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.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has hit out at ‘draconian’ council parking policies that he says are driving people away from town centres and give many authorities a bad name
Former Chancellor Alastair Darling today urged the government to halt plans for the High Speed 2 rail line, warning that the scheme would restrict vital improvements to other part of the network.
London’s explosive population growth means it needs even more public investment in transport despite competing demands elsewhere in the country, according to London Assembly members.
The Office for Rail Regulation is urging the government to consider letting private firms take over parts of the UK’s rail infrastructure, in a bid to increase investment in the network.
The government has been urged to halt work on the development of the High Speed 2 rail line until it has decided on the future of airport capacity in the southeast of England.
The government will fund or guarantee £300bn of capital spending by the end of the decade, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
