The number of public electric vehicle (EV) charge points is currently on course to meet the minimum 300,000 needed across the UK by 2030, but challenges remain on locations, accessibility and wider barriers such as planning rules.
The UK has a proud history of making transport more accessible for disabled people.
I’m delighted that the Labour Party has announced its Plan for Better Buses.
Powers to ban pavement parking should be extended across England to make streets safer, councils have said.
The Government has announced £8.3 billion of extra funding, re-directed from HS2, to help improve local roads in England.
Councils need new powers to decide the way local bus services are delivered to end a ‘spiral of decline’ in services.
‘Trust councils to make transport decisions’
Councils, not Whitehall, should be trusted to make decisions about local transport issues with their residents, the LGA has said, in response to the Government’s ‘Plan for drivers’.
