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The Government’s failure to devise a fair funding system for flood defences means wider service cuts for at-risk communities, council bosses have warned.
Scotland's finance secretary, Shona Robison, has announced spending cuts of £500m in the current financial year, with spending on sustainable and active travel badly hit.
Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £27m contract to deliver a flood protection scheme in Scotland on behalf of Perth and Kinross Council.
Balfour Beatty VINCI has moved a 1,600-tonne steel and concrete bridge into place in Birmingham in just five hours as part of works to take HS2 to the city.
Passengers may have to be incentivised not to travel by rail because the curtailed HS2 programme will reduce capacity, Parliament’s spending watchdog has warned.
Reform of the Local Government Pension Scheme could unlock £40bn of investment for infrastructure, an insurance company has estimated.
The King has confirmed that the new Government will bring forward legislation to bring bus and rail services more closely under public control.
Network Rail has postponed the re-opening of a major road route into Oxford and has not been able to say when its beleaguered project will be completed.
The new Labour Government has set out a widespread plan for devolution and economic growth in its Parliamentary timetable, with central diktat reserved for planning proposals.
“ 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.
Chris Ames visits Paris 2024 by public transport, swims in a Bruges canal, and lives to tell the tale.
