Scotland to hand councils full road user charging powers20/06/2025 The Scottish Government has pledged to hand local roads authorities all the powers they need to introduce road user charging, having admitted that it will almost certainly fail to reach its target of a 20% reduction in car kilometres by 2030. |
Winners of £26m active travel cash revealed15/05/2025 Scottish transport secretary, Fiona Hyslop has announced the winners of a £26m tranche of cash for a raft of active travel projects. |
Call for Scottish roads policing rethink as KSIs rise05/11/2024 A new report from Scotland’s police watchdog has linked a reduction in police activity to an ongoing rise in serious road casualties in the country. |
Scotland announces local safety cash with £4m for 20mph limits04/11/2024 The Scottish Government has committed £14m this financial year to Scotland’s 32 councils to enhance road safety, with £4m dedicated to the rollout of 20mph limits. |
£5m for Scottish LEZ support as wider enforcement set to begin13/05/2024 The Scottish Government has put £5m into the Low Emission Zone Support Fund for 2024-25, as the devolved nation prepares for an enforcement roll-out at the end of May. |
Challenging year puts resilience top of the agenda in Scotland30/11/2023 Scotland is ready for winter, the country’s transport minister has said, but she warned that recent weather events should serve as a warning to take action on climate change. |
Scottish building regs to put EV chargers in new developments11/08/2022 The Scottish Government has said it will legislate to ensure developers provide electric vehicle (EV) charge points in the construction of new residential and non-residential buildings. |
Council seeks bidders for £40m roads works08/12/2021 Renfrewshire Council is advertising a framework contract for roads-related maintenance works worth up to £40m. |
Missing you already: Bridge restoration at 'historic stage'17/03/2021 Work to restore the 200-year-old Union Chain Bridge in Northumberland has reached ‘a symbolic stage’, with the physical connection between England and Scotland at the site being severed. |
Official figures confirm rise in Scottish road deaths28/10/2020 Final figures for Scotland's road safety record in 2019 have confirmed that the number of people killed in crashes increased from 161 in 2018 to 165, while a further 2,016 people were seriously injured. |
Scottish road works commissioner appointed03/09/2020 Head of roads at Glasgow City Council, Kevin Hamilton, has been appointed as Scottish road works commissioner. |
A83 still closed as rain hits Rest of Scotland13/08/2020 Heavy rainfall has caused disruption and damage on roads across Scotland, with severe weather warnings exacerbating a new closure of the A83 at Rest and Be Thankful. |
Local road staffing in Scotland falls by 20%21/01/2020 A national survey of local authority roads staff in Scotland has found numbers dropped by some 20% in the last three years, with around half of the heads of department moving jobs. |
Scotland to launch national road worker training programme21/01/2020 The national Scottish Roads Training Programme is set to be launched on 29 January with the ambition of re-engineering how road operatives are qualified and how training programmes are procured. |
West Lothian uses risk-based approach to close in on targets04/12/2019 A council in Scotland has used a standardised risk-based approach template created by local officers’ body SCOTS to dramatically improve its ability to meet response times for road defects. |
Report investigates value of Scottish local network - estimated at £6bn a year25/11/2019 A project in Scotland involving key public sector bodies has outlined a framework for analysing the value of the local road network and investment and intervention programmes - including economic, social and environmental factors. |
Europe’s first full-sized autonomous bus trialled at CAV Scotland13/11/2019 Watch SMART Highways' video of Europe’s first full-sized self-driving bus demonstrated at CAV Scotland in Glasgow. |
Highland capital gets £90m roundabout upgrade27/06/2019 Transport Scotland has published details of its preferred option for a £90m scheme to address a traffic bottleneck in Inverness. |
Scotland road safety: Difficulties on journey of progress19/06/2019 Latest figures suggest Scotland achieved mixed results in road safety last year, with another record breaking drop in overall casualties but an increase in the number of people killed on the roads. |
Scotland's 20mph roll-out suffers blow31/05/2019 A national roll-out of 20mph speed limits in Scotland has suffered a blow after a key committee refused to recommend the bill. |
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