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.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has scrapped the West Coast Main Line rail franchise competition, citing ‘unacceptable mistakes’ by his department.
Labour would keep the East Coast rail franchise in government hands to provide a ‘public sector comparator’ with private train operators, shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle has revealed.
The government will provide further financial backing to the £14.5bn London Crossrail rail project by guaranteeing the private funding used to purchase trains for the new line, Chief Secretary to the...
MPs on the transport select committee have called for councils to be given more control over local bus services to allow them to set service standards, timetables and fares.
Further changes to planning rules could be introduced to ‘accelerate’ the development of new airport runways in the UK, the government has revealed. Announcing the launch of a commission
The government has been warned today that it is ‘missing a major trick’ by devolving economic powers to cities only rather than offering them to wider local government.
The government is set to complete the deal to transfer the West Coast rail line from Virgin Trains to First Group tomorrow, despite calls for MPs to examine the contract first.
Virgin Trains has lost the West Coast rail franchise between London and Glasgow after rival First Group promised to pay the government £5.5bn to run trains on the line.