Transport Insights

The latest (12 November) issue of Local Transport Today (LTT) has a couple of stories based on my work – on smart motorways and on the confused picture on the Ely Area Capacity Enhancements rail scheme.

Among lots of news and analysis of key transport issues, LTT covers last week’s demonstration outside the Department for Transport (DfT) to press ministers to release a whole raft of evaluation reports on smart motorways that they are sitting on.

And in a story to which I contributed, LTT picks up on my reporting on the Ely scheme:

Doubt surrounds the prospects for a key freight-related rail upgrade scheme following conflicting signals from the government.

The shadow transport secretary has accused Labour of “deliberately misleading the public” after the Department for Transport (DfT) declined to back a minister’s claim that the Tories “closed” the major Ely Area Capacity Enhancements scheme intended to boost the potential for switching port freight from road to rail.

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