September 2025: an unexpectedly lively month for UK transport

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back to all A look at the transport industry in September September 2025, which brought Labour’s party conference and more than a flurry of political drama, proved consequential for the UK transport industry. Early in the month, the Prime Minister launched an unexpected reshuffle of his Government. While Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander remained in post, […]

August 2025 – not such a silly season after all

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back to all A look at the transport industry in August While traditionally the political ‘silly season’, August 2025 brought some serious developments for transport in the UK. And with conference season just around the corner, things can be expected to get more and more interesting in the coming weeks. Greater Manchester’s Bee Network received a […]

July in Transport: Rail, Road and Regions

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back to all A look at the transport industry in July July, being the pre-summer holidays washup month that it is, saw a number of significant developments for the UK transport sector, spanning road, rail and micromobility. At the beginning of the month, Ministers unveiled a £92 billion package for over 50 road and rail upgrades […]

June – a decisive month for UK transport

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back to all A look at the transport industry in June As Parliament and politics in general groan towards the summer recess, June brought significant developments across the UK transport sector. Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, set out a sweeping £725 billion 10-year infrastructure strategy, one of the most comprehensive in decades. […]

Full steam ahead for rail nationalisation 

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back to all A look at the transport industry in May As the month of the first nationalised train service as part of the Government’s wider public ownership programme, May 2025 was destined to be a historic month for both the rail and wider transport industries. In the event, the first train service departed from […]

April 2025: pro-motorist choices signal a gear change in Government

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back to all A look at the transport industry in April After a similarly quiet March, there was little in April to upset or excite the transport sector. A drip-feed of positive but expected announcements, a few politically-expedient Ministerial decisions and the conclusion of the Great British Railways consultation gave the industry just enough to […]

Rail fare rises and Heathrow chaos define a quiet March

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back to all A look at the transport industry in March What turned out to be an uneventful Spring Statement – as far as transport is concerned, at least – drew to a close a relatively quiet March. Much of the industry will still be busy putting together their responses to the Great British Railways […]

February 2025: Rail Continues To Take Centre Stage

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back to all A look at the transport industry in February Rail has taken up much of the transport industry’s bandwidth in February, with many of the government’s reforms reaching key milestones this month. The Integrated National Transport Strategy (INTS) Call for Ideas, which launched late last year, closed on the 20th of February. Inviting […]

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back to all A look at the transport industry in January After a relatively quiet start to 2025, Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ renewed focus on boosting Britain’s economic growth has energised both politics and the transport industry.   The most striking – and controversial – of Reeves’ proposals to kickstart the economy is the resurrection of Heathrow’s third runway (along with expansion […]