Whitehall funds for training, housing and transport are to be devolved into single cash pots for Local Enterprise Partnerships, ministers announced today in their response to the Heseltine growth...
The High Court today threw out nine of the ten objections to the planned High Speed 2 rail line, but ruled that the government consultation on compensation was unfair.
The government should abolish the Highways Agency and devolve its funding to councils and other local bodies, a report commissioned by the Local Government Association has concluded.
Plans to fund the construction of trains for the new Crossrail line in London using private sector funding have been scrapped after it was decided that the carriages would be paid for in full by...
The botched award of the West Coast rail franchise and subsequent scrapping of the deal will cost taxpayers at least £50m in extra fees, the Public Accounts Committee has revealed.
Plans to give councils greater control of local transport spending could weaken transparency and accountability for public money, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has today announced plans to quicken construction of the £32.7bn high-speed rail line linking London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
Network Rail has published plans to cut government support for railways by least £1bn a year by March 2019 but warned this could be at the expense of some improvements.
Campaigners have urged the government to end the annual above-inflation hike in rail fares after it was revealed that the price of many season tickets has soared by 50% in a decade.
The government’s plans for public spending cuts over the next five years are beginning to look ‘close to inconceivable’, with further tax rises or benefits cuts likely, the Institute for Fiscal...
Virgin Trains’ contract to run services on the West Coast mainline has been extended until November 2014, following the scrapping of the original award to rival operator First Group.
England’s road network will be improved under Chancellor George Osborne’s plans for a ‘revolution’ in Britain’s infrastructure, but he has been criticised for cutting departmental spending to pay for...
Business bosses have urged Chancellor George Osborne to boost capital spending in tomorrow’s Autumn Statement by unlocking private investment and reallocating government spending towards...
A contract signed today between the Scottish Government and Network Rail will reconnect the Scottish Borders to the rail network, more than 40 years after the Beeching cuts left it the only mainland...
The Department for Transport made a number of ‘significant errors’ when it awarded the West Coast Main Line franchise to First Group, according to an independent review of the decision to scrap the...
Virgin Trains is set to continue running trains on the West Coast mainline for at least another nine months following the government’s decision to scrap the deal awarding the line to rival operator...
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin today gave the green light to 57 road improvement schemes in England, which he said would provide economic benefits worth £3bn.
Private companies should take over the maintenance and improvement of major roads in England to ‘overcome the funding gaps’ that are restricting improvements to the ‘creaking’ road network, the CBI...
The UK government might have avoided the West Coast rail franchise debacle had it been prepared to involve Holyrood in the process, Scotland’s transport minister told MSPs this afternoon.
