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Bank holiday weekend and start of school holidays take place at same time, with high traffic volumes expectedDrivers are being warned to expect long delays over Easter as millions of getaway trips lead to soaring traffic volumes and congested motorways.The RAC said that more than 14m journeys on some popular routes could take twice as long as normal, as the first bank holiday weekend...

Five-mile stretch in Surrey of UK’s busiest motorway is shut all weekend while a bridge is demolishedThousands of drivers face being stuck in gridlocked traffic this weekend due to an unprecedented closure of the M25, Britain’s busiest motorway.A five-mile stretch of the motorway between junctions 10 and 11 in Surrey was closed in both directions at 9pm on Friday while a bridge is demolished...

Research looked at three London boroughs to value overall health benefits of active travel over 20 years at up to £4,800 per headPolicies to help people walk and cycle such as low-traffic neighbourhoods can create public health benefits as much as 100 times greater than the cost of the schemes, a long-term study of active travel measures has concluded.The research, based on six years...

Motoring association criticises data quality and say Australia has ‘no credible plan’ to reduce incidents as nation records 677 deaths since July 2023Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe second half of 2023 was the deadliest six months on Australian roads since 2010, but there is “no credible plan” to make roads safer, the industry claims, as it...

Driver was unaware he had to register French hire car with TfL’s collection agent even though it was emissions compliantThousands of EU citizens ‘wrongly fined for driving in London Ulez’How Belgian MP turned sleuth to solve Ulez fine mysteryChristian Ducarre received three fines totalling nearly £11,000 after driving his French hire car to London to attend his son’s wedding. The car, which was fully...

Exclusive: EU states accuse TfL of huge data breach over clean air zone penalties, with many given to compliant vehiclesEU motorist’s £11,000 run-in with London Ulez rulesHow Belgian MP turned sleuth to solve Ulez fine mysteryHundreds of thousands of EU citizens were wrongly fined for driving in London’s Ulez clean air zone, according to European governments, in what has been described as “possibly one...