Department for Transport


Road journeys down in 2013 says DfT traffic figures

Poverty, recession and bad weather cited as reasons for fewer journeys

Birmingham reacts as council lays out plans to compete for £10 million of cycle funding

Department for Transport running £30 million competition for cities to win Cycle City Ambition grants

Dozens of new cycle lanes and safety measures as councils set out their schemes for spending national cycling funding

£107 million pot includes £40 million to improve the most dangerous junctions in the country

Final session of Parliamentary Cycling Inquiry takes place on Monday

Report sponsored by Times cycling campaign to folllow

6000 lose driving licence for poor eyesight in 2011 - and that's a 39% rise in the number of bus and lorry drivers

The responsibilty is on drivers to state when their eyesight is too bad to drive

Spring/Summer road casualty figures show drop in 'vulnerable road user' casualties, but it's not all good news

DfT admits that wet weather had more to do with drop in figures than anything else

Cabinet Reshuffle - Greening out for McLoghlin as Transport Minister

Todays reshuffling of the fools in government sees Justine Greening replaced by Patrick Mcloughlin as transport minister. I understand Greening was moderately cycling friendly but have no idea about her replacement - sounds like a job for some road.cc investigation!

Cycling's North/South divide revealed by new DfT figures

Breakdown of figures by local authority reveals most areas with high usage in South and East, North lags behind

DfT advises cutting some rural speed limits to 40mph to protect vulnerable road users

Advice u-turn on urban 20mph zones too… the DfT is now in favour