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Cross-party MPs have called for a reconsideration of the planned enhancements to the strategic road network (SRN) as they are expensive and complex, leading to delays that cause confusion and uncertainty.

These are the findings of the Transport Select Committee’s inquiry into the government’s strategic road investment strategy, published today (26…

Delaying High Speed 2 (HS2) – and other major infrastructure projects – will not save money, the transport secretary Mark Harper has said in an evidence session for the Transport Select Committee this week.

In March the Department for Transport announced its intention to “rephase” the delivery of Phase 2b (Crewe…

Representatives of three sub-national transport bodies (SNTB) have described the “profound impact” that the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) delays to major road schemes has on their regions’ planning and strategic decision making.

SNTBs are statutory transport organisations that encompass numerous local councils and provide strategic governance on a larger scale than…

Roads minister Richard Holden has said that the concentration of roads expenditure in the south of England in the next Roads Investment Strategy (RIS) period, which runs from 2025 to 2030, supports levelling up as the benefits will be felt in other regions too.

Holden, who is also Conservative MP for…

The Department for Transport (DfT) and National Highways have admitted that there will be “very limited” headroom for new roads projects during the next five-year road investment period as £11.5bn of work is years behind schedule.

National Highways is allocated money to invest in the country’s strategic road network in five-year…

The Transport Select Committee has launched an inquiry into the management of the government’s £24bn five-year road investment strategy (RIS) for 2020 to 2025, known as RIS2.

In particular, the cross-party group of MPs is attempting to understand why cost increases and delays have occurred on several major projects. The periodic…

HS2 Ltd is fighting against inflationary cost pressures through measures such as collaboration between contractors, procurement efficiency, working with universities on innovation and resource sharing, among others.

The UK’s major infrastructure project has come under extra scrutiny as reports have leaked that Phase 1 will be “many billions more than the…

The Department for Transport (DfT) has admitted that the long-awaited £9bn Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline (RNEP) still has no publication date.

July of this year marked more than 1,000 days since the publication of the RNEP, which the DfT promised to update annually. However in a transport committee meeting yesterday DfT…

The creation of Great British Railways (GBR) has been delayed, new transport secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said.

Speaking to the transport committee today, Trevelyan admitted the new public body to operate Britain's railways will not be established by early 2024 as previously promised. The decision to establish GBR was a key…

The Integrated Rail Plan (IRP) lacks sufficient evidence for the cuts to HS2 Eastern Leg and Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) and will not deliver its transformational promises to those who need it most, according to a new report from cross-party MPs.

The IRP was published by the Department for Transport (DfT)…