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Give mayor say over airport rail services says TfL but ATOC resists fares remit

Transport for London is lobbying the Government to give it responsibilities for rail services over a larger area of the wider South East than proposed by ministers. The DfT launch

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Making reviews of TMA evidence easier

Software has been developed by Imperial Civil Enforcement Solutions (ICES) in partnership with Systems Engineering and Assessment (SEA) to review and process enforcement offences i

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Parking Review
A tender for all our needs

Changes in local authority tendering processes may be inevitable now that many councils are actively collaborating and planning to ‘merge’ services. Government directiv

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Nortech to launch new products at Parkex

People and vehicle access control specialist Nortech will be exhibiting at Parkex 2019. The South Wales-based company will be launching its 8 Series detector range, debuting its ne

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Local Transport Today
WM design charter aims for quality transport infrastructure

An initiative to promote, inspire and encourage good design has been launched across the West Midlands. The West Midlands Design Charter, developed by the West Midlands Combin

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Westminster awarded £7m to re-introduce 2-way traffic on Piccadilly

London mayor Boris Johnson has awarded Westminster City Council £7m for a scheme to reintroduce two-way traffic on Piccadilly, St James and Pall Mall and declutter the area b

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Parking Review
APCOA's Maidstone CPE contract extended

APCOA Parking (UK) has secured an extension to its five-year enforcement contract with Maidstone Borough Council. The contract was due to be re-tendered this year, but the council

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Local Transport Today
Kapsch wins traffic contract from HE

Highways England has awarded a contract to Austrian-based firm Kapsch TrafficCom AG to install its dynamic traffic management system, DYNAC, at the HE’s regional traffic cont

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Derry’s new transport hub a ‘catalyst for development’

Construction work has started on a new transport hub in Derry which will serve as a “gateway” to Northern Ireland’s north-west. The plans involve the restoration

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WYCA suggests fewer but longer trains

Fewer, but longer, passenger trains may be the way to improve service punctuality on some routes in the north of England, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority has suggested. 

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Local Transport Today
Henkel is TfN’s smart travel chief

John Henkel has been appointed executive sponsor for integrated and smart travel at Transport for the North. He was director of passenger services at the West Yorkshire Combined Au

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Local Transport Today
Johnson announces team to take forward Thames estuary airport plan

London mayor Boris Johnson has appointed the Government’s former chief scientific adviser Sir David King to head a team to investigate building a new international airport in

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Local Transport Today
Newcastle chooses Neuron for e-scooters

Newcastle City Council has chosen Neuron Mobility to deliver an e-scooter rental service in the city.  The scheme will initially feature 250 e-scooters but Neuron says number

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Birmingham Airport expansion plans

Birmingham Airport is exploring expansion options to tie in with the Government’s plans for a station serving the airport on the London to Birmingham high-speed line. The air

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Parking Review
Parking Partnership Award: London Borough of Waltham Forest, NSL and BBFi Public Sector Investigations

For the past decade the London Borough of Waltham Forest has engaged the services of BBFi Public Sector Investigations through its outsourced services provider NSL. The objective o

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The TMA challenge

Deniz Huseyin: What impact will the TMA have on how on-street parking enforcement is carried out? Barry Nelms: We are now only two or so months into the TMA and it is still diffic

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Local Transport Today
Transport Appraisal

Transport project appraisal has undergone significant change in the last couple of years: economic impact reports have been introduced to assess the number of additional jobs creat

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Gtr Manchester identifies new transport priorities

Road schemes feature prominently in Greater Manchester’s major transport scheme priorities from 2015 16, which have just been submitted to ministers. Greater Manchester has

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Parking Review
Harrow invests in CCTV van

The London Borough of Harrow has invested £20,000 in a CCTV-equipped van which will be used to enforce parking restrictions. The van has two cameras, one of which can be ext

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Local Transport Today
CO2 has ‘little impact on travel patterns’

Climate change fears have  little impact on people’s travel choices, researchers have told the DfT. “CO2 emissions were found to be of very low importance in deter

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Thousands of motorists ignoring Mini-Holland traffic ban

More than 15,000 fines have been issued to motorists who have flouted a traffic ban on a route in Waltham Forest over the past year. The Orford Road scheme in the Walthamstow Vill

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Local Transport Today
Bus powers for South Yorks mayor

The Sheffield city region looks set to adopt an elected mayor model of governance, with the mayor holding bus franchising powers and controlling the area’s transport budget.&

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Assembly rejects Bill proposal to ban pedicabs from capital's bus lanes

The London Assembly's transport committee has called for pedicabs - or rickshaws - to be licensed but rejected plans to ban them from bus lanes. There are an estimated 250 pedicab

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Local Transport Today
Optimism that transport planning skills shortage need not resurface

Over the past few months, transport planning consultancies have been caught in a perfect storm. Local authorities put an almost total freeze on commissioning work prior to the spen

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‘Give London fiscal freedoms to deliver transport infrastructure’

London’s government should have more power over tax and more freedom to borrow to ensure the capital’s transport infrastructure can keep pace with growing demand, the f

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Parking Review
Parking permit system for Leicestershire school

A permit scheme will enable parents to use a council car park during the school run instead of parking on-street near a school in Leicestershire. Harborough District Council is in

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Local Transport Today
‘London lorry’ could find way round curfews

Transport for London and London Councils are considering drawing up specifications to exempt some lorries from the capital’s lorry control scheme – the so-called London

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Parking Review
British Parking Awards finalists revealed

The finalists of the British Parking Awards 2016 have been revealed by Parking Review magazine, which has organised the competition since 2002.  To see the list click here T

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Local Transport Today
Heathrow mulls legal challenge on Crossrail

Heathrow Airport Ltd may seek a judicial review of the Office and Rail and Road’s ruling that HAL cannot charge Crossrail trains serving the airport for the historic cost of

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New lines would smooth Brighton Main Line upgrade

I read the article in LTT about the Brighton Mainline (BML) with interest (‘No case for a new London to Brighton rail corridor, says DfT’ LTT 17 Mar). It is crucial th

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Parking Review
PATROL PARC Awards shortlist announced

The shortlist for this year’s Parking Annual Reports by Councils (PARC) Awards has been announced. The PARC Awards recognise annual reports on local authority parking servic

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Local Transport Today
LEPs keep options open on STB

THE SOUTH East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership (SEMLEP) and the Northamptonshire Enterprise Partnership are to remain involved for the time being in two bodies with aspiratio

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Bosch launches connected mobility services division

German technology group Bosch has launched a new Connected Mobility Solutions division. Bosch Connected Mobility Solutions will bring together over 600 people from across the group

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Local Transport Today
Towards a new Future of Mobility – understanding key trends

Last month, the Governement launched the first stages of its Future of Mobility Grand Challenge, declaring that the UK is on the cusp of 'a profound change in how we move people, g

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Local Transport Today
Cyclists and safety cameras dominate road death debate

The national daily press split sharply into two camps when reporting the Government's latest statistics on road traffic accidents. One group, including The Guardian, The Independen

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Local Transport Today
‘Green’ HGV initiative launched

The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership has launched a new initiative to find low carbon technologies for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs). The HGV challenge is open to products or systems t

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Local Transport Today
Law upholds motorbike charges

The High Court has ruled that Westminster City Council’s motorcycle parking charge policy is legal, following a challenge by motorcycle groups. The British Motorcyclists Fede

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Parking Review
New Blue Badge “as secure as a banknote,” says Baker

The new look Blue Badge, which went live today, is harder to forge, claims transport minister Norman Baker. Previously, Blue Badges were made from card and handwritten but from now

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Parking Review
£1.5m refurbishment for Blackpool mall

The 750-space multi-storey car park serving the Houndshill shopping centre in Blackpool, Lancashire, is being refurbished at a cost of £1.5m. The 22-year-old car park is bei

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Local Transport Today
Cardiff & Caerphilly must revisit CAZs

The Welsh Government has ordered Cardiff and Caerphilly Councils to conduct more analysis on their clean air plans, including further investigations of charging clean air zones.&nb

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DfT’s public transport ticketing vision ‘undeliverable’ say bus firms

Bus operators have voiced scepticism about the DfT’s draft ticketing strategy that aims to promote ‘smart’ ticketing media such as smartcards, mobile phones, and

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PCN fall in London due to recession and rise of CCTV

A 22% drop in penalty charge notices (PCNs) issued in London over the past two years is due to the response by councils to “public concern about over-zealous enforcement&rdqu

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Local Transport Today
Smartcard ticketing research outlined

Research on smartcard ticketing is one of the topics outlined in a new report explaining the DfT’s transport technology and standards research programme. Projects include add

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Parking Review
Palace Gardens is now a grand car park

The Palace Gardens multi-storey car park in Enfield, north London, has undergone a facelift. The main scope of works was the replacement of waterproof structural movement joints on

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Local Transport Today
Drastic curbs on rural mobility set out in vision of low CO2 society

An extraordinary vision of a mobility-constrained future for rural communities has been painted in a report looking at how tough carbon dioxide reduction targets could affect rural

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Local Transport Today
Correction

The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership has asked us to point out that all papers for its meetings are available to the public via its website, contrary to what was implie

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Brighton invests in bus lane CCTV

Brighton and Hove City Council is to increase CCTV enforcement of bus lanes. The council currently has three cameras but a further 21 are to be purchased using £267,750 from

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In Passing

President Obama’s vision of a nation criss-crossed with high-speed rail lines disintegrated long ago. But one part of his grand plan is still alive – the proposal for a

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Local Transport Today
UK transport performance underwhelms as European innovation moves south and east

The UK languishes in the middle or bottom of EU league tables of transport innovation apart from on the topic of road safety, where it has edged ahead of the Netherlands. The

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Parking Review
John Sergeant steps up to host parking awards

Top political correspondent and, following Strictly Come Dancing, national treasure John Sergeant will be the host of this year’s British Parking Awards ceremony. The present

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