New measures to help prevent the worst excesses of rogue parking companies have become law. The Parking (Code of Practice) bill - introduced to parliament by Sir Greg Knight MP - aims to introduce

Utility companies could be made to repair any own shoddy workmanship if road reinstatements deteriorate within five years of being done. Gas, water, electricity and telecoms companies already provi

The number of road users who have completed a driver retraining course since their introduction in 2010 has topped ten million. Nine million of these have attended a speed aware course, 1.19 millio

The quickest-acting councils in Great Britain aim to fill in the most severe potholes in their roads within minutes. Cumbria, Flintshire and South Lanarkshire aim to act “immediately” to repair

The one-off cost of clearing the total maintenance backlog for the near 72,000 council-managed road bridges in Great Britain has increased by a third. Analysis by the RAC Foundation of data for the

Motorcyclists represent an increasing proportion of road crash casualties across the world as the motorcycle fleet grows (WHO, 2015). Helmets are a proven safety measure, credited with reducing rider

Widespread confusion over how fast electric vehicles can be ‘refuelled’ could be undermining efforts to provide an adequate public chargepoint network. The latest battery-only cars need only fi

New data suggests that private parking firms are issuing penalties to drivers at the rate of one every five seconds. Information published by the DVLA shows that in the second quarter of 2018-19 th

Councils in England have seen their parking ‘profits’ rise by almost a third (32%) in just four years. In 2017-18, the combined surplus made by the 353 English local authorities was £867 milli