Transport and streets

• Temporary cycle lane creates route to help key workers

  27 April 2020

  3 minute read

  A NEW cycle track has been put in place to help key workers who are biking to work during the coronavirus lockdown.

• City council launches ‘bikes for key workers’ scheme

  8 April 2020

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER City Council has teamed up with local bike shops, projects and organisations to offer free bikes to key workers during the coronavirus crisis.

• Work completed on latest community parking spaces scheme

  30 March 2020

  1 minute read

  OVER 50 new parking spaces and laybys have been created across Leicester as part of a programme to help neighbourhoods.

• Shopmobility service in the city to close temporarily

  18 March 2020

  1 minute read

  A VOLUNTEER-led service providing scooters for elderly people and those with mobility issues has closed temporarily.

• £33m funding announced for city transport schemes

  12 March 2020

  3 minute read

  AMBITIOUS plans for public transport, cycling and walking improvements across Leicester have been given a £33million boost thanks to a successful bid to the Government’s Transforming City Fund.

• Road safety scheme to go ahead in Humberstone Village

  3 March 2020

  2 minute read

  A SERIES of measures to improve road safety in a community is due to be put into place.

• Work progressing well on congestion-busting scheme

  2 March 2020

  2 minute read

  A £10.7m highways scheme to reduce congestion and improve road links between the county and the city is gathering pace - and running to schedule.

• Overnight closures planned as Lancaster Road scheme nears completion

  2 March 2020

  2 minute read

  MOTORISTS are being warned about a series of overnight road closures that will be taking place on Leicester’s busy inner ring road from later this month.

• Traffic calming schemes to tackle local concerns

  28 February 2020

  2 minute read

  TWO new traffic calming schemes and 20mph zones are due to be introduced in the streets near to a busy Leicester primary school following local calls for action to improve road safety.

• £1m funding boost to help promote cycling and walking

  19 February 2020

  3 minute read

  MORE than £1million of Government funding has been secured to help further work to promote walking and cycling in Leicester and Leicestershire.

• Plough’s your big chance to name a gritting lorry

  12 February 2020

  2 minute read

  DO you know your Otis Spreading from your Snow Stormzy, or your Gritney Spears from your Basil Salty?

• Overnight lane closures as part of improvement work at St Margaret’s Bus Station

  12 February 2020

  1 minute read

  THE latest phase of a project to cut journey times for buses using St Margaret’s Bus Station is due to begin next week.