Transport ministers will urge the Treasury to provide councils with longer-term funding in the next Spending Review to deal with the huge number of potholes on local roads.
The Scottish Government is to pilot raising a levy on exhaust pollution from heavy vehicles, as part of a renewed drive to meet long-term C02 emissions reduction targets.
Local authorities are demanding extra powers to charge utility companies for digging up roads in order to tackle the “traffic chaos” caused by these works across the country.
Scottish transport minister Humza Yousaf is to meet council leaders to push for better co-ordination in road maintenance after Audit Scotland found a third of council-maintained roads and an eighth...
Allocations for 2016/17 from the £50m Pothole Action Fund, intended to repair nearly 1 million potholes across the country over the next 12 months, have been announced.
The total repair backlog on the local road network in England and Wales fell slightly in the last year, but still stands at £11.8bn according to the annual survey of local authorities.
Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced plans to expand the current charging regime for overrunning roadworks to fine councils and utility companies if sites are left in place over the...
Milton Keynes’ ambitious plan for growth is leading to the development of new ways to use data so transport and other key networks can cope with increased demand
The Local Government Association has warned today that the condition of local roads could continue to deteriorate unless the government provides additional resources for maintenance.
Campaigners have called for a government-backed road scheme in Norfolk to be scrapped after it was confirmed that the cost had increased by one-fifth to £180m.
Local transport infrastructure is in line to take a large proportion of government cuts in the forthcoming Spending Review because funding for national road and rail networks is essentially...
Councils have called for part of the revenue from fuel duty to be given to local authorities so it can be used to quicken the pace of road repairs and avoid a crisis in the state of local...
