Transport Briefing

Network Rail top team forego bonus payments

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

David Higgins and other Network Rail executives are to donate any bonus payments they are allocated this year to improve level crossing safety. Amid mounting political pressure not to award large...

Greening to vote against Network Rail incentives

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Transport secretary Justine Greening has said she will vote against plans to offer Network Rail chief executive David Higgins a �340,000 bonus. The Secretary of State is to attend the infraco's...

Local transport decision making reforms set out

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Local enterprise partnerships are to be put at the heart of local transport project decision making under proposals announced this week by transport secretary Justine Greening. The Secretary of State...

Newspapers to lose right to carry traffic notices

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Changes to streamline the process local councils and the Highways Agency must go through when introducing new traffic restrictions have been set out by transport minister Norman Baker. Councils...

HS2 names firms on professional services roster

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

HS2 Ltd has revealed the companies which have secured a place on its professional services framework. Contracts will be let to around 20 firms to advance work on the High Speed 2 phase one programme....

Local branding debuts on revitalised First buses

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

First Group is rebranding its buses across the UK as part of the initial phase of a two-year modernisation programme. The new livery - on the operator's buses outside London - will ditch the existing...

Network Rail contractors pledge prompt payments

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Network Rail has launched a new Fair Payment Charter designed to ensure suppliers large and small are paid promptly. The charter has been signed by 30 of the biggest construction and engineering...

Stagecoach sets out rail management changes

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Stagecoach has announced a raft of senior management changes at its rail operations in the UK following the appointment of Tim Shoveller and David Horne as the managing directors of South West Trains...

Cash payments for scrap metal to be banned

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Railway cable thieves who cause travel chaos face harsher penalties under measures announced by Home Secretary Theresa May on Thursday (26 January). Cash payments for scrap metal - including copper...

Three more pilots for lane rental roadworks

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Transport minister Norman Baker has announced new powers to help councils cut the disruption caused by roadworks. Lane rental schemes will allow local authorities to charge utility companies up to ...