced overnight

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Local Transport Today
China builds high-speed railways quickly – why can’t we?

In the last issue is an article titled, “HS2 delivery timetable is crazy, Hodge tells DfT”. When I visited China in 2010 I rode on the 601-mile railway from Guangzhou t

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Parking Review
Moving walkways for Tesco’s 500-bay Durham car park

Tesco has announced plans for a Tesco superstore in County Durham which will feature airport-style ‘moving walkways. The travelators will move shoppers from the 500-space ca

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Parking Review
Canterbury trials Parkeon ticketless parking systems

Canterbury City Council in Kent is trialling ticketless parking using systems developed by Parkeon. The trial sees Canterbury become the first district in the UK to introduce Park

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Parking Review
Glasgow bids to cut city centre traffic

A pilot scheme to cut the number of vehicles driving into the Glasgow city centre by a 1,000 a day is set to start later this year. The measures would remove all metered parking a

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Local Transport Today
Standard speaks out on road traffic problems if Heathrow expands

ON 13 MAY, London’s Evening Standard editorialised not just on the plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport, but on how the road network would cope with expansion. &ldqu

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Local Transport Today
Politicians should abandon cheap bus travel plan for school kids

My heart sank when I read that Roger Jones, the chairman of Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority, is proposing a 50p flat fare for children in education. Firstly, I ha

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Covid scuppers Scots airport sale

The Scottish Government’s efforts to sell Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Ayrshire have been thwarted by Covid-19. Transport cabinet secretary Michael Matheson said the preferre

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Parking Review
Manchester Airport to scrap free ‘kiss & fly’

Manchester Airport is scrapping its free ‘kiss & fly’ drop-off lanes in order to ease traffic congestion. From June drivers will have to pay £3 to stop for f

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Parking Review
McNulty Rail review sees parking as vital revenue stream

Rail station parking is an important revenue stream, and the addition of 10,000 more spaces to the UK rail network could generate another £38m over the next five years, recom

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Parking Review
ParkCloud teams up with FLIO

Airport parking specialist ParkCloud has extended its partner network with the FLIO airport information app.  FLIO works with a range of partners to improve passengers’

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Parking Review
APT SkiData adopts smarter electronic locking systems

Parking system supplier APT SkiData is working with Ez-Assure to provide electronic locks for its pay-on-foot pay stations. Ez-Assure offers a web-based management solution for

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Local Transport Today
A guide through the traffic

Robert Bain is the author of Toll Road Traffic and Revenue Forecasts: An Interpreter’s Guide. “In many toll road deals the revenue forecasts represent the commercial pr

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Local Transport Today
Scotland launches first managed motorway

Scotland’s first system of mandatory variable speed limits will go live on the M90 in Fife next month. Lower mandatory speed limits will operate at times of heavy traffic on

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Local Transport Today
Bus lane removal cuts Newport congestion

Congestion on Newport’s city-centre Old Green roundabout has eased since the controversial removal of an adjoining bus lane, but consultant Capita Symonds warns that this &ld

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Parking Review
BPA receives Investors in People Gold award

The British Parking Association (BPA) has achieved the Investors in People Gold Standard. The BPA has held the IiP Silver Standard since 2013, but decided to aim for the next level

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Local Transport Today
Smartphone app to help drivers hit green

A smartphone app could advise drivers what speed to drive at to receive a green light at the next signalised junction. West Midlands Combined Authority is commissioning an app dev

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Local Transport Today
Taxpayer gets less than one third back in Eurostar sale

Sale of the government's 40% stake in Eurostar for £757.1m in March represented value for money and was well managed according to the National Audit Office. But the NAO also

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Local Transport Today
Chiltern Railways doubles passengers

Chiltern Railways has announced that it is now carrying twice as many passengers compared to when the company was privatised. The train operator has invested over £100m in im

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Parking Review
Standard Life buys Sheffield multi-storey

Standard Life has bought the Q-Park Rockingham Street car park in Sheffield. This is a still unusual example of an institutional investor acquiring a standalone car park as opposed

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Parking Review
Ashton-under-Lyne suspends phone parking after complaints from traders

A phone parking payment system introduced in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, at the end of last year has been suspended after traders complained it was affecting business. T

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Parking Review
Park Assist promotes Scot Dubois

Parking technology company Park Assist has appointed Scot Dubois as general manager for its Australian operation, which covers the Asia Pacific region. He is taking over from Danie

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Local Transport Today
Stop treating road deaths as inevitable, Cox tells MPs

Detective chief superintendent Andy Cox is pressing MPs to sign up to measures to improve road safety. Cox is head of crime at Lincolnshire Police and is the national lead for fata

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Parking Review
TomTom links up with Truck Parking Europe app

Truck Parking Europe, an app that shows lorry drivers the location of parking sites, has teamed up with satellite navigation provider TomTom. HGV drivers need to comply with resti

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Local Transport Today
Euston rebuild '£2bn above budget'

Proposals drawn up by Network Rail and HS2 Ltd for a comprehensive rebuild of?London’s Euston station as part of the Government’s high-speed rail plans would have coste

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Parking Review
Holiday permit goes mobile in Bournemouth

Bournemouth Borough Council is the first local authority in the UK to enable visitors to pay for all of their holiday parking with a single phone call. The RingGo parking permits

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Local Transport Today
Laurencekirk station, Aberdeenshire

Galliford Try has been appointed by Network Rail to carry out rebuilding and refurbishment work needed to re-open Laurencekirk station. The original station, on the line between Mo

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EVolution
Be.EV to create charging hub at the Telford Centre

Be.EV is investing £1m to create a charging hub at Telford Centre in Shropshire. The chargepoint operator will fully fund the installation and maintenance of 18 ultra-fast 30

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Local Transport Today
Cycling masterplans for Northern Ireland’s towns

The Northern Ireland Executive is planning to develop cycling masterplans for urban areas, starting with Belfast.  The masterplans will identify proposals for new infrastruct

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Parking Review
Cost of Devon parking permits rises

Devon County Council has revealed plans to increase the price of parking permits for the first time in seven years. Residential permits in Devon have not increased since 2015 and

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Local Transport Today
Act to halt bus decline

In recent weeks there has been a steady flow of stories about local authorities planning significant cuts to tendered bus networks. Somerset, Hertfordshire, North Yorkshire and Cen

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Local Transport Today
Five bidders for Gloucs highways

Gloucestershire County Council has invited five firms to bid for its highways term maintenance contract: Balfour Beatty, Griffiths, Ringway, Skanska, and Volker Highways. Tenders w

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Local Transport Today
Mixed fortunes for speed cameras

The impact of funding cuts on speed camera operations in England has been revealed in a new survey by the RAC Foundation. The Foundation made Freedom of Information requests to th

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Parking Review
Russell Roberts is Stoke-on-Trent's parking enforcement manager

Russell Roberts has become parking enforcement manager for Stoke-on-Trent City Council.  He assumed the position in March after spending over five years with APCOA Parking (U

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Parking Review
Getting a grip

Peter Cowlard and Cliff Weston outline the benefits of liquid-applied waterproofing systems Car parks with suspended decks need good protection from the adverse effects of corrosi

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Parking Review
Let’s have informed decisions on the code

In debates surrounding the passage of Sir Greg Knight’s Parking (Code of Practice) Bill through Parliament, the exchanges in Parliament were mostly positive, but the focus on

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Local Transport Today
£6bn for local transport and roads over four years

The Department for Transport has announced that it will "continue to prioritise highways maintenance" with £3bn over four years as part of a £6bn investment i

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Local Transport Today
Rail the winner and HA the loser in coalition’s budget decisions

Rail has been the big winner and the Highways Agency the loser from transport spending decisions made by the coalition Government, according to a new analysis. PTE umbrella body

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Local Transport Today
M6 Expressway scheme criticised

The Government's proposal to build a tolled Expressway alongside the existing M6 motorway between junctions 11a and 19 through Staffordshire and Cheshire is unlikely to deliver lon

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Parking Review
Liverpool City Council creates new cabinet post to focus on pavement parking

Councillors voted to create the new cabinet position to tackle the problems with pavement parking and issues around disabled access around Liverpool. The Inclusive and Accessible

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Parking Review
Bike spaces at palace turned into ministerial bays

Bicycle parking spaces at the Palace of Westminster have been scrapped to make more room for ministerial cars. Covered bicycle racks in the Star Chamber Courtyard have been remove

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Local Transport Today
Scots get multi-modal user body

The Scottish Executive is to create a multi-modal public transport users committee to improve passenger representation. Consultation on the statutory body will take place this aut

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