High Speed 2 rail chief Sir David Higgins has raised the prospect of increased private investment in the UK’s transport system, as part of a 30-year government plan to develop economically vital...
Civil engineers have called for the creation of an independent body to identify the UK’s long-term infrastructure needs and are urging politicians to consider how such a body could be set up to avoid...
George Osborne has embarked on a tour of the country to find out what areas could benefit from additional funding for road improvements in next month’s Autumn Statement.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has set a target for the trans-Pennine rail line to be electrified by 2025 as part of plans to boost connectivity between cities in the North of England.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is to be led by a directly elected mayor under plans to devolve a host of powers to the city region, Chancellor George Osborne has announced today.
Roads minister John Hayes today confirmed that the Office of Rail Regulation will be given an expanded remit to hold the Highways Agency to account once the roads quango is given greater freedom from...
The prime minister and chancellor have given their backing to a proposed High Speed 3 rail scheme, which aims to provide better and quicker links between England’s northern cities.
Bids are being sought for the government’s shareholding in the Eurostar cross-Channel train service as part of government plans to raise as much as £20bn in state asset sales by 2020.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for the reopening of the railway between Oxford and Cambridge to connect as many as five garden cities and boost housebuilding.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has committed the party to implement the One North plan to improve transport link across the North of England and boost growth.
Stop-go funding deals for road repairs have made it difficult for local authorities to maintain roads cost-effectively and has put value for money at risk, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
The Local Government Association has announced the creation of a new company to issue municipal bonds, as the long-running plan for councils to borrow from the capital market nears fruition.
A proposal by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to create a new Thames Estuary airport has been ruled out by the government’s Airports Commission which is developing plans for additional aviation...
Plans for the next stage of the Cardiff Capital Region Metro, which aims to create an integrated public transport system for south east Wales by 2030, have been set out by Welsh transport minister...
Deregulation of bus services outside London has failed and new regional transport authorities should be created with powers to introduce franchises similar to those in the capital, the Institute for...
Councils are to be given powers to introduce tighter regulation of streetworks after the government said it would lift restrictions on the use of local permit schemes that are intended to coordinate...
Around one-third of the 1,886 government construction projects currently in the pipeline have no specified completion date, accountants KPMG have revealed today.
Plans to devolve new money and civic powers to the north of England are to be worked up over the next five months in order to form the centrepiece of December’s Autumn Statement, Chancellor George...
Five cities in the north of England have set out a £15bn plan to upgrade transport connections across the region to create an interconnected ‘economic powerhouse’.
Councils across the country are writing off millions of pounds of parking fines each year because they are unable to trace the drivers of foreign vehicles, the Local Government Association has said.
