Transport for London’s £132M Old Street station and junction upgrade is approaching significant milestones as engineers work to complete the major project in early 2024.
Newly confirmed TfL commissioner Andy Lord gave an update on the project’s progress in his latest report, presented to the TfL board yesterday. It reveals that…
Transport for London (TfL) has today confirmed its interim commissioner Andy Lord will take on the role as permanent transport commissioner.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and the TfL board made the announcement after conducting “a rigorous international search and selection process". Lord joined TfL in November 2019 as London…
A £15M study exploring the construction of a part-underground transit system in Bristol has been confirmed despite a key figure in the multi-billion pound project saying it is “unlikely” to go ahead.
The West of England metro mayor and West of England Combined Authority (WECA) lead Dan Norris has authorised the…
The mayors of Manchester and London have urged ministers to invest in key stations in the cities to create “the best form of High Speed 2”.
Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan demanded an underground through-station at Manchester Piccadilly as well as a terminus at London Euston to ensure fast connections from…
Spades are in the ground on the new Cambridge South railway station, which is being backed by £200M of government funding.
The new station will have four platforms and be fully accessible. It is on land adjacent to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and received a green light in December from the…
A £450M metro line near Birmingham could be forced to terminate short of its planned destination because of spiralling costs.
Councillors on the board of the West Midlands Combined Authority will this week be asked to approve a phased plan for the Wednesbury to Brierley Hill extension. The scheme is designed…
An “intensive period” of construction has begun to build two new platforms and realign track for a new train station in Bristol.
The station at Ashley Down is part of a wider MetroWest 2 project which will re-open the Henbury Line, between Bristol Temple Meads and Henbury to passenger traffic. It…
The Bakerloo line extension has been given a green light following approval by all 33 of London’s boroughs under a new London-focused infrastructure framework.
Technical work to prepare for the Bakerloo line extension is underway, preparing Southwark, Lewisham and Transport for London (TfL) to seek government approval for the scheme via…
A new report has detailed how a severe labour and skills shortage within the construction industry could greatly impact the delivery of the UK’s next National Infrastructure Construction Pipeline (NICP).
Consultancy Currie & Brown’s Construction Market Outlook report, which has tracked construction activity since the start of 2023, indicates that 225,000…
Arup has been engaged to provide services for Macau Light Rapid Transit (LRT) East Line south section including civil, geotechnical, structural, architectural, MEP and fire engineering services.
Arup was commissioned by the joint venture of China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong), China State Construction Engineering (Macau) and Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Macau branch,…
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