Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
A £96m contract to install the technology that will allow the hard shoulder on parts of the motorway network around Birmingham to be opened to traffic during busy periods has been awarded to Carillion. This comes less than a week after Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly announced a £6 billion investment program to improve and make [...]
Karen's Blog (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
The transport secretary Ruth Kelly has set out plans for pay as you go lanes on motorways . Under the scheme motorists would pay around £5 a time to use the lanes which would allow them to bypass motorway jams. On some motorways widening schemes would be put in place to create an extra lane but others would make use of the existing hard shoulder. Whilst the idea is interesting I'm not entirely sure...
Andrew Allison (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Stuck in a traffic jam? Tempted to use the hard shoulder? Thanks to the awfully nice Ruth Kelly, soon you will, although there will be a £5 administration and processing fee. This government just doesn't get it, does it? Read the full story HERE .
the Courier Shop blog (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
That’s right, Ruth Kelly has announced today after successful trials in the Midlands, hard shoulder running will be allowed at a price. Hard shoulder running is to be introduced on 500 miles of British motorways. These are thought to include the M3 and M4 coming into London, the M4 and M5 around Bristol, and the [...]
Cranmer (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Should any of Cranmer’s readers or communicants be interested, the voting preferences for votes cast electronically at the recent sessions of the General Synod are on-line . Some bishops abstained and some, in true Ruth Kelly style, absented themselves. All of this is proving highly entertaining for those who profess allegiance to the Bishop of Rome, highly embarrassing for those who profess allegiance...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Ruth Kelly, Transport Secretary, today announced a £6 billion investment package to improve and make better use of England’s motorways and other key roads and also published the Command Paper ‘Roads - Delivering Choice and Reliability’ setting out more detail on her innovative plans to tackle congestion, both on strategic routes and in our towns [...]
Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Commenting on Ruth Kelly’s announcement that £6bn will be spent on road improvements by 2014, Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Norman Baker said: "This is a carbon catastrophe. Yet more funding is being channelled into increasing road capacity rather than expanding the railways and supporting public transport. "This Department has lazily fallen back on predict and provide and has chosen...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Ruth Kelly, transport secretary, will invite the private sector to come up with innovative schemes to tackle gridlock on Britain's motorways, including the possibility of turning hard shoulders into toll lanes to beat the jams
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
PRESSURE is mounting on Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly to make an immediate commitment to provide the £135million needed to complete the dualling of the A11.
TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly has launched today, a consultation on European Commission (EC) proposals to introduce compulsory CO2 targets for new cars. The proposed target of 130gCO2/km by 2012 as the fleet average for each car manufacturer across the EU for all new cars is being promoted as an important step forward in tackling climate change, [...]
Cranmer (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
It appears that Ruth Kelly arranged her Brussels escape route in vain, for Labour has announced an amendment to next week's parliamentary business. There was due to be a debate and vote on the remaining stages of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, and Mrs Kelly had been given permission by the Prime Minister to attend to very urgent business in Brussels. But Harriet Harman has now rescheduled...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Ruth Kelly has launched a consultation into plans to limit new vehicle CO2 emissions to 130g/km.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
THE indication this week from Ruth Kelly, the Transport Secretary, that there will be a major rethink on the initial target of a 5 per cent biofuel content in diesel by 2010
Another Green World (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Bolton Evening News (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Ruth Kelly's delay over the decision on Heathrow Airport expansion has been branded a "runway wobble".
