Transport and streets

• Consultation launched on proposed Workplace Parking Levy

  16 December 2021

  4 minute read

  PEOPLE are being asked to give their views in a public consultation over a proposed Workplace Parking Levy (WPL) which could help fund a radical overhaul and long-term modernisation of the city’s public transport, cycling and walking networks.

• Plans outlined for major improvement scheme on Saffron Lane

  15 December 2021

  2 minute read

  IMPROVEMENTS are planned for Leicester’s busy Saffron Lane as part of a major Government-backed programme of investment in sustainable travel across the city.

• New 20mph zone in streets at Ashton Green

  13 December 2021

  1 minute read

  SPEED restrictions are due to be introduced in a number of residential streets around a city school.

• Proposals to make schools’ pedestrian safety measures permanent

  9 December 2021

  2 minute read

  TRAFFIC measures put in place to improve pedestrian safety on roads outside eight Leicester schools could be made permanent.

• Leicester Park and Ride running extra services throughout December

  30 November 2021

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER Park & Ride is running extra services throughout December – which means shoppers can catch a Park & Ride bus into the city centre every day in December except Christmas Day.

• Public art commission celebrates city’s links with the fox

  30 November 2021

  2 minute read

  THE FOX is to be celebrated in a series of life-size sculptures that will be installed at three sites across the city centre.

• Welford Road £3m improvement scheme completed

  25 November 2021

  1 minute read

  AN extensive road scheme to improve one of the key routes in and out of the city has been completed.

• Improvement work planned for popular walking and cycling route

  23 November 2021

  1 minute read

  Improvements to a popular walking and cycling route will be carried out next week.

• Improved parking areas and laybys for communities across the city

  19 November 2021

  1 minute read

  A PROGRAMME of installing new parking areas and laybys in residential areas across Leicester gets underway this month.

• Major roadworks due on East Park Road

  17 November 2021

  1 minute read

  EXTENSIVE resurfacing work will be taking place on a section of a busy Leicester from this weekend.

• Experimental scheme will close rat-run as part of £1m highway improvements

  12 November 2021

  2 minute read

  A RESIDENTIAL street used by rat-running motorists is to be partly closed to traffic in an experimental scheme to improve road safety.

• Leicester schools make active travel pledges for COP26

  10 November 2021

  3 minute read

  FIVE Leicester secondary schools are marking the COP26 climate conference with pledges of their own to make a difference to their local environment.