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Heidi Alexander has been appointed as transport secretary after Louise Haigh resigned over a conviction for fraud.
The transport secretary has set out her vision for ‘more joined up and locally-led transport across England’ in what her department said will be the first integrated national transport strategy in a quarter of a century.
There were 2% fewer people killed on British roads in the year to June 2024 but the number of killed or seriously injured (KSI) casualties saw ‘little change’ compared to the previous year, according to official provisional figures.
HS2 Ltd has awarded contracts worth around £3bn for work to turn almost 140 miles of tunnels, bridges and earthworks between London and the West Midlands into an operational railway.
The transport secretary has appointed Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to lead a new expert group to ‘look at’ tackling the biggest barriers to air travel for disabled passengers.
“ Sara Ulrich, a resilience and wargaming expert at PA Consulting, asks why so many are waiting for fresh disruption before they act to build always-on resilience. ”
Tom Cummins and Viraf Avari, customer experience and operating model experts at PA Consulting, ask: How can transport organisations deliver excellent customer experience enabled by their operating model and AI?
West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin is due to announce on Thursday whether the combined authority that she leads will take forward proposals for bus franchising, but bus operators have poured resources into promoting their preferred option.
In the second of an occasional series, Chris Ames recounts a train trip to Austria in the aftermath of September's catastrophic floods.
