Transport

"Smart" traffic lights which turn green exactly as drivers arrive are to be tested in Britain - and the way they work is superbly simple.more

Tube drivers on the Jubilee Line will strike for two days next month in a row over new timetables.more

Two Fife women racially abused a bus driver as he brought passengers back from the Edinburgh Festival. The driver said it was the worst abuse he had endured.more

A new Tube map has revealed the best locations to live in London to cut down journey times while saving on rent. Seven Sisters on the Victoria line, with an average weekly rent of £209 and a journey time of 15 minutes to Green Park, came out on top.more

More than four million trains are being rescheduled from Sunday so now may be a good time to check your regular route.more

A steam railway trust has been fined £40,000 after a boy nearly fell through the open floor of a toilet cubicle.more

Train bosses are racking up expenses bills of more than £500,000 a year paying for flights within the UK instead of getting the train, it has been claimed. Network Rail spent over half a million pounds on internal flights for staff and a further £400,000 for bosses to fly abroad.more

Ireland's road network is grinding to a halt at peak times of the day, with overcrowded public transport services unable to provide a viable alternative to the car. The peak travel period on our busy national roads now spans six hours of the day, but much of the bus, rail and tram network is unable to provide an alternative service for motorists keen to ditch the car.more

A new state-funded 'drink-link' bus will service 50 communities in rural Ireland. Minister for Transport Shane Ross is due to announce the service this week which will help slash rates of drink driving across the country.more

Glasgow Queen Street has been named Britain's most unpopular railway station in a survey of passengers. Independent watchdog Transport Focus took the views of more than 28,000 people at 56 stations for its ranking.more

Junk food adverts are set to be banned from the London Underground under new proposals unveiled on Friday by Sadiq Khan. The plans include a ban on all adverts for food and drink high in fat, salt or sugar across the entire Transport for London network, including buses.more

The Silvertown Tunnel, which will link the Royal Docks with the Greenwich Peninsula, will "ease serious congestion", according to Transport for London.more

Dublin Bus has earned €5.7 million from unclaimed change receipts in the past six years. However, the transport company is now pulling in less than 50% of what it was in 2012, most likely as a result of the bedding-down of the cross-platform Leap Card.more

All new trains and rail signalling will be digital or digital-ready from next year to reduce overcrowding and cut delays, the Transport Secretary has announced. Chris Grayling compared the move to when consumers bought future-proof digital televisions ahead of the switchover from analogue broadcasts around a decade ago.more

Leaked reports yesterday appeared to suggest that the government is considering including some hybrid cars in a sale ban to be enforced by 2040, much to the misguided anger of Prius owners and the auto industry.more

A survey by KPMG on behalf of the rail industry found that only one in three (34%) passengers were "very confident" they bought the best value ticket for their last journey.more

Polish Airlines LOT launched new airline route from Warsaw to Nuremberg in Germany.more

The Hungarian air carrier Wizz Air has carried over 30 million passengers in the last twelve months.more

Police have arrested two suspected migrants who were stowed away in the back of a Polish lorry. The men were detained at Oxford Services on the M40 motorway today in Oxfordshire. more

Wizz Air, the Hungarian low-cost airline, has obtained licences for its UK subsidiary in part to ensure it can keep operating in the UK after Brexit.more

Trains could soon be running around the clock across Britain amid demands for modernised rail services, the chief executive of Network Rail has said.more

District line passengers have complained of being stuck on packed trains between stations after a signal failure caused travel chaos.more

The body of a 47-year-old man was allegedly run over by up to 300 Piccadilly line trains after Tube workers mistook it for a fox. more

Tens of thousands of rail commuters face chaos after union bosses announced a fresh batch of strikes. Services on Greater Anglia and South Western trains serving London, as well as on Arriva Rail North trains, will stage a series of walkouts in May.more

Torrential downpours are set to batter parts of London over the weekend forcing the Met Office to issue a yellow alert for rain across a huge swathe of the south east.more