Councils in England generated a surplus of nearly £600m from parking charges in 2012/13, up 5% from the year before, according to a report published today
The government’s airport commission has selected expansion of Heathrow or Gatwick airport as the best way to provide additional runway capacity in the Southeast of England, but has not ruled out...
Network Rail, the state-owned operator of Britain's railways, is to be reclassified as a central government body, adding £30bn to the national debt, the Office for National Statistics has announced.
The proposed High Speed 2 rail line linking London with the Midlands and north of England is needed to provide a long-term increase in the capacity on the railway network across the country, the...
The Treasury has doubled its target for receipts from the government’s privatisation programme to £20bn by 2020, with the taxpayer stake in Eurostar among the assets now likely to be sold
Almost 10,000 jobs will be supported by the government’s investment in road building and improvement next year, the Department for Transport has announced today.
The government has issued a call for evidence on its plan to introduce a rebate on fuel duty in rural areas of England and Scotland, ahead of an application to the European Commission for approval.
There are signs of recovery all around, from GDP growth figures to rising house prices. So has the chancellor, as he claims, won the austerity debate, or is short-termism and poor policy-making...
A revised government analysis of the proposed High Speed 2 rail line has slightly downgraded the economic benefits of the route, but has also concluded Britain cannot meet its future transport needs...
MPs have urged the government to develop a long-term investment plan for transport projects to avoid a repeat of the nearly 30-year wait for the Thameslink upgrade.
Transport ministers have urged councils in England to stop using painted yellow lines to restrict parking and instead use signs to tell motorists where they can and cannot leave their cars.
Councils should be banned from using closed-circuit television, such as so-called ‘spy cars’, for parking enforcement, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said today.
The coalition's infrastructure plan is said to be the biggest programme of public works since the Victorian era. The only issue is getting it off the drawing board, says Mark Hellowell
Shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle has cast further doubt on Labour’s backing for the proposed High Speed 2 rail line, saying the project’s value for money needed to be clear
A series of infrastructure projects intended to boost economic growth have been given the go-ahead in Preston after the city agreed the first of the second round of City Deals with government...
The government is yet to make a ‘convincing’ case that the high-speed rail line proposed between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds is the best way to spend public money on transport schemes,...
The HS2 Growth Taskforce today holds the first of its regional roadshows in the West Midlands. The group has been formed by the Department for Transport with the aim of devising ways to increase the...
A new system for proposing and approving major projects should be introduced to provide long-term plans for infrastructure, as the country is ‘increasingly struggling to cope’, an expert commissioned...
The Department or Transport has rebuffed a series of calls for national measures to encourage cycling, arguing that doing so would conflict with localism.
