After six and a half years leading Britain’s new HS2 high-speed railway line, its chief executive has stepped down from the project. The announcement came on Wednesday when Mark Thurston announced he will be leaving the organization in autumn. Under Mr. Thurston’s leadership, the company has employed 28,500 people across the country. The HS2 commended…

The Alliance of British Drivers (ABD) has urged the British government not to follow the European Union, which has this week made it mandatory for all new cars, vans, and lorries to be fitted with Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) technology. ISA detects speed limits on roads through satnavs and other devices and gives audible or…

New rules introduced to make travel to the UK “easier and cheaper” have come into force. The UK’s traffic light system involving green, amber, and red lists has been scrapped, with locations categorized as either on the red list or not. It comes amid reports the number of countries on the red list will be…

Most drivers want hard shoulders reinstated on smart motorways, a new survey suggests. Some 62 percent of respondents to an RAC poll said controversial All Lane Running (ALR) motorways—which use the emergency stopping lane for live traffic—should be scrapped, but they want the technology that manages traffic flows and detects breakdowns to be retained. Concerns…

Lorry traffic controls designed to prevent post-Brexit disruption around the Port of Dover are to have their “sunset clauses” removed, allowing the emergency measures to be used indefinitely. It means that the implementation of a traffic reconfiguration to the M20 will be able to continue past its current Oct. 31 deadline once changes have been…