Severn toll charges to end

This morning’s announcement by M6 toll operator Midland Expressway that goods vehicles are exempt from a planned price increase when using the road has been welcomed by the Freight Transport Association (FTA). The UK’s biggest transport trade body says the move will be a boost for freight firms that operate… Read more »

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is calling on the Government to guarantee its pre-election promise to remove all charges on the Severn Bridges.   The two bridges spanning the Severn estuary on the M4 and M48 motorways in Wales have the highest toll charges on the entireUK road network. This… Read more »

The Freight Transport Association (FTA), the membership trade organisation which represents the transport interests of companies moving goods by road, rail, sea and air, has welcomed the announcement from the Department for Transport that tolls payable at the Severn Crossing are to be reduced. The reductions, which are to be… Read more »

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has been looking at stretches of the UK’s strategic road network that would most benefit from Government investment following the Chancellor’s commitment in his Autumn Statement tofund improvements to congestion hot spots.   Philip Hammond said last month the Government would spend £1.3bn on improving England’s roads, including £220m on tackling congestion at… Read more »

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is pleased its concerns about management and signalling on smart motorways have been addressed in the Government’s response to a Transport Select Committee report published today. FTA raised its concerns with Highways England on Red X compliance and proper management of the signal systems on smart motorways. The Government has today… Read more »

The Road Haulage Association strongly supports the Department for Transport’s commitment to change the law, so that fixed penalties can be imposed by the police on drivers who ignore red X lane closure signs on motorways. The announcement came today in its reply to the Commons transport select committee regarding… Read more »

IRISH SEA freight  ferry operator Seatruck says the opening of the new £124.5million Bay Gateway relief road in Lancaster, is the biggest commercial opportunity for the Port of Heysham in its history. Seatruck CEO Alistair Eagles said the opening, on October 31, is the long awaited ‘big bang’ moment for… Read more »

It is important to concentrate on educating drivers on the safe use of smart motorways, the Freight Transport Association has said following a statement by the House of Commons Transport Committee.   Smart motorways use technology to actively manage traffic, keeping vehicles flowing freely and increasing the capacity of the road by either temporarily or permanently opening the hard shoulder to traffic…. Read more »

Labour MP Rob Flello has today welcomed the report of Parliament’s Transport Select Committee, which concluded that the ‘attendant safety risks’ of the loss of the hard shoulder in All Lane Running schemes has not been fully addressed, and called on Government not to proceed with further such schemes whilst… Read more »