20 injured after crash tears roof off bus22/07/2025 A score of people were injured when the roof was ripped off a double-decker bus after it collided with a bridge - just one of a spate of such instances in the past year. |
London mayor to open up green belt for development09/05/2025 Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants to open up London's green belt to housing development, alongside a major investment in transport and infrastructure to enable 'higher density developments near public transport connections'. |
TfL announces £87m tranche of ‘safer, healthier and greener’ borough funding25/04/2025 Transport for London (TfL) has announced today that it is investing more than £87m across London boroughs and the City of London over the next year to make the streets ‘safer, healthier and greener’. |
Funding confirmed for London boroughs from £235m roads pot20/12/2023 Funding allocations have been confirmed for London boroughs from a £235m roads investment pot, part of the Government's wider £8.3bn programme to boost highways maintenance in the wake of cuts to HS2. |
London considers 'act of remembrance' for road deaths03/09/2021 The mayor of London is considering ways to publicly remember those who have lost their lives on the capital's roads. |
Khan boosts scrappage scheme by £5m in run-up to ULEZ16/07/2021 London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced another £5m for a scrappage scheme to help those on low incomes or with disabilities ditch polluting vehicles for cleaner models. |
London repairs backlog hits 'staggering' £1bn18/05/2021 The cost of the road maintenance backlog on London’s roads has now passed £1bn, according to the fourth annual ‘State of the City’ report from the London Technical Advisers Group. |
Contractors win big on £800m London framework24/02/2021 A handful of contractors have won places on Transport for London’s (TfL’s) latest surface transport infrastructure construction framework, which is expected to see spending of £800m over the next six years. |
FM Conway to light up London once again14/05/2020 Leading infrastructure services company FM Conway has secured a contract for the second phase of the Illuminated River project – a major public art commission for the capital’s bridges. |
London council leader calls funding situation 'ridiculous'31/05/2019 A senior London local politician has said the capital's councils are 'struggling' in their campaign for a share of ringfenced VED cash from 2020 and complained of the 'ridiculous' situation where Tube passengers were subsidising the road network. |
London's Illuminated River project to be 'longest public art commission in the world'14/01/2019 FM Conway has secured the first phase of the Illuminated River project, which once completed will span 4.5 nautical miles of the River Thames and be the longest public art commission in the world. |
London joint venture loses High Court battle with TfL19/04/2018 A joint venture working under the London Highways Alliance Contract has lost a High Court battle with Transport for London over work rates. |
FTA welcomes London "T-Charge"20/02/2017 The announcement by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to introduce an emissions surcharge on older, polluting vehicles within the city has been welcomed by the Freight Transport Association. |
McCann to carry out £6.5m Hillingdon street light upgrade19/01/2017 McCann will replace and maintain street lighting in London’s second largest borough, Hillingdon, after being awarded a £6.5 million contract. |
Contractors to deliver £500m civils deal on behalf of TfL05/01/2017 Costain, Morgan Sindall and Skanska will deliver £500 million worth of improvements to the capital's road network on behalf of Transport for London (TfL). |
Mayor invests £220m in London transport improvements15/12/2016 More than £200 million will be spent on transport, town centre and public space improvements in London over the next two years. |
Mayor sets out plans to tackle London’s road congestion22/11/2016 The Mayor of London has vowed to tackle the capital’s road congestion through a series of measures. |
Success for LTP13/10/2016 Beverley based Local Transport Projects (LTP) has won new contracts in Northern Ireland and London. |
IPPR calls for “North First” approach to infrastructure funding10/08/2016 Figures released by economic think tank IPPR reveal the North of England is six-times less funded than London on infrastructure. |
ICE call for road user charging in London02/02/2016 The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) wants road user charging to be considered as a way of funding infrastructure improvements in London. |
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