Campaigns to encourage parents to leave their cars at home for the school run in favour of low carbon alternatives such as cycling are to benefit from a £2 million fund. The Department for Transport is providing the extra cash for nine schemes to encourage more sustainable travel choices. They include a project to make […]

The Government has announced a £78.5 million fund to support sustainable transport schemes across England. Local authorities are being invited to bid for a slice of the cash – up to £1 million – from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund to support a range of travel measures. The projects are expected to reduce excess traffic […]

The Government has pledged £1.4 million of extra cash for projects to reduce air pollution from public transport. The latest round of funding sees Brighton and Hove, Sunderland, Oxford, York and Swale borough councils offered grants between £23,700 and £750,000 to retrofit 92 buses with exhaust emission reduction technology. Transport Minister Baroness Kramer said: “This […]

The UK’s first all electric pay-per-use car club has launched today in East London. The E-Car Club switched on the ignition in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, where the company is working with the social housing landlord Poplar HARCA, the owner of 9,000 local homes. The first cars available to residents are the Renault […]