Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to announce a new £200m funding scheme to help tackle the plague of potholes on roads across Britain.
Started by the Daily Mail, the campaign to help improve Britain’s roads will see more than four million potholes filled in.
The Welsh Deputy Minister for Climate Change Lee Waters has announced that the country has axed all major road building projects to ‘reduce carbon emissions’ and help in the switch to the way people use the road networks.
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Traffic lights could become obsolete in 20 years, an engineer supporting a groundbreaking self-driving cars trial said.
(more…)Drivers are being warned to expect a surge in potholes due to the large amount of rain that fell either side of December’s freezing temperatures.
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Drivers are being warned to prepare for long queues as millions of people embark on journeys to spend Christmas with friends and family.
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UK drivers are embarking on an estimated 20 million car trips to see friends and family in the run-up to Christmas Day.
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Smart motorway safety targets for detecting stranded vehicles are being missed, a regulator has found.
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Vehicle breakdowns reached record levels on Monday due to freezing conditions across the UK.
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Drivers are being warned to expect lengthy traffic jams on major routes in the run-up to Christmas.
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Motorists could face treacherous conditions on the roads as an Arctic blast hits the UK, with temperatures set to plummet to “as low as minus 10C overnight in isolated spots by the end of the week”.
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Cutting speed limits on urban roads to 20mph does not significantly improve safety, a new report suggests.
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AA patrols have been attending an extra 225 pothole-related breakdowns each day during November.
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Just one in five motorists thinks that it is important to switch to winter tyres, a new survey has found.
(more…)Six-in-10 drivers believe that the state of the local roads they used frequently is worse than a year ago, a new survey has found.
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Three-quarters of British drivers would be happy for noise cameras to be fitted in their local area, a new survey has found.
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A noise-detecting traffic camera is being trialled to catch so-called boy racers.
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The proportion of car occupants killed in crashes who were not wearing a seatbelt has reached the highest level on record, figures show.
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The boss of Halfords has warned that the cost-of-living crisis is creating “a risk to road safety” as drivers buy older cars and struggle with maintenance costs.
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An amber traffic warning has been issued for this weekend as an estimated 15 million bank holiday leisure trips are planned.
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Drivers are being warned to expect severe congestion, with the AA issuing its first “amber traffic warning” for Friday and Saturday.
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